To the editor: Good attempt, Mitch, however too little, too late. (“McConnell tests the strengths and limits of his power opposing a trio of Trump’s Cabinet nominees,” Feb. 18)
Whereas no political get together has a monopoly on hypocrisy, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) stunts on U.S. Supreme Court docket nominations (blocking an appointment within the closing 11 months of President Obama’s second time period, and dashing one by way of within the closing 4 months of President Trump’s first administration) took disingenuous conduct to new depths. Democracy can not exist when the principles are heads I win, tails you lose.
When he had a chance 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 constantly put the pursuits of his get together over these of the nation, and that will likely 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 assist of his get together, he performed quick and free with Senate custom.
By refusing to present a listening to to Supreme Court docket nominee Merrick Garland within the spring of 2016 resulting from 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. “Occasion over nation” sums up his type.
He assumed, like many different Republican energy brokers, that Trump might be managed and bent to their will. One other politician in Germany in 1932 additionally believed he may management a political upstart. Former Chancellor Franz von Papen foolishly believed that old-school conservatives may have their cake and eat it too.
Sadly, for each Germany and america, the item of von Papen’s disdain didn’t play by the principles. Those that believed they might be in management have 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 widespread good, the outcomes typically show calamitous.
Kent Grigsby, Riverside
