To the Editor:
We the people elected a Democrat as president.
We the people elected a Democratic-controlled Senate and a
Democratic-controlled House. We the people should be getting what we
voted for. But we’re not.
The Republicans’ game plan, from Day
1, has been to say no to everything, to obstruct all legislation and to
make the new, wildly popular president fail. Not his agenda, but him
personally. And they’re succeeding.
Trouble is, when the
president and Congress fail, the country fails with them.
Our
health care gets more expensive and more inaccessible. Our climate
becomes more intense and more deadly. And our children end up with an
education that is inadequate to be able to compete in the global
marketplace.
To all those people who claim to love their country,
please show it. Tell your elected officials to end this negative
partisan behavior and act like patriots.
John Fineberg
St. Paul, Feb.
17, 2010
Note from KBJ: I hate to break it to the letter writer, but not everyone voted Democrat. Many of us voted to reduce the size of government. Perhaps the letter writer would be happier if he lived in a dictatorship.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 