Dems will fully own any future gov’t. shutdown
If I were employed by the TSA or in air traffic control, I’d be calling my Democratic representatives and senators begging them to pony up some cash for a border wall. The current rhetoric coming from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer does not bode well. The president agreed to end the partial government shutdown because he was promised serious negotiations to resolve this and other issues. That’s apparently not happening, as scoring political victories are more important than running the government. Reasonable people should be able to come to agreement on such a simple issue, but there’s nothing reasonable about today’s Democrats. Another partial shutdown is looming, but this time, the Democrats will own it.
WAYNE KERR, STOCKBRIDGE
Heaven help us if we keep ignoring climate change
The polar vortex freezing the Midwest (“How polar vortexes can make it so cold,” News, Jan. 30) prompted Trump’s remark, “Where has warming gone?” further politicizing climate change. Polls show over 70 percent of the populace worries about climate change, despite their complacent government. Some still think it is a future problem, even as fires and storms devastate entire towns. And they’re right; it will get worse. Others think climate forecasts are iffy and uncertain – maybe this; maybe that – but it’s a Russian roulette kind of uncertainty. That is, we might get by, but if not, heaven help us. Climate scientists who fully understand the situation are deeply distressed. The beginning of an answer is at hand in the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend bill in the House, recently endorsed at the highest levels of Catholic and Presbyterian leaders. Bipartisan, market-based, workable, not expanding or enriching government – there’s wisdom in it. Tell our Congresspeople.
HUGH LOWREY, AUSTELL
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