Dearest Gaga,

Ya know I love ya, but this is not fair and balanced at all.

If you read the article linked in your blog then you already know that. You are a good writer and a student of history. Of all people, why would you deliberately twist words simply to agitate? What happened to your ability to view both sides of an issue before making a decision? Who or what is influencing you to react instead of think? You are a brilliant thinker…don’t lose that.

You wrote that whole list just to be inflammatory. (You could certainly spice up the front page of the Mullet Wrapper. You would increase circulation exponentially.) You have taken great license. You should be ashamed of yourself, unless you are running for office, and then this type of hyperbole is expected and sadly acceptable. The article you refer to does not include anything like your diatribe…er, I mean list. You have deliberately ignored the article’s statement about this “tax increase” (as you call it) being the nonrenewal of Bush era tax cuts. Sorry, but I could swear you just bitched a blue streak on Facebook (January 9, 2009) about Obama tax cuts. So which is it? Tax cuts are good or tax cuts are not good? How can you have it both ways?

People will jump on this bandwagon, and pretty much any other one you want to put out there that lets them believe that they are victims. People are always anxious to find a scapegoat for problems. The sad fact is that most people will never truly examine the underlying issues, but will take everything you say as gospel truth, then share their (your) viewpoints with friends, and so on and so on, and with every sharing you have less and less fact passed on until the movie “Idiocracy” becomes a documentary rather than a stupid, low budget comedy. If each side is so busy beating its own drum that it never hears what the other side is saying, then what has happened to the “united” in United States of America?

We are hamstrung by all the finger pointing and name calling on all sides. Our country is a mess, and it needs fixing soon. It’s time for people to come together to work toward a solution based on actual facts instead of going off on emotional tangents that certainly generate energy, but do not create any positive movement. It may be time to consider that our Presidents are not deliberately trying to destroy our nation and that if we would come together as Americans, rather than claw each others’ eyes out as Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians, we might make some progress.

You will note that this does not say anything about what I think about the current tax situation, the election in Massachusetts, or the current or previous administrations. Why should anyone care what I think? They need to think for themselves. Read. Listen. Consider. Read the Constitution. Make decisions based on facts, possibilities, objective analysis, and human consequences. Until all those things are considered, no one should express an opinion. I’m not the only one who thinks so.

I’m just sayin’.