To The Editor:
With all due respect to Art Hall, whose editorial on March 24 cites bipartisanship lacking on health care, bipartisan would indicate cooperation on both sides. Please be aware that not one single Republican voted for the bill. How bipartisan is that?
When Social Security was passed, there were 77 Republican votes for FDR. When the Civil Rights bill was passed, there were 55 Republican votes. Thus 77 to 55 to 0. That was cooperation and bipartisanship demonstrated by reasonable men in Congress. Hall talks about working together for the good of the country. Consider this, there is something on the order of 290 bills passed by the House and blocked in the Senate by Republicans. Why did Jim Bunning (R-Ky), or Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) hold up the unemployment extension and legislation respectfully for state pork supplements? Bipartisan really?
We don’t have to go back too far to recall when Tom Delay (R-Texas), twisted arms in the dead of night to get Bush’s bills jammed through Congress. Bipartisan? Let’s be realistic in this day and age, bipartisanship is dead. The Republicans lost in 2006 and 2008 and on the latest health care issue. They now wish to strangle the country and choke off progress by any means possible. We need dissention, but in the extreme? Via: Cheney, Palin, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, Ailes, Murdoch, McConnell, Behner and on and on. ls this not dividing America?
And Brownie did a “Hell of a job.” We must stay focused but more important, we must stay intellectually honest and on a bipartisan basis.
As for the Palin comment, she was a one-term governor. She was appointed to run as a V.P. candidate, otherwise, no one would have ever heard of her. Not too bright and now feathering a money nest.
WILLIAM MURPHY
Cape May
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