Earlier today I wrote Junior Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and thanked him for valiantly standing up to the decayed Washington DC ambiance that currently showcases with pride on a daily basis. Sen. Bennet headed a very matter of fact letter written to Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, who has become somewhat of a buffoon in recent months due to the failure-to-launch escapade that was health care reform. This letter called for Maj. Leader Reid to pass the public health insurance option under “Reconciliation” (I really don’t want to explain what that means… Click here for help; I wrote the section on The Byrd Rule… Just a little harmless self-fellation.) If this were to happen the democrats would only need a simple majority to pass the highly contested public option… Suck on that Joe Lieberman!
Here is my letter in it’s entirety, the only omitted information is some personal items that I don’t want all of the internet to have access to:
Sen. Michael Bennet:
I am not one for penning a long overly emotional diatribe, so I will keep this short and sweet. Thank you for standing up for me by writing Sen. Reid, which called on him to pass the public option via reconciliation. I am a junior at California State University at Monterey Bay, and earlier this year I lost my employee provided health insurance due to a massive cut in hours. I suffer from (insert disease here)*, without health insurance I now pay roughly (insert number here)* a month out of pocket in medication other medical expenses. As I'm sure you can remember back to your college years, it is not known as a time where cash is plentiful. I have now maxed out all credit cards and can no longer make my monthly payments. Creditors are beginning to call me on a daily basis and are threatening to garnish what little wages I earn. A month into this semester and I cannot afford to pay for my textbooks; hoping to attend law school upon completing my bachelors degree my GPA is tremendously important. Without text books I am put at a huge disadvantage and I am growing increasingly afraid that my dreams of law school will be just that… Dreams. Well it appears that this letter has become exactly what I told you I didn’t want it to be, apologies all around. Please excuse the pseudo stream of conscious tone this letter has taken, I have a large test tomorrow and unfortunately without a textbook I am at the mercy of the library and their limited hours… Wish me luck.
Thank you,
Christopher R*****
*Omitted for security
