An open letter to Ben Cardin, Barbara Mikulski and Steny Hoyer

You three represent me in the Senate and the House of Representatives. I have supported each of you and was once proud to say you represented me and my neighbors in the face of the Republican mismanagement of Iraq.

Today I am ashamed of all of you.

In the last election I spent many hours of my time volunteering on telephone banks for the election of Ben Cardin and Steny Hoyer. Following scripted commentaries that your campaigns wrote I promised my neighbors that a vote for you would bring about a change in the control of Congress away from the Bush Administration's Republican rubber stamp vote. Now I feel like I lied.

I have often written to you, Senator Mikulski, and received responses that made me believe you listened to your constituents. Well, over 60% of us wanted you to only vote for the Supplemental Bill if there was an exit timetable. You sided with the Republicans. Now I can't trust you.

I keep getting requests from the DCCC and the other Democratic support groups begging for money and I no longer have a desire to respond positively to those requests. Not when there is not the support for the position of the majority of your constituents.

You were afraid that you would be blamed by Bush for not supporting the troops. What you foolishly didn't seem to realize was that he would blame you for that anyway, even though you refused to stand up to him and gave him all he asked for. I can admire the Speaker of the House and Senators like Obama, Clinton, Dodd and the others who voted NO and would have withheld funds from an administration with a 32% approval rating.

I will continue to oppose the war, with most of the citizens of this country, but I will have to think twice about supporting the three of you again.

Under The LobsterScope