House has been a disaster

House Republicans keep making the country next to ungovernable, and Kentucky is partly responsible. After all, we’ve sent Washington clownish bumbler James Comer, AR-15 waver Thomas Massie, and spineless enabler Brett Guthrie, who reliably votes for GOP inanities but never has the courage to get out front on them.

All this as we face several unsolved issues most voters are deeply concerned about: our future with NATO, Putin’s murderous assault on Ukraine; an impending government shutdown; in vitro fertilization and the reproductive freedom dominos that may fall with it; gun control; the Southern border; Russian space weapons; and ruinous climate change that is already undercutting conditions for life on Earth.

What are House (and many Senate) Republicans doing about all this? Nada! Nothing! Zilch!

They’ve put such matters aside in favor of two impeachments that they themselves admit are going nowhere, a rickety, soon to expire government spending expedient, and … naming post offices. Any way you cut it, this has been the worst House since the days of Herbert Hoover, and you know how his presidency worked out.

Offered the bipartisan coupling of tightened border control and foreign aid they clamored for, they refused to consider it, fearing it might defuse an issue ex-president Trump hopes to campaign on. And when the Senate sent up a foreign aid package without the border proposals, they declined again – because it lacked the border proposals they’d already refused to consider! Meanwhile, illegal migrants keep flooding the border and Ukrainians continue to die.

It’s high time to put whatever pressure we can on our representatives to start acting like grownups and at least try to govern. And if they won’t, it’s our patriotic duty next fall to vote the rascals out.

Joe Glaser

Bowling Green