A recent letter-writer on your Commentary page provides us more of his constant anti-Trump anger and suggestions of socialist views by awarding his validation of the Democrat House vote for impeachment of our President.
He uses some interesting logic to explain the mechanics of a three-year continuing Democratic effort to overturn a hugely frustrating election — for Democrats — that has gutted the adequate production of Congress.
The writer’s words: “Impeachment is not something the Democrats are doing, it is Congress that is fulfilling its sacred constitutional duty, in spite of the traitorous betrayal of the GOP.”
First, the impeachment vote was absolutely only a Democrat vote.
They will own it.
Second, one needs to reach far to agree that this vote was a “sacred” constitutional duty and somehow a counter to a traitorous betrayal of (or by?) the GOP.
Traitorous betrayal of or by the GOP of what?
What a label.
What a bludgeon.
The author includes a perspective that the “federal government must consider what actions are in the best interests of the people, and to be able to do so, these things are not optional.”
Whoa. Welcome to the Third Reich.
Instead, let us consider another view, one carefully and wonderfully expressed by our nations’s founders.
It is that our federal government needs only to consider who it works for and what that employer wants its representatives to do.
Which is: Do your best to respond to our citizens’ desire for freedom; being the helper of getting that.
Willard E. Naslund
Port Angeles