Mr. President:
At the outset of your administration you went to great lengths to align yourself with one of our nations’ greatest presidents Mr. Abraham Lincoln. You praised Mr. Lincoln in speeches; as well you should, and went as far as retracing his historic train trip stop for stop to his inauguration. I’m sure these things were calculated to give the impression that you honor and admire the former president but the conduct of your office thus far belies that position. You ask congress to vote now and read later after the Stimulus bill is passed. Only after the fact will the country fully know the extent that you have dishonored Mr. Lincoln. How does this contribute to the most open and transparent administration in history? If your administration has nothing to hide then why is it so important to pass this bill without anyone actually reading it? Is it to give your party a case for plausible deniability when the details are finally known and the liberals have established a socialist state without even a debate in either house of Congress? Do you think that will save the Democratic Party?
Mr. Lincoln was a great man and a true statesman. His faith in God, as that of the framers of the United States Constitution, was absolute and it sustained him throughout his lifetime. I would like to refer to a speech Abraham Lincoln gave on August 17, 1858 in Lewistown, Illinois. I will not quote the text here but it is readily available to anyone interested in reading it and I highly recommend it (Google a few words from the enclosed quote). It clearly depicts a man of honor, a man of conscience, a man of character. In this speech he made clear that all human life is sacred and that each life is endowed by our creator with inherent dignity and basic rights such as the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He also makes the point that the framers of the Constitution chose this specific language to show to the world that the concept is universal without regard to time or place. After making an eloquent case for abolishing slavery, he says of the framers ‘In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, degraded, and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity.’
There is no doubt that man was created in the image and likeness of God. God says so in those exact words. How then, is it right to kill human babies for birth control or for scientific research? You with your cabinet and judgeship appointees can’t wait to expand abortion rights and do away with all rights of conscience for health care workers opposed to abortion. Together, you will pave the way to use taxpayer funds to do what is unthinkable for the majority of the American people. I’m not sure how the forcible socialization of the United States will help the Democrats retain their influence once it is known. The special interests they serve cannot by themselves deliver anything like the coalition that you put together in order to be elected. Once your true agenda is seen for what it is that coalition will fall apart and you will be left without support just as president Bush was before you. He failed to do what was right you will succeed in doing what is not right. Neither is in any way justifiable. I will make the prediction that nothing good will come of this.
Ultimately, you control the policies of your cabinet and strongly influence the legislation coming out of Congress during your tenure. The responsibility is yours but the backlash from deceit on this scale will likely damage your party for years to come. The part played by Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic block is well known. These things are nothing other than your real agenda. I wonder how the electorate will feel about a president compromised by his allegiance to special interest groups. Will he be able to govern the land or will he be simply a puppet for the death mongers and those elite who feel that they have the right to force their views on the nation? They cannot work openly through the legislature because they do not have the support of the people. They work instead by getting judges to legislate from the bench which is an unconstitutional abuse of power and a violation of separation of powers. Now, through the largest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people you hope to codify their entire agenda in a single stroke and without a single real debate! Perhaps you were indeed brought to the White House for just such a time as this. You may be the catalyst, the spark that lights the fuse of rebellion and finally brings the nation to the point that it rises up and says enough-there will be no more abomination in the name of tolerance, no more violence and destruction done to the precious freedoms that our forefathers fought so hard to give us! We may return to a state where a man’s worth is not judged by the color of his skin but by the content of his character and the unborn are considered the precious treasures that they are.

Prayerfully,
Donald R. Calder
Donald R. Calder

I think this bill should be called the “Bush cleanup bill”. What a disaster!