That ain't burning bridges, per se . . . it's more along the lines of calling in a battalion eight of eight-inch artillery on the bridge.
Then transmitting, "Repeat."
You know, actually franksolich once wrote a letter to a former employer, David Hunter.
It was after I'd returned from the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants, in the late 1990s, about seven years after the two of us had parted ways--he wanted me to fire someone and I refused, so he fired me.
The whole story's in the Sandhills forum here; I'm sure most remember it.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,30787.0.htmlAnyway, once back in the United States, I wrote him a sincere letter expressing my gratitude for having had the chance to work for him (I lasted four years, four times longer than all four of my predecessors put together), because it toughened me up for enduring the socialist paradises.
He was flattered, but a couple of years later alas this top Democrat put the barrel of a gun into his mouth and pulled the trigger.