Public keeps electing selfish politicians

For years the U.S. Senate has been a body of individuals dedicated to furthering their own wants rather than representing the needs of their constituents.

The latest and perhaps the dumbest examples involve the refusal of the Senate to consider Obama's Supreme Court nominee and now the Senate Democrats filibustering the Neil Gorsuch appointment. This has caused the Republicans to enact the so-called nuclear option. Neither of these actions served the American public but rather were extreme examples of pettiness by overpaid so-called public servants,.

We need to remember, however, that we the voting public put these people in office. What is worse, we keep re-electing them and are guilty of perpetuating these cycles of ineptitude. Let me add that the House of Representatives is no better, and here we are faced with 435 spoiled brats rather than 100.

Thomas P. Young

Mundelein