Letters: Trump’s answers are obvious; Vote Oz to secure values

Trump’s answers are obvious

Donald Trump is reported to have written to Merrick Garland as follows: “The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?”

Do you really have to ask? Isn’t the answer obvious?

• You should immediately and unequivalently announce that Joe Biden is our legitimate President. That he honestly won the 2020 election. That there was no fraud or stealing. And you should apologize for perpetuating your lies for so long.

• You should admit that your removal of Presidential records, classified or not, from Washington to Mar-A-Lago was inappropriate, and you should cooperate fully in the return of the same.

• You should call on your millions of supporters to refrain from violence, and threats of violence, directed toward poll workers, election officials, Secretaries of State, FBI agents, federal judges who sign search warrants, and, especially, national heroes like Liz Cheney.

But it’s not likely that you will do any of these things.

Vote Oz to secure values

Voting for someone (Fetterman) just because he is a Pennsylvanian is questionable logic. The party that controls the Senate controls the legislation that affects all of us, not just Pennsylvanians. Whether we live in a rural farmhouse, a city row home, an apartment, suburbia, or a college dorm, we all want the same basic things.

Keep criminals off our streets. Keep police on our streets. Don’t brainwash our schoolchildren. Unleash our fossil fuel production the world needs at this time. Secure the border and stop criminals, terrorists, heroin, fentanyl, and human trafficking. Stop child mutilation. Stop inflationary spending. Increase the number of Border agents, not IRS agents. Stop the increase in violent crime (stabbings, shootings, carjackings, sucker-punching, looting, etc.) Stop advancing failed Marxist/socialist ideology and bigger government and support free enterprise, small business, smaller government, individual freedoms and American patriotism. Strengthen our military. Stop China from “buying” our politicians, our farmland, and stealing our technology. Enable us to make our own medicine, microchips and everything else we depend on China for. Encourage the nuclear family, the foundation of society.

Fetterman is admittedly a left wing progressive who supports Bernie Sanders and Biden. He will not support these vital needs. Dr. Oz is a conservative who will.

We must win control of the Senate in order to secure these values for all of us.

A Democratic comeback?

Early this year, conventional wisdom held that the midterm elections would result in a “red tide” of Republican gains. One reason was simple history; the party not holding the White House has made gains in nearly every midterm election since 1946. Another was Joe Biden’s low approval rating, due to his anemic legislative accomplishments and serious price inflation.

Recent polling now suggests that the “red tide” prediction may have been premature. What has influenced this Democratic resurgence?

• Biden’s legislative scorecard now looks more impressive, following the passing of the Chips, Burn Pit, and Inflation Reduction Acts

• Gas (and other) prices are coming down.

• The January 6 Hearings have showcased the Republican threat to our democracy.

• Trump’s multiple legal entanglements, such as stealing governmental documents and transporting them to Mar-A-Lago.

• The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe.

• Most importantly, the clown car of Republican nominees for Governor races, including Mastriano (PA), Lake (AZ), and Dixon (MI), and for Senate races, including Oz (PA), Masters (AZ), Walker (GA), Vance (OH), and Schmitt (MO). Even Mitch McConnell has decried the lack of “candidate quality.”

A recent poll shows that more respondents named the threat to democracy as their top concern (21%) rather than cost of living (16%), which had been the top concern in prior polls. Some Americans might blame the Democrats for inflation, but most Americans recognize that the threat to our democracy is coming entirely from Republicans.