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Take the anti-pledge pledge

Reading in Business Week (May 30) about Enforcer Grover Norquist, we ponder about the ability of our lawmakers to think for themselves. Just as George Bush and Dick Cheney sold them on taking the country into the most damaging and costliest ongoing event in our history, they followed the flock “over the cliff.”

Now Norquist, who is neither a congressman or senator, has amassed the signatures of nearly all of the Republicans to his mandate “tax protection pledge.”

It seems to me the “follow the flock” frame of mind is a little much for our lawmakers. Representatives are elected to represent us all and, we hope, with the idea they will do their own thinking. Blindly signing a pledge, from someone outside of government, even before studying the issues and in some cases before they take office, doesn’t bode well for anyone that I want to represent me.

Write your lawmakers; suggest they don’t really have to follow the flock.

Howard Davis

Spokane

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