Messages to My Congresspeeps, 31 August 2025

[I sent the messages below to my representative and my two senators on 31 August 2025. If past experience is any guide, Tim Burchett will provide an answer that is somewhat responsive to my comment, Marsha Blackburn will provide an answer that is basically a campaign/Trump support speech, and Bill Hagerty may or may not provide a reply at all but it will be very superficial. This is what my tax dollars are paying for. But it’s what I get for living in Tennessee, an extremely conservative, Trump-hugging state. Note the message to their staffers: I hope that those poor souls decide to make a move before the ship sinks.]

To Representative Tim Burchett (R-Tenn):

Before this last Trump term began, you used to appear to me to be a person of principle. I disagreed with your positions more often than not, but I could still respect you because you always did seem to act consistently on the basis of what you believed in.

Now, however, you have become a Trump Tool just like all the other tools in Congress. It is as though you had accepted some higher basis than what you had believed in before. Is it Christian nationalism, or the wish to become an oligarch as a reward for helping the present oligarchs to power, or the confusing of the will of a strongman (Trump) with the will of God, or what? I can’t tell.

What I can see is that you have supported the abandonment of the principles of separation of powers, the rule of law, respect for authority and expertise, and fairness. I can see that you are supporting a very rude, egotistical, and slander-spewing man who has no sense of common decency. I see that you are supporting someone who has a Cabinet meeting in which the main topic seems to be how wonderful, indeed godlike, he is. He has no humility about anything and never expresses any respect for God or His will. Is this someone you should be promoting as a leader, much less a role model for our kids?

As the old song asks, does your conscience ever bother you? I should hope so. I also remind you of what I have communicated to you previously: that you will eventually have to face the judgments of History and Heaven. History will put you among the sellouts and asskissers in Congress today. As to Heaven, I can’t speak for the Deity, but I have to say it is not looking good for you. Please have a come-to-Jesus meeting with, well, Jesus and repent of the grave things you have done in Congress. Go back to being your own man again.

A short note to the staffer who reads this, if anybody actually does read these things: please think about what you are doing by being a staffer to a Trump Tool. Some day Trump will be out and his successors will not have his charisma or whatever Svengali-like power he has over people. I think that the country will right itself and resume its former path, with the Trump people  being completely discredited. Then the Republican congressmen of today will likely be dumped pretty much en masse in the subsequent elections. Those who worked for them will be tarred with the stigma of having worked for Trump (in effect). It may be hard for you to get a good job in government or even in the business world ever again. You might want to think long and hard about leaving before the curtain closes so that you can have some credibility in your future work life.

To Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn):

When you were first elected a senator, it seemed to me that you were just a cat’s-paw for others. Your public pronouncements never seemed to have much substance and you were really bad at explaining your votes. However, as time went on, you seemed to become more your own person and to have legislative interests of your own and positions that you advocated for your own reasons. So we could say you were coming into your own as a legislator.

Now, however, you have become a Trump Tool just like all the other tools in Congress. In fact, you seem to be one of the worst ones since you never seem to express any reservations at all about Trump’s actions, unlike some other Republican congressmen. Why is that? Is it Christian nationalism, or the wish to become an oligarch as a reward for helping the present oligarchs to power, or the confusing of the will of a strongman (Trump) with the will of God, or what? I can’t tell.

What I can see is that you have supported the abandonment of the principles of separation of powers, the rule of law, respect for authority and expertise, and fairness. I can see that you are supporting a very rude, egotistical, and slander-spewing man who has no sense of common decency. I see that you are supporting someone who has a Cabinet meeting in which the main topic seems to be how wonderful, indeed godlike, he is. He has no humility about anything and never expresses any respect for God or His will. Is this someone you should be promoting as a leader, much less a role model for our kids?

As the old song asks, does your conscience ever bother you? I should hope so. I also remind you of what I have communicated to you previously: that you will eventually have to face the judgments of History and Heaven. History will put you among the sellouts and asskissers in Congress today. As to Heaven, I can’t speak for the Deity, but I have to say it is not looking good for you. Please have a come-to-Jesus meeting with, well, Jesus and repent of the grave things you have done in Congress. Go back to being your own person again.

A short note to the staffer who reads this, if anybody actually does read these things: please think about what you are doing by being a staffer to a Trump Tool. Some day Trump will be out and his successors will not have his charisma or whatever Svengali-like power he has over people. I think that the country will right itself and resume its former path, with the Trump people  being completely discredited. Then the Republican congressmen of today will likely be dumped pretty much en masse in the subsequent elections. Those who worked for them will be tarred with the stigma of having worked for Trump (in effect). It may be hard for you to get a good job in government or even in the business world ever again. You might want to think long and hard about leaving before the curtain closes so that you can have some credibility in your future work life.

To Senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn):

As a senator, you have always seemed to me to be a nonentity. Your public pronouncements are never substantive and you don’t really explain your votes.

However, it is worse since you have become a Trump Tool just like all the other tools in Congress. In fact, you seem to be one of the worst ones since you never seem to express any reservations at all about Trump’s actions, unlike some other Republican congressmen. Why is that? Is it Christian nationalism, or the wish to become an oligarch as a reward for helping the present oligarchs to power, or the confusing of the will of a strongman (Trump) with the will of God, or what? I can’t tell.

What I can see is that you have supported the abandonment of the principles of separation of powers, the rule of law, respect for authority and expertise, and fairness. I can see that you are supporting a very rude, egotistical, and slander-spewing man who has no sense of common decency. I see that you are supporting someone who has a Cabinet meeting in which the main topic seems to be how wonderful, indeed godlike, he is. He has no humility about anything and never expresses any respect for God or His will. Is this someone you should be promoting as a leader, much less a role model for our kids?

As the old song asks, does your conscience ever bother you? I should hope so. I also remind you of what I have communicated to you previously: that you will eventually have to face the judgments of History and Heaven. History will put you among the sellouts and asskissers in Congress today. As to Heaven, I can’t speak for the Deity, but I have to say it is not looking good for you. Please have a come-to-Jesus meeting with, well, Jesus and repent of the grave things you have done in Congress. Go back to being your own person again.

A short note to the staffer who reads this, if anybody actually does read these things: please think about what you are doing by being a staffer to a Trump Tool. Some day Trump will be out and his successors will not have his charisma or whatever Svengali-like power he has over people. I think that the country will right itself and resume its former path, with the Trump people  being completely discredited. Then the Republican congressmen of today will likely be dumped pretty much en masse in the subsequent elections. Those who worked for them will be tarred with the stigma of having worked for Trump (in effect). It may be hard for you to get a good job in government or even in the business world ever again. You might want to think long and hard about leaving before the curtain closes so that you can have some credibility in your future work life.