Republicans: Pitch in or butt out
Despite reading and hearing the most outrageous, insulting and usually untrue attacks on anyone associated with the Obama administration during the past year, I still was shocked to read recent letters filled with visceral hatred for Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Suggesting that she be sent to Siberia is not only way out of line, but it also contributes nothing toward solving the problems our country faces. What have the Republicans done to help achieve affordable health care for Americans? What are they doing to pull the planet back from the tipping point beyond which the planet's atmosphere can not absorb any more greenhouse gases? Where are their "back to work" programs to help the millions of unemployed in this country? They do nothing but gripe, carp, criticize and harass those of us who are trying to salvage what we can of the mess they created. What gall. As Lee Iacocca once said, "Lead, follow or get out of the way." We have major problems to solve and we need all patriotic Americans to pitch in and help. If you can't put country first, please butt out.
Susan Cunningham — Pacific
Published in St. Louis Post Dispatch Jan. 8, 2010