To the editor:

The depth of my disdain and disgust for reality shows has never been accurately plumbed, but it is fair to say that it is deep. A silver lining is that these TV shows have little effect on my life.

This is sadly far from the case with the “reality show” currently on in Washington. In both venues I see the same whacked-out, Looney-Toon characters, but the Washington oddballs would now throw us into a financial crisis 10 times worse than we have just crawled out of (by failing to fund the governments debts). This is a commonplace legislative move passed without drama over 70 times since Richard Nixon.

I don’t like being threatened. It makes me angry. I am so mad now I could spit! Every six months, I’ve been threatened by these elected jokers in Washington who think the best thing we can do is to kick the country in the rear over and over again. This time it would be more like slitting our wrist!

Note to Washington: Sit down! Shut up! Do your job, and let me get back to a good book! God help us!