Congressperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

January 17, 2009

Congressperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
10100 Pembroke Pines Boulevard
Pembroke Pines, Florida 33026

RE: What to do.

My dear Congressperson,

In your interview with Gregory Lewis in the Sun Sentinel on January 15 featuring Florida Firsts – you being the first Jewish Congresswoman from Florida - you say

“Jews are less than 2% of the population in this nation.”

I have heard you defending Affirmative Action many times. I marvel at the ability of modern American Liberals, you of course being the paradigmatic template for that venomous species [perhaps poster girl might be a better way of saying in case there are people reading this who did not go to private school] to reconcile competing ideas. I have heard you say that while goals are not quotas if they don’t act like quotas they will become quotas until we can make them goals again. You would always end by saying “Mend it, don’t end it.” Meantime, a man with a badge and gun and the full force of the Law will visit you and ask why the numbers don’t jive.

If “Jews are less than 2% of the population in this nation” it can be deduced that Jewish women are less than 1% of the population. Blacks in America are a bit more than 12% of the population. I place the number of Black women at a bit more than 6%. That means that the goal for members of Congress who are Black females should be 6 times that of Jewish women. While it may be literally impossible for you to do it it is a classic case of being hoist on your own petard.

Since religious overtones were introduced by you I daresay the Christian thing for you to do would be to resign you seat and begin to campaign for a Black woman to replace you.

The name Miriam Oliphant leaps to mind. Don’t worry about where she lives. Residency laws don’t count for modern American Liberals in Florida. God’s Holy Trousers but we have a Congressman, Toad Wexler, who doesn’t even live in the state.

Further on in your interview you say “it will be nice to have a regular dad in the White House”. Again, it would not be an offense to logic to assume that you believe that George Bush was not a regular dad.

I am not sure what the criteria are for “regular dad” status. I do know that he sent his daughters to Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. Westlake High School is a public school.

“Regular dad” Obama is sending his two daughters to schools, private schools, private grammar schools where they will be day students, where the combined tuition is almost $60,000. I think that’s a neighborhood that most “regular” dads would be unable to afford.

Would it not have been a true sign of change if he had sent his daughters to the nearest public school in Washington, D.C.? No school district in the United States spends more per student than Washington, D.C. Isn’t that the criterion that modern American Liberals most often use to rate schools? In fact, I have seen you on TV hammering Republicans over the amount spent per child in Florida and how if we could just spend more and get rid of the FCATs our students would win not just Merit Scholarships but Nobel Prizes. Think of it; just a few dollars more and the solution to Global Warming/Global Cooling is probably lurking in Dillard High School. Plus, as a serendipity, oodles of good paying green jobs will be created. Talk about win/win!

Don’t you agree that the children of all elected officials, particularly those officials who hector the public on the need to spend more money on public education, should attend the public school nearest to them? If busing is required to make sure that a “goal” doesn’t become a “quota”, don’t you agree that the first kids on the bus should be those of said officials?

That would be a “change”, wouldn’t it?

That would be another “Florida First”, wouldn’t it?