An Open Letter to the Republican Controlled Congress

AN OPEN LETTER TO A REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED-CONGRESS

I must admit, Donald Trump's first year in office was crazier than I could have ever imagined.

• He attacked a debate moderator by insinuating that her tough questions were the result of her menstrual cycle.
• He boasted "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.”
• He mocked a disabled reporter on camera, then denied it.
• He defended Nazis in Charlottesville.
• He engaged in nuclear brinkmanship on Twitter.
• He fired James Comey to try and bury the investigation into Russia’s meddling in our election (and keep his friends and family out of prison).
• He's tearing immigrant families apart to appease the racist deplorables who elected him.
• He has cozied up to some of the country’s hardest line gay- and transgender bashers.
• He attacked a Muslim Gold Star family, insinuating that Khizr Khan, whose son died in Iraq, was a terrorist sympathizer.
• He re-tweeted utterly bogus claims that black people were responsible for 80% of the murders of whites.
• He’s directed government funds to his own hotels and businesses at every opportunity.

During Trump’s campaign and first year in office, it became increasingly clear from his remarks, often repeated over and over again, that he was a racist and a divider, not a uniter.

And if that wasn’t enough, Trump was recorded boasting before his campaign how he would go around grabbing women by their genitalia.

Trumps erratic behavior, during his campaign town hall meetings and television interviews, was largely ignored by the media, but among professional behaviorists, his erratic behavior was reminiscent of anti-social and narcissistic personality disorders.

More troubling, however, is how a large group of Republicans, having taken an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution” and “faithfully discharge the duties of the office” elected to, have willingly chosen to ignore Trump’s racist behavior, mental instability, and violation of not only our laws, but our Constitution.

Why? Why is it that the majority of Republicans have been willing to prostitute themselves to the highest bidder? The Wall Street Journal, normally a conservative member of the press, reports that “Charles Koch and his brother David spent millions of dollars to get the tax law passed and are spending millions more on a public relations campaign attempting to boost support for the law.” It was also reported, according to a recent campaign donor report, that “Speaker of the House Paul Ryan collected nearly $500,000 in campaign contributions from billionaire energy mogul Charles Koch and his wife, just days after the House passed its version of the federal tax law slashing corporate tax rates.”

Perhaps the Republicans, who control both houses of Congress, should consider the depth of their actions. If Trump is charged for high crimes of any sort, they might find themselves charged for their outright efforts to protect him.

Trump wants to build a wall along our southern border, and he is using DACA as a bargaining chip. NO WALL, NO DACA. The Republicans should pass a veto proof law stating that any minor brought here illegally is automatically granted citizenship upon graduation from high school. Those currently enrolled in college would be granted citizenship retroactively to the date they graduated from high school. Make it a clean bill. Agree that should Trump veto the bill, Congress will overturn his veto. Do basically the same with CHIP, except make it permanent until such time as we achieve universal health care.

CBS and POLITICO report “Support for allowing these immigrants to remain in the U.S. spans across party lines: 84 percent of Democrats, 74 percent of independents and 69 percent of Republicans think they should stay.” The question is whether the Republicans will stand up to Trump? Will they do the right thing and stop holding innocent children hostage?

If the Republicans continued to turn a blind eye to Trump’s erratic-behavior and chaos he creates daily, innocent children will suffer and our democratic-republic will devolve into a Kakistocracy, if we are not already there.