To the editor: It's GOP Groundhog Day, with the situation as it was in 2014. Then, the border was “in crisis.” (“The border crisis is real. That is why Trump is blocking the solutions”, Opinion, January 31)
Then-President Obama had done everything within his authority, absent legislation from Congress, to address it. Republicans criticized him for not doing enough. They declared that his top priority was securing the border. Obama asked Congress to send him a bill.
The Senate passed a bipartisan bill to improve border security and address other immigration issues. Obama indicated that he would sign it. Everything indicated that there were enough votes in the House to pass the bill.
But then-President John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) refused to put the bill to a vote. His excuse was that he couldn't trust Obama to properly implement the legislation if it passed.
In reality, Boehner saw the risk of success as a threat to the GOP's victory in November. The “tea party” threatened his presidency.
Republican Party means “Grand Old Party.” Let's have a contest to truthfully describe this acronym.
Carla St. Romain, Pasadena
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To the editor: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared his state's sovereignty over the central government of the United States.
The executive and judicial branches of the United States government have spoken with one voice on the laws that hold us together as a nation. But Abbott, by defying the Supreme Court and the Biden administration on border security, is flirting with secession and overturning the Constitution.
He accepted the same court's ruling when it overturned Roe v. Wade in a decision he liked. It has become clear that the Republican Party wants to respect only the laws it agrees with. How does it work?
They lose an election and refuse to accept the results. They don't like the court to read the law and do its job, so they use the threat of force to overturn the court's decision.
It sounds and smells like an insurrection.
René Childress, View Park-Windsor Hills
