The cost of Biden’s presidency
Trump must be punished
The members of the Sedition Caucus, including the illustrious Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, need to be recused from participation in the impeachment trial because they also participated in inciting the insurrection.
Also, the claim that the trial is unconstitutional is absurd. If there is no consequence for former President Donald Trump’s seditious behavior, what is there to keep any losing or retiring president from creating all sort of chaos after the election?
We depended on our norms of accepting election results and peaceful transfer of power. We all saw how well that worked out with a deranged demagogue and his minions like Johnson.
Illegal behavior and incitement to overturn an election must have consequences.
Susan Anderson
Milwaukee
Work for the country
If we learned anything from this mess of the last few years, it is that the real Republicans have to take their party back. The country needs them. Those ultra-conservatives, with help of a foreign-owned network who’s commentators preach hate and distort the facts, want a one-party system like Vladimir Putin’s Russia. We must wean real Republicans away by fact-checking and getting the truth out.
Democrats, if you are feeling proud, remember you lost House seats, and the only reason you gained those last couple of seats in the Senate was because of former President Donald Trump’s rants. I don’t want to hear about liberal progressives or Socialists.
Return to the common sense party that used to help workers. And, both parties, it’s time to get some young people involved and get rid of the Stone Age thinkers — at both the state and national levels.
I am sure our forefathers had a reason for the Electoral College, but it is outdated and we’ve seen how a bunch of petty politicians can use it to take away our votes.
Get modern and set up a voting system that is the same for all states — a vote in Wyoming should count the same as one in New York.
Our representatives can do that
if
President Joe Biden has been in office only a few days, and he’s already destroyed tens of thousands of jobs while putting hundreds of thousands of other jobs in jeopardy. Biden stopped the Keystone XL pipeline, killing the energy sector which will raise the cost of living for everyone (“State’s Republicans call pipeline halt a job killer,” Jan. 23).
Unions that were set to make billions off the construction of the project, endorsed Biden, are now angry.
Biden stopped the border wall construction, proposed amnesty for immigrants who broke the law and suspended new enrollment in the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), known as the “Remain in Mexico” program, making Americans less safe.
No amount of dislike for Trump’s personality is worth the cost of a Biden presidency.
Break up the US
Sallie Helmer
When a marriage finds that there is no longer any love or trust or, for that matter, anything in common mature adults move for divorce, which is the only sensible course of action. No sane person would advise a couple that had nothing in common any longer to remain together.
It’s nothing more than magical thinking that the left and the right in the United States will ever find middle ground together again with respect to virtually any issue.
We can’t even agree to wear masks during a pandemic.
We need to begin to have serious adult discussions on separating the U.S. population by political affiliation. The current state of affairs is getting worse, not better, with nothing to indicate realistic improvement in the future.
Let’s collectively admit it’s time for a divorce and begin the process of getting one.
Yes, it’s an extreme idea.
Yes, it would be enormously difficult. Yes, it would take significant time. But watching the Dumpster fire we currently have between left and right is
Public officials fiddle
What has happened to the state of Wisconsin?
We have an executive branch that can’t or won’t provide its citizens an equitable COVID-19 vaccine delivery system.
We have a legislative branch that in the last six months has not conducted any of the people’s business. However, it finds time to challenge the executive branch on a procedural point about mask wearing — against all available medical expert advice.
It used to be a point of pride to tell people you were from Wisconsin — now it is a point of embarrassment.
Nearly 6,000 deaths in Wisconsin are attributable to COVID. How many more people will die before they do their jobs?
Kathrine Parzych
Sussex
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