CELEBRATION?

December 2, 2017

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,

101 Main Street #380

Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Dear Congressman.

Re: Celebration?

I trust we will not be exposed to the unseemly spectacle of a Republican end-zone celebration on the passage of its unconscionable tax bill through the senate—though I suspect we will. Perhaps, since it’s a weekend, no one will notice. A bill of such transparent and cynical duplicity deserves no celebration on the part of those who rammed it through at dead of night, allowing no time nor space for discussion or argument, and with no consideration of the wishes of the people they are supposed to serve.

I believe in karma—the Buddhist principle of cause and effect: “whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.” This ill-conceived and bad faith action on the part of Republican lawmakers will not go unpunished, whether in the predictable economic fallout—several decades of trickle-down have failed to demonstrate the validity of this right-wing fantasy—or in next year’s elections.

This “Christmas gift to the middle class,” as Trump has absurdly called it, is a mockery of everything we consider fair and just. We all know that it’s a gift to the likes of Donald Trump. That you have chosen to support it casts shame on you.

Respectfully,

Peter Clothier, Ph.D.