Destruction, not leadership

This is a portion of an article in The Spokesman-Review (“Spending bill presents urgent challenge to divided Congress,” April 11): “What a mess,” said Paul Brace, a congressional expert at Rice University in Houston, offering his own pessimistic view of the unified Republican control of the House and Senate so far under President Donald Trump. “It was so much easier when all you had to do was oppose Obama.”

Wow! That underscores my opinion about this crowd ever since they took office. First of all, if I had been in opposition to a bill for seven years, I believe that somewhere in that period of time I would have come up with an alternative. Would that be too much to expect?

All they could do was put together a slapdash piece of nonsense that would have been more appropriately called a “No Health Care Bill.” I do not believe it is too far-fetched to compare the ones in control of both houses of Congress to some ragtag group of Middle Eastern terrorists. All they know how to do is destroy. After all, destruction takes far less thoughtfulness and knowledge than construction. They and their leader are making our country into an international embarrassment.

Ernest Fokes

Hayden Lake