Dear Editor:
I read an interesting piece by Ann Coulter the other day. I would like to share some of it with you and the Republican politicians in Washington. I wouldn't vote for any Democrat due to their stance on abortion, same sex marriage, and a whole myriad of other issues. I know that the Democrats will not like this, but they lost and we won.
She said, "More than 90 percent of congressional Republicans kept their jobs after the 2016 election, so you can cross 'staffing an entire branch of government' off their list. Only the Senate confirms nominees, which they've been doing at a snail's pace, so they've got loads of free time, and the House has no excuse at all."
In addition she said, "The House passed six Obamacare repeals when Obama was president and there was no chance of them being signed into law. Back then, Republicans were full of vim and vigor! But the moment Trump became president, the repeals came to a screeching halt."
Further she said, "To the delight of the media, these frightened little lambs are appalled by nearly everything Trump does. They've been especially throaty about Trump's temporary travel ban from seven terrorist nations, as designated by the Obama administration (and by everybody else who hasn't been in a deep freeze in a Finnish crevasse for the past decade). Way, way back, 15 long months ago, congressional Republicans didn't have a problem with a total ban on Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Not for a mere three months like Trump's order, but permanently, unless the director of the FBI, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the director of national intelligence personally certified that a particular refugee posed no danger to the U.S. That bill passed the House with an overwhelming, veto-proof majority, including 47 Democrats. Then it went to the Senate to die."
And finally she said, "But when President Trump imposed a comparatively mild three-month ban on immigrants from Syria, Iraq and five other terrorist nations, the same Republicans who had voted for a limitless ban on refugees whiled away their days calling reporters to denounce Trump."
My question is this, what happened to our spineless Republicans? Is it that they are more concerned with their own power, perks, and money received from lobbyists, than they are with doing what we hired them to do? You decide!
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