A letter to Senator Boxer

I thought that Senator Barbara Boxer should know how important she is to the Democrats at this juncture. As all of the ass-kissing of Condoleezza (how DO you spell that??) Rice has proceeded, she has been the only speed bump to this express confirmation. "Please don't try to impugn my integrity." What integrity, Condi? Where? So Senator Boxer deserves our thanks and our support. She may be the last friend we have left.

Senator Boxer,
As an American I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being just about the only person in the Democratic party to stand up to the fraud and deceit perpetrated on the American people by our current administrations. I watched the Ohio vote hearings, where you and representative Tubbs-Jones made empassioned pleas for justice and fairness. I was mystified that while others Democrat Senators made statements, they did not vote? Why the disunity? What were they afraid of? Their non-vote made the Democrats again seem fractured and spineless.
As a Washingtonian, I was embarrassed that my own Senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, made no move to support your efforts. It is high time that the Democrats stood up to the GOP bullying. Why did John Kerry wait until Martin Luther King day to say anything about evidence of inconsistency and fraud in Ohio? I came back to the Democrats after moving to the left in support of Ralph Nader in 1996 and 2000. But only because I feared the damage that another four years of Bush would reap. I'll say the same thing to you that I said to Cantwell and Murray, and perhaps you can start this debate within the party: I don't want people representing me who are willing to back down when core values are at stake. That means voting. That means education (my wife and I are both public school teachers). That means health care. That means a foreign policy of cooperation, not confrontation.
We reap what we sow, and if the Democrats sow the seeds of frailty, indecision, and compromise, then I will move back to being a third party voter, and I won't be the only one. Democratic politicians must not think that fear of the GOP will secure their votes. I guarantee it won't, because many of us feel that our vote is being squandered by ineffectual party leadership. By all rights we should have won this last election, but still Democrats call for Terry McAuliffe's reelection as DNC chair.
So, Senator Boxer, I thank you for your tenacity, for your openness, honesty, heart, backbone, and desire to see this country set right (not THAT kind of right) again. However, please let your colleagues know to get on board with this movement. History is repeating itself while we watch and we may be reliving Germany circa 1935 if we're not careful.
Peace,
Jason Call