The anonymous Op-Ed
Instead of asking officials in the Trump Administration if they wrote the anonymous op-ed in the New York Times, they should be asking, “which of the following accusations do you disagree with?”
1. Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses.
2. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decisionmaking.
3. Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in respective rants, and his impulses results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.
4. There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next.
5. Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of evoking the 25thAmendment.
6. Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people.
7. In addition to his mass marketing of the notion that the press is the enemy of the people, President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.
8. Trump’s leadership style is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.
9. The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.
If you believe these accusations are true, you need to make sure when you vote this November you vote for members of the congress and senate that will do their jobs and serve as a needed check and balance on this out of control administration.
— Joe Tighue, Hamilton
Township Democrat
Crime and punishment
As I read the paper today I see three young men from Trenton who hunted down another young man and shot him dead. They are each carrying a gun and get caught with it shortly after. Two of the three gunman have a substantial record of unlawful lives.
A plea deal gives them 15 years. Murder intended and 15 years?
Our new sentencing rules or just plain good negotiating by their attorneys? Don’t know. Justice? NO!
As we lighten up on sentencing we also feed the street with killers and predators earlier then should be.
Where is the justice for this dead kid and his family?
Most likely they all were not alter boys but 15 years’ time spent of 1.5 years and they do 13.5 years for murder.
What a system we have here.
— George Lobman, Toms River
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