Anything but more GOP leadership

I am very upset that most Republicans refuse to cooperate with the president’s plan for economic recovery. Here’s why. The White House under George W. Bush failed to heed the warnings before 9/11, and put troops on the Asiatic mainland, going after the Taliban via an invasion, instead of sending in a SWAT team, pinpointed to take out Al-Qaeda as President Obama did in Pakistan.

Republicans extended the war into Iraq, by choice not necessity, they ignored international torture agreements promoted by Rumsfeld and Cheney, supported the renditions, un-Constitutional internal spying, drained the Treasury by failing to tax America for conducting the wars, further weakened it by providing tax cuts for the super wealthy, and even more by initiating the wasteful use of private contractors at great additional war expenditure instead of using military units for ordinance and quartermaster and security, and most of all failed to oversee, initiate, and enforce regulations preventing the rebundling of mortgages, the immediate cause of the recession and perhaps a depression yet to come — all this before Obama.

Yes, we needed a savior. But instead of cooperating on our recovery as a nation, the Repuglicans opposed the president’s every step. Instead of apologies from the Republicans for sending this nation hurtling to self-destruction, we got opposition to the most humane aspects of the common good — extending health care, providing jobs for recovery, and stopping the neglect of public infrastructure. Currently they threaten those needing help to recover from natural disasters.

The absolute insensitivity of the Republican Party and the tea party to needs of the common good — placing political gain over America’s needs — doing all for the corporate good instead of the common good is treasonous. We need anything but a repeat of a Republican president and a Republican congress.

Marion J. Reis

Wheaton