To the editor:

I was fairly incensed with Sen. Dole’s commentary on the filibuster issue. He states that we should “be honest” as he opines about the Democrats abandoning a long tradition of mutual restraint that has allowed the Senate to fully function.

This is from the same senator who willingly shut down the entire government not once, not twice, but three times because he simply disliked how Clinton wanted to balance the budget. I think a bit of self-reflection is needed here when discussing honesty about self-restraint, sir.

Sen. Dole next mentions two judge nominees whom he disagreed with, but still allowed to pass to the entire Senate for a full up or down vote. It appears that Sen. Dole has selective memory, along with the rest of the GOP party. While he was unable to block these two judges from being nominated, it was the Republican-controlled Senate, however, who blocked about 60 of Clinton’s judicial nominees in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and thereby blocked these nominees from having an up-or-down vote in the full Senate as well.

I can certainly understand Sen. Dole still wearing his GOP party hat even after his retirement. Unfortunately, the intellectual dishonesty that many politicians tend to exhibit also is still with him.

Mark Luttrell,

Lawrence