Letter to the editor: Hypocrisy display

To the editor:

I’m sure I’m not the only one very concerned about some of the reckless acts and words of our current president.

So I wrote a courteous letter to our senators and congresswoman, asking them to do everything they could to protect us from any foolish or harmful presidential policy decisions.

I got a courteous reply from one senator, explaining that impeachment (which I hadn’t mentioned) was a long constitutional process, warranted only when a president could be proved to have committed an impeachable offense. Until then, the senator wrote, there was nothing he could do to curb the current president’s use of the office’s power.

This senator (like every one of Kansas’ congresspeople) is part of the faction that made it their mission the past eight years to obstruct everything the previous president did or tried to do. Their partisan stratagems were even able to obstruct the previous president from his constitutional duty of picking a Supreme Court nominee for Congress’ approval.

Now we have a president who’s shown himself prone to making unwise and dangerous snap decisions, usually from personal pique more than mature deliberation. But our senator says he and his faction can’t do anything to rein in that president, the head of their faction, short of impeachment.

Very curious, isn’t it?