Senators should share, not obstruct government

When President Obama was inaugurated in 2009, Sen. McConnell famously told his members that their job was to ensure that President Obama would be a one-term president by opposing the president in every way possible. Having failed to prevent the president's re-election, Senator No and his band of "no, never" cohorts have now come up with a scheme to disregard their constitutional responsibilities by refusing to hold hearings and vote on the president's nominee for the Supreme Court until a new president takes office in January 2017.

They are introducing the meanest kind of politics into the judiciary process. This obstructive action by the GOP would have never been imagined by our Founding Fathers.

Ironically, their refusal is occasioned by the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, who made his reputation as a strict interpreter and advocate for following the original intent of the Founding Fathers, which is to share in the governing process, not to obstruct it.

Fred Arenas

Arlington Heights