Stop blaming, start solving
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Editor,
An open letter to Republicans:
If you want to have any chance of making inroads toward the office of President of these United States of America in 2016 you must immediately do these three things:
1. Stop bashing, trashing, and trying to smash the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. It is a law of the land that is destabilizing our deeply dysfunctional health-care system and is creating a real opportunity to fundamentally restructure the way we finance and deliver health care in America.
2. Stop bringing up the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, as a way of attacking Hillary Clinton. First of all, we don’t even know if she will run for the presidency. And secondly, if she does, she will make mincemeat out of anyone seriously going after her for the Benghazi attack.
3. Begin to offer some positive ideas for solutions to the many problems that plague our nation and our world right now. Following the rhetoric of the Rush Limbaughs and Fox News type outlets of the world wears very thin and shallow over time. This is not what Americans really want to hear.
We feel angry about things. We need to blame someone. We lash out. This seems to be human nature. And Obama and his party may be a convenient target, but it has not worked in the past and our problems run deeper than party politics. If the Republican party is a party of solutions, it is about time for it to start acting in that manner, in my opinion.
Bob McClellan
Polson
