I am extremely dissatisfied, dismayed, disgusted, and appalled with your treatment of Newt Gingrich. I have waited this long to respond to your again placing him as your leader due to my extreme anger that people in your positions once again place yourselves above the laws of the land and civilized Mankind.

It is inconceivable to me that could select Gingrich as the best man to represent your organization and the American people as House Speaker.

Do you not realize placing him as your leader tells not only the American people but the world, you consider Gingrich's acts as perfectly acceptable. We are talking of a man who has admitted to probable criminal acts and has lied consistently.

This then means you must be exactly like him with the same character and the same lack of integrity. Otherwise, why would you have him as the House Speaker?

Personally, the best person to represent my value system is a person of high integrity, a person who has never committed any felony or misdeamenor, or even been suspected of doing so.

It is not a person who lacks in integrity and has most probably committed several convictable felonies had you conducted a proper criminal investigation.

We wish for other peoples on Earth to trust us, to believe in our statements during negotiations for world peace. How can you possibly believe a person such as Gingrich enhances that goal?

Haven't you instead told all others that Americans believe in lying and doing anything against society we can get away with? Have not you told others, including our own young people, lying, cheating, and committing other crimes, does pay?

I suspect many of you made your decision to vote for Gingrich based on party politics, a thoroughly disgusting and inappropriate means of deciding your vote on any issue. You, however, have a responsibility to the people of this nation, the responsibility of making decisions based on the most good for the majority of the people within the confines of our family values and legal system.

It is a responsibility you apparently take lightly even though you assumed it the instant you placed yourself on the ballot as a candidate for the first public office you ran for and even though you preach family values every round of campaigning.

Perhaps you should have a public reading of our constitution and the legislated means by which this country and our people are governed.

You will NOT read public servants, public employees such as yourselves, have the responsibility to serve their own interests or the interests of the party they are affiliated with.

You are in your office to serve the best interests of the majority of the people in this nation with focus on your own constituency, not any special interest groups, including your own party.

It is also your duty and your responsibility to assure the laws of the land are obeyed by congressman exactly the same as every American citizen. Where in the constititution or any bylaws have you read that it is okay to do as you wish, even if against the mores, morals, and written laws of our nation?

Your positions do not, and I repeat, do not give you the right to violate any law, not even traffic laws. You do not have the right to act against society for any reason, however noble you might believe yourselves and your actions to be. You are citizens and must obey all laws, written or otherwise, that govern us all.

What if all Americans behaved as you people seem to think you have the right to behave? What if we all lied, cheated, committed tax fraud, embezzled, and served only ourselves? Isn't that an anarchy, not a democracy? Wouldn't we have complete chaos?

Actually, we do, in many senses, have chaos and the focal point seems to be Washington, D.C. It is the home of self-serving people, people who use their power and positions for self gain regardless of the consequences to the rest of the nation.

Deny that all you wish but as long as Gingrich-types are allowed to keep their positions, rewarded, so to speak, for their misdeeds as he has been, your denials will fall on deaf ears.

You wonder why the public doesn't trust politicians? My God, look in the mirror at your own actions, at the dealings you have been involved in, your own party politics and self-serving goals and wonder no more.

You wonder why so many peoples on Earth don't trust Americans. Again, look in the mirror of misdeeds and wonder no more. You represent the American people and look at how you behave. Or, should I say, misbehave?

The best action the public could take is to rid Washington of every one of you and start over with people of integrity, with people who don't give a damn about party politics, people who realize their responsibility is to serve the wants of the majority of the American people, not special interest groups.

I would beg of you to do the right thing and conduct a criminal investigation into Gingrich's activities but you are no more likely to do that than you are to represent only the people, not your party or special interest groups.

Afterall, you might cut your own purse strings and I'm sure you will avoid that like the plague. Also, should you push for a proper investigation, it might mushroom into your own activities.

One day the people of this nation are going to rise up and demand better from their representatives in Washington, whether they be in the House, the Senate, or the White House. Your actions in the past year have caused me to attempt becoming involved after ignoring politics for nearly a half a century and it is going to happen with others.

Truth and justice might, for once, begin prevailing with people of your character not being acceptable choices for public office. I state, "for once", as I don't believe it has ever been so. Should integrity ever dominate our government (meaning you people), we will quite possibly for the first time in our history live in a Republic in every sense of the word.

Keep on keeping on as you have been. Get all you can while you can because the days of politicians of old, of politicans abusing their offices and, thus, the American people, are numbered.

Until that time, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, please behave as mature adults, that is, adults who assume the responsibilities you have been elected to assume.

Quit behaving much as immature, irresponsible children do who have lacked guidance and socialized direction, who strive only to satisfy their own self-centered gravings.

And, remember, you represent our people to the nations of the world even though your behaviors in the past are not what many of us consider acceptable and have not been of a nature which results in faith in government and justice.

Your behaviors consistently weaken the fibers of this nation, the idealisms that have bound us together as a society. Perhaps that has as much to do with crime, educatonal drop-outs rates and illiteracy, voter apathy, and the public's lack of trust in the government as any other causal relationship that has been considered.

In other words, Representatives, behave with integrity and direct your energies to governing for the most good for the most people.

Observe the laws of this land, however trite they may seem to you, and assure you do not violate any. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and, due to your positions, your observance of all laws is critical if an aura of trust is to exist.

Have a good day and try for one filled with integrity and national accomplishment.