Richard Shelby is a disgrace to this nation and Alabama and the people who keep electing him but that doesn’t seem to matter. He embodies all thats wrong with the Congress and the Senate. It’s bad enough that he wants to undermine our new president but don’t let that make us forget his past. He has been for almost everything that has ruined this Country and against everything that might have done us some good. We could blame ideology for him but that means he would have to be considered to have intelligent differing ideas on things. I have watched him for years and never saw anything intelligent about the man. He is an emty suit with a big mouth attached that thinks he knows it all.

I hope you are so ashamed of yourself that you will finally pack your bags and slink out of Washington—you who were sent to Washington and the lush life by Democrats and then allowed yourself to be publicly used by Grinch on the Capitol steps as if he was showing off a prize jackass when you turned your back on the people and party who sent you there. A person of integrity would have served out the term representing the people who elected him. By the way, how did they thank you for your betrayal—did I not hear that you were under a lengthy investigation for allegedly leaking some sort of information?

How low can you stoop? We at last have an intelligent, fine President in Barack Obama, and you can only embarrass yourself and Alabama by once again being used by your party’s line. This country is in deep trouble thanks mainly to malfeasance, and it would behoove you to lend whatever ideas you have to HELP save the country instead of mocking people who are trying to pull us all back from the edge. Perhaps there is only one answer: Ridicule, hate, divisiveness and other negativities are all people of your ilk have to offer. It is time for you to get out of the way, if you are not going to lead or follow.

Embarrassed once again by an Alabamian whose salary we pay, I am.

Evelyn Rivers
Oneonta, Alabama