An open letter to Speaker Kevin McCarthy:
You've created a dilemma for yourself on the Budget resolution. While you gave extremist radicals everything they asked for, they still refuse to govern responsibly. Although you and the President made an agreement to avoid U.S. debt default, the extremists wanted you to dishonor the deal with new spending cuts … and you complied! Nevertheless, your Party's ideologs refuse to fund the government. You yielded to their irresponsible calls to waste time and resources for impeachment without credible evidence, yet those radical Republicans still refuse to support serious governing.
There's a way out of this dilemma caused by your bad choices. Propose a clean, fully-funded Continuing Resolution with no political stunts riding in sidecars. Surely, you can find four reasonable Republicans (plus yourself) to vote with the Democrats and keep our government going.
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That's what real governing, real leadership, would look like.
Bruce Joffe
South Tucson
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