Letters
In lock step with Bush
Editor:
Re: Your Editor's Notes on March 16:
I am writing to question your assignation of responsibility for the current financial crisis and looming recession to all incumbents, including Congresswoman Giffords.
Do you really think that anti-incumbent sentiment extends to Democrats who have opposed George W. Bush and inures benefit to a challenger like State Sen. Tim Bee?
This recession and economic debacle are result of Republican policies, specifically those of President Bush whom Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., embraces.
I am a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and would find it difficult under any circumstances to vote for any Republican at this juncture in our national journey, and here are some of the reasons:
The illegal and unwarranted Iraq war with the cost of 4,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians along with four million Iraqi refugees at a cost estimated to be between one and two trillion dollars has been supported by every Republican legislator in Washington.
The assault on our Constitution including a suspension of habeas corpus, the assault on our liberty posed by the Patriot Act, the United States lack of compliance with the Geneva Accords based on opinions by Attorney General Gonzales and the acceptance of universally condemned torture practices has been approved by every Republican in Congress.
The very questionable benefit of giving huge tax cuts to the most wealthy of Americans in a time of huge budget deficits has been supported by every Republican in Congress. (Sen. McCain at first denounced the tax cuts for the rich and now supports them — talk about a flip-flopper!)
We should also remember the Republican Congress has supported President Bush’s policies in regard to lax regulation of the coal industry, the banking and investment industries, and the weak enforcement of environmental laws. His obeisance to the right-wing base of the Republican Party led to his opposition to stem cell research, his failure to recognize the seriousness of global warming and the under funded and failed No Child Left Behind Act to name just a few of the failed Republican acts of governance in the last fourteen years were all supported by Republican congressmen. If the tragedy of New Orleans is included in this litany of failure it compounds the malfeasance.
All Republicans have been in lock step with George W. Bush and it does not seem possible to look forward to a change in our national destiny if Sen. Bee was in lock step with John McCain, whose policies will mirror those of Bush.
Sen. Bee is in lock step with the state Republicans like Russell Pearce and we all know the sorry state of affairs that exists in Arizona under a Republican legislature which according to Mr. Bee has a high approval rating. If this is so are the people of Arizona paying attention to what is transpiring in Phoenix?
If Bee is excited to have Sen. McCain at the top of the Republican Party ticket that means he is also excited about Sen. McCain’s zero ratings by the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of Conservation voters and is supportive of continuing the occupation of Iraq for up to one hundred years!
Think very hard before you decide to support Bee and McCain and more of the same Bush policies.
I hope this sorry record of Republican failure does inspire more Republicans to go to the polls in November and vote Democratic.
David L. Divine, Green Valley
Re: Your Editor's Notes on March 16:
I am writing to question your assignation of responsibility for the current financial crisis and looming recession to all incumbents, including Congresswoman Giffords.
Do you really think that anti-incumbent sentiment extends to Democrats who have opposed George W. Bush and inures benefit to a challenger like State Sen. Tim Bee?
This recession and economic debacle are result of Republican policies, specifically those of President Bush whom Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., embraces.
I am a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and would find it difficult under any circumstances to vote for any Republican at this juncture in our national journey, and here are some of the reasons:
We should also remember the Republican Congress has supported President Bush’s policies in regard to lax regulation of the coal industry, the banking and investment industries, and the weak enforcement of environmental laws. His obeisance to the right-wing base of the Republican Party led to his opposition to stem cell research, his failure to recognize the seriousness of global warming and the under funded and failed No Child Left Behind Act to name just a few of the failed Republican acts of governance in the last fourteen years were all supported by Republican congressmen. If the tragedy of New Orleans is included in this litany of failure it compounds the malfeasance.
All Republicans have been in lock step with George W. Bush and it does not seem possible to look forward to a change in our national destiny if Sen. Bee was in lock step with John McCain, whose policies will mirror those of Bush.
Sen. Bee is in lock step with the state Republicans like Russell Pearce and we all know the sorry state of affairs that exists in Arizona under a Republican legislature which according to Mr. Bee has a high approval rating. If this is so are the people of Arizona paying attention to what is transpiring in Phoenix?
If Bee is excited to have Sen. McCain at the top of the Republican Party ticket that means he is also excited about Sen. McCain’s zero ratings by the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of Conservation voters and is supportive of continuing the occupation of Iraq for up to one hundred years!
Think very hard before you decide to support Bee and McCain and more of the same Bush policies.
I hope this sorry record of Republican failure does inspire more Republicans to go to the polls in November and vote Democratic.
David L. Divine, Green Valley
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