An open letter
Dear editor:
Dear distinguished members of our Republican representatives to Congress:
As the old typewriter exercise said, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country” … not party! If you still feel loyalty to our current president, you should convince him to resign immediately and save the embarrassment of his being driven from office and losing any chance of a second term. It is obvious the impeachment process will proceed, and it will fall to the Senate to vote likewise, avoiding a long, embarrassing slog of Trump digging himself deeper and deeper with his ranting tweets and on-air interviews. This will result in an expensive and time-consuming fight that the majority of American citizens do not want. They want Congress to get on with the business at hand: Global warming, global pollution, rebuilding our infrastructure, Immigration, drug and medical costs and more.
The constitutional law is quite simple: you don’t ask a foreign country to spy for you on a potential opponent and withhold weapons and funds he had no right to use for his personal gain. Now he is asking China, Italy, England, etc. to do the same. That openly invites their interference in our electoral system! All of this is a betrayal of his Oath to serve and protect our country … not himself.
This whole mess reminds me of the great movie “The Cain Mutiny” starring Humphrey Bogart As Capt. Queeg, shutting down his ship to search for whoever stole and ate the only strawberries on board. And you know how that movie ended.
Trump has blamed his troubles on every person he can think of, excluding Mickey Mouse! He accuses Democrats and some in his own party to be liars, spies, traitors, even believing there is a clandestine coup to overthrow him. As Nancy Pelosi says, he is “scared’ and is trying to shift the attention on a search for wrongdoing by Joe Biden. There isn’t anything there and that tact is going nowhere, and you, smart, experienced professional lawmakers know, Donald Trump has become unhinged!
If he is impeached or hopefully resigns, VP Pence will serve out the rest of his term but will be up for election himself in 2020. He has no chance, but you still have time to come up with a few candidates who could run against him. You might also consider that by supporting Trump to the bitter end could put you in the same sinking ship and be painted with the same brush of distrust as Trump.
R. Bruce Smith Hot Springs