Ineptitude in office

Remember when old white guys like me and a mess of other citizens elected the first black president? Remember that Mitch McConnell and most other Republicans agreed not to allow his administration to enact anything, even things they wanted, if they could stop him?

That’s exactly what they did. Among other things, whatever provisions for national health management Obama proposed they fought or stopped altogether. Not only did they fight Obamacare, but provisions for just such things as this virus were stopped. That’s part of what Ms. Rutledge was referring to as she was campaigning on “Fightin’ Obama.”

Why did Arkansas and most of the dear ol’ South convert virtually overnight to Republicans? Most folks, if they’re truthful, would tell you it was and is racism.

Republicans believe in tax cuts. They can’t do that and still maintain emergency stockpiles of medical supplies sufficient for a national epidemic. They don’t want federal control or management if they can avoid it. So we have effectively 50 states competing for insufficient supplies, and an idiot in the Oval Office they must bow and genuflect before or suffer his wrath, and the spineless wretches who rubber-stamp his lunacy.

We lucked out and have a governor who has enough sense to know what he doesn’t know. He delegates to the experts the decisions they are qualified to make that he isn’t. He does what he is qualified to do and takes counsel from qualified sources. Kudos to him!

We’ve got some egotists in some offices who are concerned mostly with “Wonderful Me” like their leader is. Unnecessary public announcements and some making unfounded and offensive accusations against China. Are they actually dumb enough to think such stupid motor-mouthing is helpful in securing the help and resources from other nations that we depend on?

KARL HANSEN Hensley