Rubio should be voted out
Sen. Marco Rubio allowed President Trump to belittle him during the 2016 primaries. Rubio subsequently has beenplaying up to Trump and mute on any of the president’s 25,000-plus misleading statements and lies made during the past four years.
Now that Trump is on his way out, Rubio is suddenly speaking up again, trying to appear to be some sort of leader. First, he was offended by Presidentelect Biden’s deputy chief of staff’s choice words regarding Republicans.
Recently, he attacked
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Twitter regarding masks. If Rubio were a doctor, his opinion might matter. But he is not. Anyone not politically motivated knows COVID-19 was and still is a new and evolving virus. Fauci has been instrumental in the cure of vasculitis and combating HIV/ AIDS.
Where was Rubio’s outrage when Gov. Ron DeSantis decided to not mandate masks, kept Spring Break open and ignored science when COVID-19 was devastating Florida?
Where was the outrage when Trump was heard in Bob Woodward’s February interview stating that COVID-19 is far worse than the flu, and that he wanted to “play it down,” then lying about the severity of the virus for many months?
Hopefully, they will be voted out next time they are up for re-election.
– Eric Berg, Dearborn Heights, MI
MOOD MUSIC
Note to the Biden inauguration team as regards to music selection: Johnny Nash’s “I Can See Clearly Now The Rain Is Gone.” – Marshall Sober,
Aventura
DOMESTIC TERROR
The Dec. 28 Miami Herald offered two horrific stories, one about the terrorist bombing in Nashville, the other about the domestic terrorist shooting at a bowling alley in Illinois. There’s one thing these two terrorists have in common: Both are white men.
I’m appalled that nowhere in these articles is the word “terrorist” used. One was an IT expert and the other was an Army Green Beret.
Had these terrorist acts been committed by a person of color or a Muslim, the headlines would be screaming the words “terrorist attack.”
To add insult to injury, the police spokesperson at the bowling alley shooting proudly stated the arrest of the criminal was accomplished without the officers firing a shot — one of the many benefits of white privilege.
In the meantime, Black men and women are shot by police in their own homes for holding a sandwich, a phone or, in the most egregious crime, holding a toy gun, as Tamir Rice, a child, was doing. That officer was never charged.
I hope in 2021, with a new administration and attorney general, there will be more police accountability and justice on a federal level, and that the FBI will be able to once again call a terrorist a terrorist, even when the perpetrator is white. – Monica Harvey,
Miami Shores
TRIVIAL CLAIM
As though our country doesn’t have enough frivolous lawsuits, now an employee of Dominion Voting Systems, Eric Coomer, has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Trump for spreading voter-fraud conspiracy theories that inspired death threats against him. Coomer should man up, as probably more than 90 percent of death threats are false.
Some say any publicity is good publicity, so Dominion should be grateful for the press that these baseless accusations about Dominion’s machines flipping votes are providing.
And it’s not as though Trump’s lawyers are making these accusations under oath. They aren’t that stupid.
These lawsuits also provide needed employment for lawyers during this economic downturn.
Furthermore, the lawsuits allow Trump cultists to continue to live their alternate reality, which seems to help them cope.
Given all these benefits, this seems to be a needless lawsuit.
– Lidia Teijeiro, Miami
A DIFFERENT COURSE
If Donald Trump’s base has not seen he is a narcissist with absolutely no empathy for anyone, his actions on Christmas Eve should finally show them what most of us have known about him since day one.
Trump could not wait to hop on his golf cart and leave the rest of the nation to deal with the deaths of more than 300,000 mothers, fathers, grandparents and children.
He had just enough time to sabotage a pandemic relief bill that he played no part in fashioning, and to pardon a bunch of his criminal friends.
His base will think he wanted to increase checks to them, but it really was all about blowing up the agreement, as revenge on the Republican Party, which did not back his baseless claims of voter fraud.
All this for a job he has no interest in anyway.
Trump will go down in history as one of our worst presidents, but unfortunately, it’s the nation that is the biggest loser. Too bad for us. – Joseph Marra,
Venice
NANCY MEYER
RICK HIRSCH THAT’S THE ONLY TIME I COULD BEAT RAQUEL WELCH OUT OF ANYTHING. Dawn Wells, who was up against the also-young actress to play Mary Ann on ‘Gilligan’s Island.’ Wells, 82, died of COVID-19 on Dec. 30.
NANCY ANCRUM