To the editor: Good strive, 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 occasion has a monopoly on hypocrisy, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) stunts on U.S. Supreme Court docket nominations (blocking an appointment within the remaining 11 months of President Obama’s second time period, and speeding one by means of within the remaining 4 months of President Trump’s first administration) took disingenuous conduct to new depths. Democracy can’t exist when the foundations are heads I win, tails you lose.
When he had a chance to not less than 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 occasion over these of the nation, and that can 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 occasion, he performed quick and unfastened with Senate custom.
By refusing to provide a listening to to Supreme Court docket nominee Merrick Garland within the spring of 2016 on account 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. “Celebration over nation” sums up his fashion.
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 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 USA, the thing of von Papen’s disdain didn’t play by the foundations. Those that believed they’d 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 typically show calamitous.
Kent Grigsby, Riverside
