Letter: GOP failures

To the editor,

I have a serious question. Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, what has the once proud (and still needed) GOP done right? Iraq, to put it mildly, was a foreign policy mistake. One could indeed make a strong case it was a blunder, disaster, tragedy and an amazing recruiting tool for Islamic terrorism (including ISIS).

Let’s look at the economy. Do you remember what Obama inherited? Call it what you will, it was another Great Depression (another high point in GOP history). For the last six years, the Republicans have controlled Congress. The controlling party’s job, their constitutional job is to propose solutions to our country’s problems and bring them up for a vote. How many jobs bills have the Republican’s brought forth for a vote? None.

Global warming? A hoax, Republicans  have told us (yet global warming is supported as a fact by 97 percent of the world’s scientists). Gun bills to address the biweekly mass shootings that now are commonplace? OK, this one I’ll place on senators and representatives of BOTH parties sucking at the teat of the profit-minded National Rifle Association.

What the GOP has done, and done well, is oppose Obama, period. Pardon me, they have opposed Obama on every single issue AND investigated the hell out of Benghazi. Did I miss anything? Seriously.