In Response to My Rep's Email: "Reviewing The Last Week"

Dear Congressman Gibson,

Thank you for your e-newsletter. It's a shame that you have chosen to become a partisan hack on this issue, when you've generally seemed to act in the interests of your constituents in the past.

Would you refuse to write a check for your children's tuition or the mortgage payment unless your wife delayed a visit to the in-laws, or agreed to schedule a visit to your family at the same time? Of course not: These are unrelated issues, and it would be irresponsible of you to hurt the very people you claimed to care about by abdicating your basic responsibilities to them. And then to send your kids a note blaming your wife? Reprehensible.

Fix health care through legislation intended to do so: If you have better ideas, make the case for them. Everyone wants better answers!  But this is taking-the-ball-and-going-home, pouting-in-the-corner behavior.

Grown-ups don't behave like this. America is sick of being "represented" by petulant children.

Pack your bags and tune up your resume: If you expect to be trusted with this job again, you're going to find yourself in the ranks of the unemployed.

Rest assured mine is one vote you're not getting next time around. I hope beyond hope that a grown-up will run for your office.

Sincerely,
Jon Luning
Dover Plains, NY