CMR claims to help farmers

I just received an electronic newsletter from Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers purporting to tell me about her efforts to help Eastern Washington farmers. Well, I don’t claim to have worked the land, but the last time I looked, she supports a president who took the U.S. out of the Trans Pacific Partnership, resulting in Canada and Australia locking up Pacific Rim sales of wheat to Japan and China for the next few years and shutting out Palouse wheat farmers and depressing their prices to even worse levels.

Instead of doing anything about improving export opportunities for Washington state wheat farmers, Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers and other Republican leaders are standing mute and saluting while the president becomes truly unhinged, that is, proposing a 25 percent steel and 10 percent aluminum tariff which, as Sen. Orrin Hatch had to point out to the president, will raise prices for all Americans, as well as undermine job security for hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers in the auto industry. In other words, the president has become a national security threat.

Perhaps Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers and other Republican and Democratic leaders will help Eastern Washington farmers by calling on the president to resign.

Karl R Boettner

Spokane