Letters

I write this after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a one-page memorandum decision issued Friday evening, summarily dismissed the frivolous lawsuit filed by Texas’s Republican attorney general and supported by seventeen other Republican attorneys general and 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives including our own Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

We have known for four years now that Donald Trump would rather be the head of state of a "banana republic," and has worked toward those ends. But an election stopped him.

Since the start of COVID-19, we have been put into isolation to limit the spread of the virus. A life that once was filled with people and social interactions is left with only faces on a computer screen. Concerned for everyone’s safety, people relied on social media to maintain relationships with their loved ones. Social Media provided a platform to feel connected and loved especially during this pandemic. The usage of social media skyrocketed as we received new information, emails and messages. Life with social media became a norm.

No words in English express my absolute disgust at Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ decision to sign on to President Trump’s deluded push to invalidate millions of votes. She took a vow to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

As this election drags on well beyond what it should have, I can’t help but be reminded of Groundhog Day. However, in this dysfunctional reality someone can win by more than 8 million popular votes and what the previous guy said was a landslide margin in the Electoral College and can somehow not be considered the winner.

By signing on to the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results of four states that voted for president-elect Biden, Rep. McMorris Rodgers demonstrated a tremendous lack of leadership. It wasn’t enough to refuse acknowledging that Trump lost, she decided to double down. This is inexcusable.

Since Cathy McMorris Rodgers was quick to sign on to the Texas attorney general’s effort to subvert the will of America’s voters and overturn the presidential election, I am confident she will be just as eager to support my proposal to throw out the result of her own congressional race and have Dave Wilson declared the rightful winner.

Ignoring everyone but “Dear Leader” we have Eastern Washington’s potted plant, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, joined by Louis Gohmert and others, trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election!

The recent Supreme Court’s decisions had nothing to do with a lack of “courage” and “wisdom”. Rather, the U.S. Constitution and rule of law – neither of which is something this administration appears to understand or respect!

I am not a great student of history, and I wonder, were there people in Germany in the 1930s who saw Adolph Hitler as a crass, arrogant buffoon? Were there people who viewed the fiery, unhinged support he received from fellow citizens with equal parts alarm and bewilderment?

An issue currently in my community while living in Cheney that I see every day is how the COVID-19 pandemic has really affected the university and the community of Cheney. At first it just seemed like, Oh, everyone is just gone for the summer and we all will be back in the fall, but that is not the case.

“We are all victims of our own experience.” A friend of mine was fond of saying that. And it is true. Our experience colors how we see and experience things. If I grew up in a house where we saw everything through “rose colored glasses” and everything was wonderful, that is how I would see the world. But if I grew up in a house where everything was a calamity, that is also how I would see the world and I would be a pessimist.

A response to Lucy Holt’s letter ("Socialism rebuttal," Dec. 9) is needed.

As a former resident of Spokane I was especially sorry and embarrassed to see Member of Congress McMorris Rodgers join other GOP representatives in support of the suit brought by Texas to invalidate the votes of more than 20 million voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

As the source of local news and informed journalism, your newspaper bears responsibility to inform your readers of significant events. The free press is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Our democracy was founded on the idea of informed voters.

People are angry at governors over COVID restrictions, feeling these actions simply hamper economic recovery and restrict freedoms. It’s worth asking if this anger is misplaced. Governors react to situations threatening the well-being of their states. An unwillingness on the part of citizens to self-regulate dictates that actions to protect the population are necessary.

There has been much discussion since the lead up to the 2016 presidential election about the need for a universal health care system, or Medicare for all, in the United States. The current situation with COVID-19 has caused numerous issues with the affordability of health care for the less fortunate in society.

But then, shame is not a quality she shies away from when it comes to counting votes.

The article regarding fire-bombing of Democratic HQ Downtown Spokane in this morning's paper ("Suspected arsonist at Democrats HQ was after 'elites,'," Dec. 11) isn't something that should be happening in America.