U.S. Senate must do its job
The Republican-led U.S. Senate continues the shut down on the Supreme Court by shirking their oath of office. President Obama has fulfilled his duty to America and brought up a nominee for the ninth and final seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The president requested that the Senate do its job and vote up or down on the nominee. Instead, they do nothing and because all they do is nothing, it’s supposed to be the new normal for America!
This is the seventh year of a do-nothing Congress. Republicans say “It’s their principles.” But they made an oath to us to do the job you were elected to do for “all Americans,” not just Republicans. The American people are sick and tired of all of this. My party will try to equal this too. If this continues, we have reached a low that is destroying the very fabric of our Constitution, and how it work for all of us.
But first, I would like to thank Mr. Lilly for his recent article with the headline, “What it means to be patriotic” on March 21. It was so nice to read, and in turn feel in my heart that after 45 years, there is another American that puts to words what he sees and writes about the oath we took so many years ago. “Thank You, Mr. Lilly.”
I often wonder if anyone else sees the same things happening. My writing is crude and leans toward Democrat by my life’s path. I am a blue-collar, union-loving Western Pennsylvanian.
The oath I took when I went to serve my country supersedes all others. Besides our oath, there is a word called “compromise.” It’s a word I first heard in third grade and what it meant by a “stern” teacher. Too bad she isn’t here. We could send her to instill in Congress what that word means!
I shall pull a few different scenarios of the corrosive lack of duty; an honor our military could do if their oath to our country was the same way our Congress is honoring their oath.
Let’s say that two Navy battle groups, one led by the Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan, and the other group led by the Aircraft Carrier USS George Bush, are returning to port to sit out the election year to support Congress. If the Congress will not abide by their oath to the United States of America and request of the commander-in-chief to just do their jobs. Why should they risk their lives by honoring their oath at the same time the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard said that any serviceman in their fourth year of service could go home because Congress will not honor their oath of office and do a request by the commander-in-chief and our president of the United States?
What is the difference in you fulfilling your last year of service if Congress will not follow and honor the president in his last year of service to his country? Why risk your life for a country that is divided by a Congress whose allegiance is to a party and not your country! The reason they gave for not honoring the president’s request was a rule they made up by something stupid a Democrat said and was not carried out in 1992.
Bill Horne is a resident of Uniontown.