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The last straw
I don’t agree much with what Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers stands for, but her vote for Jim Jordan for speaker of the House was the last straw.
This person would be the second in line for succession to the presidency. Yet he has denied that President Joe Biden won fair and square. Even today, he refuses to say that Biden is a legitimate president. And you wanted him to be the speaker of the House?
What legislative accomplishment can he point to? I can’t think of a single piece of legislation that he sponsored or co-sponsored that made it into law. He is definitely not known for bipartisanship, which is what is required in closely divided House.
So Cathy, you wanted an election denier and someone who can’t pass legislation to be the speaker? Get real.
Charlotte Omoto
Palouse
Take the stairs
I’ve listened to several interviews of Vivek Ramaswamy and, to me, he is saying exactly what the world wants to hear (1 John 4:4-5). Hmmm ... sort of like the Antichrist (insert ecclesiastical dry heave).
His speeches are so well-rehearsed, I’m waiting for the vinyl record to start skipping and then for Milli Vanilli to come out from behind the curtain singing, “Girl You Know It’s True.” This is where you, the reader, says, “Wow. That guy is not to be trusted, at all.”
Just remember Vivek: There is enough technology in the world that folks know who you are and where you came from and all the things you’ve accomplished in your life and everything you’ve ever said that has been recorded.
One more thing Vivek: The truth takes the stairs, and the lie will always take the elevator. If you are truly serious about getting elected and running the country (not ruining it, like our current milquetoast president) don’t be a coward. Lay off the Brylcreem and stay off the elevator.
Michael Uhlenkott
Lewiston
Escalating savagery
Journalist Chris Hedges has seen urban warfare in El Salvador, Iraq, Gaza, Bosnia and Kosovo. He says once you fight street by street, apartment by apartment, block by block, there is only one rule — kill anything that moves.
Hedges says the talk of safe zones is only a rhetorical smokescreen to mask indiscriminate slaughter.
Israel, by employing its military machine against an occupied civilian population that is being denied food, water, fuel and medical supplies and has no army, air force or mechanized units, is not exercising “the right to defend itself,” Hedges says. “This is not a war. It is the obliteration of civilians trapped for 16 years in the world’s largest concentration camp.”
Gaza is being leveled, flattened, destroyed, reduced to rubble. Hundreds of thousands of its impoverished residents will be killed, wounded and left homeless, without food, water, fuel or medical help. Over a thousand children are already dead.
The escalating savagery of Israel against the Palestinians is reflected in the escalating savagery of the Palestinians. Israel believes eradicating Hamas is the solution. But history has shown that destroying one Palestinian resistance movement only spawns a more virulent one to take its place.
Hedges says the killers feed off each other. “When religion and nationalism are used to sanctify murder, there are no rules. It is a battle between light and dark, good and evil, God and Satan. Rational discourse is banished.”
“The sleep of reason,” Francesco Goya said, “brings forth monsters.”
Mike Epstein
Clarkston