“By their fruits ye shall know them” (Matt 7:6).

Since Republicans insist the Biden administration is a disaster, it seems fair to ask how they want to fix it. Lots of luck finding out. They’re far more interested in exploiting issues – including drummed-up ones – than solving them.

One of their leading lights, Chip Roy, R-Texas, recently begged his colleagues to name a single positive Republican achievement he could brag about to his constituents. Crickets. No one could come up with an answer.

Well if they’re not legislating, what are Republicans doing? Lots, but none of it relevant to America’s real concerns.

They’re hounding Hunter Biden for dodging the same congressional subpoenas they’ve dodged themselves, even after he’s offered again and again to testify in public.

They’re hoping to impeach Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, Lloyd Austin, and/or Merrick Garland for … something.

They’re plotting to remove their own leadership, which they unanimously elected just a couple of months ago.

They’re planning to extend $650 billion in expiring Trump tax cuts for corporations, while working to poke more holes in the social safety net. At the same time, they’re negotiating cuts in the IRS’s budget in order to further cripple its already hobbled ability to go after rich tax cheats.

Meanwhile in the wider world, 15 “pro-life” Republican governors have rejected summer food vouchers for impoverished children, claiming they don’t want to encourage “a culture of dependency” or that kids are eating too much already!

That’s the Republican mindset. Elections are coming up. If you are interested in improving ordinary people’s lives as opposed to political theater as a cover for corporate giveaways, please vote for Democrats up and down the ticket.

Joe Glaser

Bowling Green