Warranted Outrage toward Washington from a Brilliant Friend

David R. Wright is a retired professor from Clarion University in Pennsylvania.  He also served twenty years as a Representative in the Pennsylvania legislature.  He is retired from that position as well.  He was a primary player in the revision of Pennsylvania's law relating to telecommunication. The legislation served as one of the guiding documents when the U.S. telecommunication act was passed during the Clinton administration.  Dr. Wright was invited to the signing of the federal legislation by President Bill Clinton.  Wright was actively involved in providing Pennsylvania legislative committee leadership on issues related to education, utilities, and more.  His oldest son Douglas was tragically killed by a drunk driver. Douglas Wright was posthumously recognized as the Outstanding Commonwealth Attorney in Kentucky by his colleagues serving as prosecutors in Kentucky.  He has a younger son who works in the wireless telecommunication industry. David Wright is a superb teacher, lawmaker, consultant, husband, father, friend to me and many others, and a man of high ethics.  His father and two brothers were successful pastors in Missouri and Arkansas.  He grew up taught that his nation was a light shining in the darkness.  He still believes it can be and should be.  His words below address a current needless shadow dimming that light that brings pain.  Now in his mid seventies, he has always been and is an avid, eclectic reader.  He studied Journalism at the University of Missouri and shifted his graduate work done on the Masters level to more general communication theory as he completed a PhD  at Ohio University.  All of this is to say he brings wisdom, tolerance, and forbearance to the ways of the world and has been and is now dedicated to making it a more fit world in which to live. Today, July 24, 2011, he e-mailed me a spontaneous outcry of his heart that I thought succinctly captured the essence and mood of many examining  the shameful display going on in Washington.  I think it is worth a read by as many as possible.  His words follow:

"I'm angry.  Our present situation is not Katrina. It is not Joplin after a tornado.  It is not Oslo.  The present crisis is man made by people who should be selling shoes.  Regardless of the outcome,  the stalemate proves once again the Republicans cannot govern and Democrats are impotent even when they have the votes.
 
This is no longer a political quarrel between two factions jockeying for position and power.  It strikes at every man, woman, and child in the United States of America.  It threatens to decimate portfolio holdings for everybody who has invested in the market.  It threatens to make the deficit even worse by raising interest rates so that our debt is ever greater.  It means that middle class folks with variable mortgage rates will see their payment increase.  And for every .5 percent increase in interest rates we lose 600,000 jobs.
 
Our local Congressman is a talking-point spouting parrot; if I had all the facts about his voting record and the pledges he has signed I would write an op-ed piece with the opening sentence: "Where is GT?"  His name is Glen Thompson but likes to go by GT. 
 
All the focus now is on the Congressional leaders.  Some heat should be put on the sycophants who comprise the Obstinate Right.
 
The perfidious posturing politicians have now made it personal.  I'm ready to man the barricades.
 
Other than that, I have no strong feelings about it."

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They have gov. healthcare. 4 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii http://bit.ly/fhk8pM You just can't beat heartless stupidity for the disproportionate pain it can produce--in others. 4 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii http://bit.ly/eQwI9O WI Retirement inquiries come at record pace. Who wants to work for Scooter if a choice is available? 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii http://bit.ly/ik15J0 Congressman Obey had good company! Firemen. Koch brothers could call Gov. and be escorted via the tunnel. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii http://bit.ly/dMjzOw Retired WI Congressman David Obey denied access to WI Capitol. Real classy people in charge. So sorry. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii I wonder if Scooter II and Republican lawmakers would give local control of their salaries, benefits, and perks, to local group? 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Wisconsin Republican state senators outwit Wisconsin taxpayers and pick up paychecks. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Under VP Cheney-Scooter Libby. Now WI under gov.--Scooter Walker. One was charged, replaced. Scooter II can be replaced. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii I wonder if we might have Republican leadership attend anti-bullying programs before elementary schools are closed. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii BREAKING NEWS: Republicans announce debut of new perfume. Eau de NoSlob. Rep.s who wear it stink but it is harder to tell. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Republicans only deliver pain. Let's keep them out of the delivery room in the next election cycle. Others do the labor anyway. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii BREAKING NEWS Republicans want labor pains--for others. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Some people meet & pray. Republican legislatures, governors, and their big $ masters have meetings where they prey. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii http://bit.ly/fTUE5b Watch lemmings (Rep. Tea Party Symbol). They will "over reach" and disappear over the cliff of history. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Lemmings are good symbol for Tea Party. They hysterically run over the cliff when a group moves far from center of population. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Sen. Grothman and other WI Republicans demand Libyan rebels go home, shower, spruce up, return to Tripoli. No SLOBS allowed. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii WI# @cyaiii What triggers impulse to reverse peristalsis? Republicans in solely self serving discourse. Grothman and company--PUKE, 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii WI# @cyaiii What triggers impulse to reverse peristalsis? Republicans in compassionless sanctimony. Grothman and company--PUKE, 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii What makes a 70 year old peaceful non-union retiree want to walk a picket line? Republicans in compassionless sanctimony. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Grothman, they are SLOBS huh? Heart? Brain? You may be missing another organ or so but those two are enough to warrant recall. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii # WI @cyaiii Sen.Grothman, your tie, smell, smirk, aloofness, sensibilities besmirched don't make you human. Heart and brain required. 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii WI @cyaiii So, Sen. Grothman, protestors away from home for days are SLOBS? Wonder if Gandhi wore deodorant and perfume? How about Jesus? 3 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Supreme Court rules Westboro Church screaming repulsive slogans at dead vets funerals OK. Voice about WI budgets must be OK! 2 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii "Praise the pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just." Stand tall in WI! 2 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Public employees can take the cuts to help deficit reduction--not us for God's sakes. Sincerely, Koch Industries, big oil, big$. 1 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii @ @USRealityCheck @cyaiii Surprising behavior for Republican lawmakers. Yes indeed. Stunning! 1 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Courts have not yet faced Walker's over reach generally. That scrutiny will come. "Judge orders Capitol building reopened" WSJ 1 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Oh Gov., tough becoming a parody of dumb ambition on the national stage. Sorry for your present and future shame--not fame. 1 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii The WI King Walker union busting, education wrecking, budget presented at 4 pm today. 1 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Arghh, Gov. Joke Walker. Many must cry before the future laughs begin. I feel sadness for so many WI families. 1 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Ahh, Monarch wanna be Walker, a new but fleeting "leadership" for longer comedic fodder. 1 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii WI @cyaiii http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/BSW_POLL_PRESS_RELEASE_FEB_17___2011.pdf Poll data re: WI Gov. policies. 1 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii @cyaiii WI 2 to 1 WI voters disagree with Walker's policies or say he has gone too far. 2 of 2 Koch brothers support him. Who guides gov? 1 Mar Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii Threats not insight. Power for a few over "music" of the many. Do you not hear the people sing?http://bit.ly/fNXjK7 Sad! 28 Feb Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii #WI @cyaiii When officials are unwilling to listen or face opponents of a policy, force becomes their strategy.http://bit.ly/fNXjK7 28 Feb Favorite Reply Delete » cyaiii cyaiii @cyaiii #WI Gov.,you are a Baptist preacher's kid. 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