To the editor: Good attempt, Mitch, however too little, too late. (“McConnell assessments the strengths and limits of his energy opposing a trio of Trump’s Cupboard nominees,” Feb. 18)
Whereas no political social gathering has a monopoly on hypocrisy, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) stunts on U.S. Supreme Courtroom nominations (blocking an appointment within the ultimate 11 months of President Obama’s second time period, and speeding one by way of within the ultimate 4 months of President Trump’s first administration) took disingenuous habits to new depths. Democracy can’t exist when the foundations are heads I win, tails you lose.
When he had a possibility to at the very least attempt to put a nail in Trump’s political coffin throughout his second impeachment trial over the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, McConnell, the Senate’s Republican chief, weaseled out.
He has persistently put the pursuits of his social gathering over these of the nation, and that might be his unhappy legacy.
Bob Fey, Orange
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To the editor: I’ll admit up entrance that I’m not a fan of McConnell. In his quest for private energy and in help of his social gathering, he performed quick and unfastened with Senate custom.
By refusing to provide a listening to to Supreme Courtroom nominee Merrick Garland within the spring of 2016 because of it being too near the election, and 4 years later confirming Amy Coney Barrett mere days earlier than the 2020 election, McConnell confirmed his true face. “Get together over nation” sums up his fashion.
He assumed, like many different Republican energy brokers, that Trump could possibly be managed and bent to their will. One other politician in Germany in 1932 additionally believed he might management a political upstart. Former Chancellor Franz von Papen foolishly believed that old-school conservatives might have their cake and eat it too.
Sadly, for each Germany and the US, the article of von Papen’s disdain didn’t play by the foundations. Those that believed they might be in management had been left weakened or, like von Papen, ignored and forgotten.
Historical past repeats itself, and due to those that ignore the previous and care extra for private energy than the frequent good, the outcomes usually show calamitous.
Kent Grigsby, Riverside
