I read with great interest Thomas Shields letter (Feb. 8): “Democrats being obstructionist.”
As I have in the past, I would remind Shields of the following:
• After Barack Obama was elected president, Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, stated that the only thing the Republicans would work on was to ensure that Obama didn’t serve a second term.
• The Republicans have had four years to come up with an alternative health care bill to replace the Affordable Health Care Act.
Do those constitute obstruction?
As Shields stated in his letter, ” At the State of the Union address, many Democrats in attendance appeared to be in a sullen pout.” Yet, Shields has conveniently ignored the fact that during President Obama’s State of the Union address, a Republican shouted “liar.”
Obstruction? There is a Republican president and both houses of Congress are controlled by Republicans.
America’s precious democracy is build on a two-party system that requires/demands compromise for “we the people.”
How can a true democracy have winners and losers?
Norman Smith, Poland
Send questions/comments to the editors.
