To the editor: What issues me probably the most in regards to the struggle for speaker of the Home is that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) is outwardly prepared to provide the far-right hardliners no matter they need so he will be speaker.
Allow us to not overlook that if, God forbid, one thing occurs to the president and the vp, the speaker is subsequent in line. Do we actually need somebody working the nation who’s prepared to be blackmailed to make it into workplace?
Republicans had higher take a superb laborious take a look at the place that is going, as a result of if these hardliners achieve extra energy, then democracy as we all know it’s in bother. Nobody prepared to make these sorts of offers must be speaker.
Joyce Jacoby, Los Angeles
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To the editor: It’s laborious to pinpoint the precise second the wheels got here off the Republican Occasion. Many suppose it was the invasion of Iraq. No political get together stays targeted whereas defending such a murderous mistake.
Events change. The GOP is former President Trump’s get together now, however it was as soon as the get together of the president who freed the slaves. After the descendants of freed slaves struggled for and gained the best to vote, they registered Democratic, inflicting rural and Southern whites to change events. They introduced alongside gun tradition, fundamentalist faith and racism.
Our authorities wants two reliable political events. We want sturdy Democrats to push us to do the best factor. We want targeted conservatives to counter their rapturous enthusiasm so we stay rich sufficient to do the best factor.
The Republican Occasion shall be again.
Merle Borg, San Diego
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To the editor: After the 1994 midterm victory for congressional Republicans, then-Rep. Newt Gingrich proclaimed:
“On every part on which we will discover settlement, I’ll cooperate. On these issues which might be on the core of our contract, on these issues that are on the core of our philosophy and on these issues the place we consider we signify the overwhelming majority of People, there shall be no compromise. So let me draw the excellence: Cooperation, sure; compromise, no.”
Following the road via the Trump presidency and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), we now discover ourselves on the ground of the Home of Representatives.
Joseph Ferreri, Los Angeles
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To the editor: You reap what you sow, Rep. McCarthy.
You fostered and inspired the Republican Congress we now have by contorting your self into knots to attraction to the perimeter parts. You bought your soul and operated and not using a ethical or moral compass in a Faustian cut price to turn out to be speaker.
Sadly, the “Make America Nice Once more” representatives you aided and abetted didn’t come to Washington to manipulate; they got here to burn the home down.
Robert Pease, Yorba Linda
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To the editor: The impression of the current votes for a brand new speaker extends far past one politician’s dream. Contemplate these sensible implications of a leaderless, nonfunctioning Home of Representatives.
First, members-elect and their staffs can not occupy their workplaces; second, nobody, Democrat or Republican, will obtain their paychecks; and third, if there may be a world disaster, the Home can not debate or approve how the Senate and White Home react.
The American citizens voted final November for a return to normalcy. What we’re witnessing now’s chaos. That by no means will be thought-about regular.
Denny Freidenrich, Laguna Seashore
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To the editor: Pundits preserve referring to McCarthy’s GOP opponents as “conservatives.” They aren’t conservative. The actual conservatives within the Republican-controlled Home are voting for McCarthy.
The roughly 20 people obstructing McCarthy hate what this nation has turn out to be and are both reactionaries who need to return to the previous days when white Christian males have been all that mattered or right-wing anarchists whose solely goal is to destroy.
Merrill Ring, Claremont
