Feigned regret
Feigned regret
Comments incredible
Even if Mitt Romney is a really nice guy and Paul Ryan is just a little hyperbolic with misleading claims, Republicans have no legitimate claim to the presidency or to majorities in the houses of Congress. They forfeited such rights on the day President Barack Obama was inaugurated and each day thereafter.
In “Do Not Ask Not What Good We Do” (2012), author Robert Draper describes a meeting of Republican leaders. On President Obama’s inauguration day, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Reps. Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan, and former Speaker Newt Gingrich agreed together they would use every tactic possible to prevent any success.
They quickly enlisted Speaker John Boehner and, together, they convinced all the Republicans in Congress to vote against all Democratic bills.
It is important to note that Republicans applied this plan to every Democratic proposal, even those that had previously been Republican proposals, even those that would prevent economic downgrading of the country. Their priority was denying Obama any success —even at the expense of their own country.
Romney claimed in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that he had wanted President Obama to succeed because Obama’s success would have been good for the country. He said this with full knowledge that the Republican Party had actively obstructed Obama’s every move.
His feigned regret for Obama would be credible only if he had been living in a cave for the last four years, instead of running for president.
John H. Sucke
Waimea
Gas prices
Every cause and effect
Headline: Hurricane Isaac pushes up gas prices.
Headline: Severe drought in U.S. to cause gas price hike.
Headline: Refinery fire to cause gas prices to spike.
Does anyone know if there is anything either man made or natural that doesn’t cause gas prices to go up?
David Miller
Captain Cook
GOP commentary
Plenty of rope
Regarding Sheila Mason’s lengthy opinion piece on Sept. 7: Thank you, WHT, for giving her so much rope.
L. Gross
Kailua-Kona
Conservative comment
No response merited
Although the long-winded, hatred-spewing, confused letter to the editor by Sheila Mason does not even merit a response, all I can say to this tea party/birther person is that she should check her own facts.
When Bush became president, he inherited a country with a huge surplus and no wars. Obama inherited the mess.
For the record, I am not a partisan or a bigot, but a freethinker who listens to all sides and checks the facts, something Mason should do. She could also read the recent letter from Ted Herhold for some of those facts.
Christa Wagner
Kailua-Kona