What would return to GOP control fix?

With losses in special elections and a strong anti-incumbent fever spreading across the country, Democrats are facing the possibility of losing control of Congress.

Throw the bums out seems to be the feeling of many voters. While losses in off-year elections for the party in power is traditional, the wave of voter anger seems to be greater this year and Democrats will bear the brunt of voter dissatisfaction with big losses in the House and the Senate.

Yes, the President and Congressional Democrats have broken campaign promises, notably the President's promises to reduce wasteful government spending and his promise to end the occupation of Iraq and withdraw the troops in 16 months. Democrats have also mishandled the reform of health care. But voters should remember there is a downside to punishing the Democrats and taking away their control of Congress and that, of course, is that Republicans will again control Congress.

Have voters forgotten that from 2001 to 2009 there was a Republican administration and from 2001 to 2007 had total control of the government? Some of the highlights or should I say low lights of the Bush administration and a Republican Congress were: a disastrous decision to invade Iraq at a tremendous cost both in lives and money; a bungled prosecution of the war in Afghanistan; illegal electronic surveillance of Americans; a laissez-faire economic policy that resulted in an economic crisis; huge job losses; a collapsed housing market; a failure to address the problem of health care cost; the loss of billions in personal wealth; and a failure to deal with illegal aliens?

So when Americans say that they want Republicans back in power, just exactly what do they miss?

Victor Darst

West Dundee