GOP should get started on these issues

Now that the bogus 7-year Republican obsession to repeal Obamacare is over because it was called Romneycare (Mitt created in MA), can we focus on what really urgent?

Can the Republicans ignore the incompetent man in White House and work with Democrats to:

• Fund and fix Obamacare starting with reduction in the price of prescription drugs

• Fund rebuilding our infrastructure

• Improve public education instead of trying to privatize it and provide relief to students with massive college debt

• Overall the immigration system to providing a path for citizenship instead of just a Wall and deportations

• Repair our relationships with our allies and strengthen NATO to help detour Russian expansionism

• Reform tax laws in favor of the Middle-Class instead of the wealth again.

• Impose stiff sanction against Chinese currency manipulation and dumping of steel unless they persuade N Korea to shut down their nuclear missile program

• Admit there is climate change and lead the effort to address by joining the Paris Accords

If the Republicans continue to enable Trump to ruin the country, then it will be obvious they're not patriots. They can follow Sen. John McCain's lead and do what's right for the country. Switch parties - become an independent like Joe Scarborough.

Tom Minnerick

Elgin