These People Are Not Your Friends

In the last two weeks leading up to the mid-term elections, over $250 million will be spent on attack ads to influence a handful of critical house and senate races. The monies are coming from corporate accounts that have no reporting requirements due to the Supreme Court's decision earlier this year.

These people are not your friends. They want to tap your anger and frustration for their own gain. Do NOT let this happen.

Certainly you're mad. So am I. But look at the things this congress did in less than two years:

They passed health care bill that will give insurance to millions of individuals and families who could not get it. Even Bill Clinton could not get that done.

They passed legislation to try to fix the collapsing financial system.

I agree the health care bill is not perfect but most provisions take years to go into effect, so there is time to amend it, not toss it. It is a baseline from which we can build.

The financial system collapsed because the legislation that kept the system whole was dismantled by a number of administrations, from Reagan to the first Bus, to Clinton and the second Bush. This congress took steps under President Obama to correct the sins of the past. Their work was, again, not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction, and they need time to make it better.

Your frustrated -- so am I. You want jobs to come back -- so do I. But Obama did not make this mess and we need to give him time to fix things. The people who are backing Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharon Angle in Nevada, Rand Paul in Kentucky and Carl Palladino in New York are after more than those seats. The want to disrupt government so they can control the issues that most affect their interests. They are not concerned with your rights, or mine.

Be careful who you vote for. This time it's really dangerous. The people spending this $250 million are not your friends and they certainly don't have your best interests at heart. This is not the time to undermine the progress of the last 18 months.