Stop the pettiness in Congress

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am thoroughly fed up with the adversarial attitude in the Congress. It seems that there was less animosity and division during the Civil War than there is now. The blatant and almost libelous attacks by Republicans on our, yes I said our, president show that the primary focus is on partisan politics rather than taking care of this country’s business. So much time and effort is being wasted on petty arguments and pointless attacks that nothing good is being accomplished and we, the citizens, are paying the price.

We have just experienced the tenth anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Right after that crisis, our government looked past political party nonsense and got down to the business of trying to solve a major problem that threatened to damage this country. President Bush was not beloved in Congress, yet both parties worked together for the common good.

We are now facing an even bigger threat, one that Osama bin Laden had hoped to create. The economic problems facing us now are an even greater threat than was posed on 9/11, and yet our Congress is acting like spoiled children who only want a “win for their side” rather than to cooperate to a more important end.

Have our representatives and senators become so self-focused that they have lost sight of the bigger picture — the welfare of our country as a whole? We are not Democratic states and Republican states; we are supposed to be the United States of America. I think it’s way past time our Congress started acting like it.

Cyndi Kehoe

Elk Grove Village