Dear Politican,
The global warming is piled up outside my home and I'm relishing the warmth inside. When I walked our dog Zach, this morning, it was around 20o and the driving wind created more snow drifts. Zach loves to stick his nose in the white fluff and sniff for whatever dogs sniff for. I've shoveled more snow this year than I have in quite a while and I live in a gated senior community where contractors shovel out our homes. The questions asked as we walk around the neighborhood are generally related to Al Gore and his far-fetched "Global Warming" dog and pony show.
Americans are asking other questions about the ideas being bandied about by our elected officials and their appointees. We want to know why this divisive health care issue has brought out the worst in our elected officials. We want to know why, if the 
legislation is so good, senators have to be bribed to vote for it. We wonder who's watching the till and how our grandchildren are going to pay for all that you've borrowed or committed to be spent.
We have the impression that the political tribe is so sequestered from the American public that it has no concepts about citizens' daily challenges and doubts about the future. You folks get good salaries and perks that are far removed from the average American. You get the red carpet treatment when you travel – without regard for your carbon footprints – while the rest of us struggle. If the President wants to swim, the citizens in
When we peacefully assemble and petition the government, we're called "astroturf" and "unruly mobs". When we ask questions, we're ignored or sent generic answers from a database of responses.
At the beginning of this new year, I encourage you to remember your roots and dreams and aspirations and ask yourself if the power that you've acquired has led to a distance from those who elected you and a feeling of invincibility typical of our teenagers. I encourage you to do what Hillary did – take a listening tour to hear what the people think.
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
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