An open letter to Utah Sen. Mike Lee
By Ann Cannon | Tribune Columnist
Dear Senator Mike Lee,
I would like to give you a report on what my husband and I did NOT do this past weekend. We did NOT go to The Great Basin National Park, a trip we’ve been planning since last spring.
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Why didn’t we go? Because the Great Basin National Park was not open for business.
OK. I can already hear you tell me there’s blah blah blah plenty of yadda yadda yadda blame to blah blah blah go around. Dude! I get it! I read a lot of news stories! Also, I listen to Fox News in the afternoon and MSNBC in the morning, just so I can sample the Big Crazy on both sides. Staying informed is MY JOB — just like your job is figuring out how to solve problems, not create them.
You wanna know what my personal conclusion is after all my reading and listening? You and your new bff, Ted Cruz, own a fair share of the blame for the current shutdown. Certain members of the GOP agree with me. They feel like your grandstanding has painted them into an impossible corner. And if I were your ever-loving godmother, which I am certainly old enough to be, I would take all y’all out behind my granddaddy’s woodshed and share a super-sized can of whoopass with the pair of you for anointing yourselves to be Showboaters-in-Chief.
Here’s the deal. My husband and I were merely inconvenienced this past weekend. The owners of motels and cafes and gift shops who depend on people like my husband and me to keep them afloat, on the other hand, were not. Am I making myself clear?
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