This is an e-mail I just sent my Congressman, Chet Edwards of District 17 (Texas)

The proposed bill on the environment that is being prepared for voting by the House, the Waxman-Markey Bill, is just another stab at the heart of the American economy by folks that don’t understand that we need a little stability to get the economy going again. The economy is still stalled by lack of faith in you guys in Washington, to put it plainly. The passage of this bill and the proposals being put out on health care bill do nothing for the majority of us but make our life more difficult regardless of the rationalizations that are put out by Congress and this Administration. The dishonesty in presenting these bills tells me either you guys just don’t care, or you think we are stupid dolts, or that the funding from your Party’s respective Congressional Campaign Committees trumps the need to protect us, the productive segments of our nation.

It is difficult to write with civility when so much is at stake. To say I am totally angry at Congress and at this Administration is a gross understatement. Physicians have a wise motto — “First do no harm.” I wish it applied to government. You yourself can review what you all have done in haste to “solve problems” and if you are honest with yourself, it has achieved little of what was offered as explanations for passage of such terrible bills. Jobs have not been saved. Shovel-ready projects aren’t. Benefits to private enterprise have been few and far in between. Waste, corruption (Acorn, AmeriCorps, etc.) are endemic, and now, Waxman and his unseasoned staffers have persuaded you to support his attack on us. Look at California. It breeds folks like him. And see what they have done to California. And by endorsing passage of this environmental bill, you endorse his and his ilk’s ruination of the rest of us.

Serious question now; How do we get you guys to stop this madness?