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Hoping Congress will work with the President; Lynn Coleman [Gardner]; Beaver County Times; December 6, 2012. Though the letter was signed “Lynn Coleman,” I’m guessing this is the same author who signed her name “Lynn Coleman Gardner,” also of White Township, to previous letters. If any readers know differently, please let me know.
Ms. Gardner has written at least 48 letters since 2005. Previous letters from Ms. Gardner I critiqued are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“State Rep. Tim Solobay’s Nov. 29 letter was excellent. It was not only detailed, it made a lot of good common sense.
“I especially liked the paragraph urging legislators to put aside partisan politics and get to work together. I like his way of thinking.”
[RWC] Has Ms. Coleman reformed? You may recall Ms. Coleman referred to then-President Bush as “a no account.” In that letter, about three weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck, Ms. Coleman bashed Mr. Bush for the mess. The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy is still a mess over five weeks after it made landfall and we’ve yet to hear from Ms. Coleman on this topic.
“I truly hope Congress is are going to be more willing to work with President Obama and not fight him tooth and nail like in the past.”
[RWC] This is at least the 10th letter from Ms. Coleman defending Mr. Obama since March 28, 2008.
Ms. Coleman appears to forget President Obama had significant Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress for two years (2009-2010), including a period with a filibuster-proof Senate. As we saw with Obamacare, Republicans couldn’t stop anything Mr. Obama wanted even when not a single Republican voted for it. If something Ms. Coleman wanted didn’t get passed during those two years, she can’t blame Republicans. Ms. Coleman doesn’t tell us which of Mr. Obama’s policies not enacted should have been.
It’s also important to recognize who we elected to represent us. The President is the federal government’s chief executive, but he does not represent us. That job falls to the House of Representatives, and the Senate to a lesser degree. The President’s job is to run the federal government according to our laws.
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