Stir the Waters on impeachment

Manhattan: California Congresswoman Maxine Waters is involved in a high-stakes dispute with conservatives over her use of the word “impeachment” in calling for investigations of the President’s alleged misdeeds. She’s repeatedly demanded investigations into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. But she drew heavy fire from conservatives after sending a tweet calling Trump a liar and vowing to “fight every day until he’s impeached . . . I really want to know if we can prove collusion, then he is impeachable,” she’s said.

It’s too early to predict the outcome of the controversies swirling around the President. But many Democrats, and others, are crying out for answers.

Forty-six percent of Americans wanted Trump impeached in a February poll. A petition delivered to Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin bore 850,000 signatures supporting impeachment.

Waters may be too outspoken for some people, but when it comes to impeachment of the President, she’s not alone. Charles B. Rangel

Dumb Waters run deep

Beechhurst: Rep. Maxine Waters (the grumpy face of progressive liberalism) has been ranting that President Trump is Putin’s puppet and, therefore, needs to be impeached. Even after Trump’s swift cruise missile attack against Russia’s client, Bashar Assad, for crossing, yet again, Barack Obama’s chemical weapons red line, and even after Team Trump nixed ExxonMobil’s bid for a waiver on the sanctions on Russia, the party of the Resistance continues to beat this dead horse. Would that every Democrat with an ounce of integrity focus their attention and wrath on how Obama, as the evidence unmistakably screams out, was Iran’s puppet. James Hyland

How much lower?

Forest Hills: Our idiot-in-chief is more heartless than ever (“9/11 doesn’t rate next to MY numbers!” April 25)! How could he compare his ratings on Sunday interview shows to when “the World Trade Center came down”? Thousands of innocent people were murdered that day, thousands of first responders are sick or have died from being down there trying to find any human remains, and he has the nerve to talk about ratings? Impeach this incompetent, mentally ill moron now!

Sherri Rosen

Taxing our sanity

Brooklyn: What has happened to this country? Are we all asleep on our feet? Have you read the President’s new tax message? The millionaires and billionaires come out smiling while the middle and lower income taxpayers come out screwed, as usual. Meanwhile, Trump with his troop of adoring a-kissers make this country look like a pack of idiots for allowing this blow-hard, self-loving, bullying nitwit to continue on with his ignorance of how to run a country without running it into the ground. Heaven help us all! Natalie Meyer

Decency before age

Brooklyn: I am disgusted that people would defend Jakiw Palij, the 92-year-old former concentration camp guard, who is still in the U.S. and collecting Social Security as well (“The Nazi next door,”April 25). I thought that legislation was passed a few years ago that would deny this crone and other Nazi deviants from collecting Social Security. He has been allowed to live out his life here. His victims were killed in the prime of their lives and never had such an opportunity. Even the countries that he could have been deported to don’t want this trash. To say that he rarely goes out now to justify not getting him out of the country is deplorable and trivializes the Holocaust. What are we saying? If you make it to 92, all prior crimes committed are forgiven? This case is still another example why is so important to teach about the Holocaust in our schools.

Edward Greenspan

It wasn’t his fault

Central Islip, L.I.: Jakiw Palij may have been a victim of his government when he was recruited into the death camps, just as our young men were recruited (drafted) to serve in the military to kill people. Just as our soldiers are not held liable for something they were forced to do, Palij should also not be the victim of harassment, protests, legal action, etc., for something that happened many decades ago. If a young American was drafted, and he refused/protested, etc., he would have been subject to a jail sentence. I am sure that in Nazi Germany, Palij would have been subject to far worse than jail had he refused. I am not saying that what he may or may not have done is justified, legal or moral — so don’t any of you jerks out there write to criticize me as I am pro-Nazi. I am not. I just think that this guy is being punished for something that was against his will — as U.S. soldiers that are drafted were.

Thomas Sarc

Evil’s correct name

Flushing: Regarding the story of Jakiw Palij: The use of the term “extermination camp” is a desecration to the memory of all the victims (90% of whom were Jews) at the hands of the Nazis. It also lends credence to Goebbel’s propaganda films depicting Jews as dirty vermin, which made it easier to think of them as non-human and thus, expendable. I am an educator/docent at “The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County.” (Not to be confused with “the Holocaust centers” misnamed by Sean Spicer, referring to concentration camps!) At HMTC we simply refer to them as “murdering camps” or “death camps” (although many were worked to death in labor camps as well). It is even more significant since Holocaust Remembrance Day was this week, that we get the facts correct, while maintaining the dignity of the victims.

Al Musaffi

Name the evildoers

Boston: Is it the policy of The News not to name the perpetrators? “Nazi” was neither a country, a nationality, a language or an armed forces. It was a political party whose membership comprised about 10% of the German population. The occupation of Europe and the Holocaust were the acts of a nation-state, not a political party. “Nazi” is a nebulous term that disguises the identity of the perpetrators. My father’s hometown was occupied and terrorized by Germans, not the Nazi Party. Are you afraid of offending the guilty? Moreover, like many of the guards in German camps, the one in Queens was/is Ukrainian (another fact worth clarifying).

Yvonne Kowalczewski

Bridges Poles apart

St. Petersburg, Fla.: This will not be New York’s first and only Thaddeus Kosciuszko Bridge (“A man who bridged so many divides,” Op-Ed, April 26). I remember driving over one a lot in my high school and college years when I lived in the Albany area. Not sure if this is an oversight on the governor’s part or that this great man deserves a second or larger bridge. Laureen Sullivan

Teeing off on Trump

Brooklyn: Seriously, Voicer Jeffrey Gross? Are you that ignorant of basic percentages? When they say the majority of those who are diehard Trump fans are the less educated, you, sir, are a case in point. Trump has played golf 19 times in the 14 weeks he’s been President. This averages out to 1.35 times per week. Obama had 416 weeks as President. Playing 333 times averages out to 0.8 times a week (even counting the fact that he didn’t play at all during the first 100 days). Yes, Trump is playing golf at nearly double the rate. So AARON BERNSTEIN/GETTY IMAGES you’re right about one thing: It’s not even close. Amy McCloskey

Numbers don’t lie

Brooklyn: To Voicer Linda Ranallo: We can and have counted the number of times Barack Obama played golf. He played his first game of golf on April 26, 2009. Donald Trump had played 14 times by that date. This by a man who campaigned on the pledge that he would be too busy to play golf. All while 90% of the appointed positions in the White House remain unfilled. Stop counting pennies? Hundreds of thousands of dollars a day for security here in New York for his wife and son; hundreds of thousands of dollars a day for his weekends at his own resort in Florida; tens of thousands of dollars for his sons’ business expenses and their security as they travel for business around the world. And that is just the cost to the taxpayers. The income Trump and his family are earning off his current position as President is unprecedented, and I hope proves to be their downfall.

Eve Martinez

Step up, Ivanka

Manhattan: Will someone explain to me what in the world Ivanka was wearing at the women’s meeting in Germany (“Chilly reception in Brrrlin as Ivanka is booed,” April 26)? Sitting among the other sophisticated women, she looked like a peasant; the only thing missing was a flower in her hair. If that is her fashion line, she needs help. Felicia Caggiano