OPINION:
The public has rejected Democratic candidates and policies at the last three elections, giving the Republicans control of the House, the Senate, the White house and so many state houses. What more is needed to convince these nervous Republican congressional members that having won control, they can now set the agenda? Instead we have the Democratic leadership baying for yet another scalp as they falsely claim that Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions committed perjury during his hearings for attorney general.
The whole concept of Russia having interfered with the presidential election has been advanced without a shred of real evidence. It is all conjecture fabricated to justify questioning the validity of President Donald Trump’s election. Have the Republicans forgotten the earlier repeated rejections of such a claim by President Obama while he was still in office? Yet instead of laughing derisively at the Democrats, we have Republican congressional members agreeing that perhaps Mr. Sessions should recuse himself in any investigation.
Victor Davis Hanson (“The decline and fall of the American elite,” Web, March 1), has it right: Too few holding high positions are really elites. They behave more like frightened children too nervous to take a principled stand.
The problems we are facing were not engineered by the Russians. Mr. Trump recognized and harnessed a groundswell of public concern. He is now our president and the weak-kneed Republican senators and congressional members need to get in line and follow his fine example. Stop letting the defeated party control the discourse.
STANLEY ORMAN
Rockville
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