Letter: A three-week spitting contest
(Evan Vucci | The Associated Press) In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, Vice President Mike Pence, center, listens as President Donald Trump argues with House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. Across the world, people are questioning truths they had long held to be self-evident, and they are dismissing some of them as fake news. They are replacing traditions they had long seen as immutable with haphazard reinvention. In the United States, a president who some accuse of upending ideals that the nation holds dear is aggressively abandoning protocol and customs that have prevailed through a dozen of his predecessors.
By Pierre Carlson | The Public Forum
| Jan. 23, 2019, 2:15 p.m.
Lean back, close your eyes and picture this scene.
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sitting on the curb in a vicious spitting contest. They have been at it for over three weeks and the score is still tied.
Then, across the street, there is a line of dedicated, furloughed U.S. government workers lined up at the local food bank for some groceries to get them by until they get another paycheck. Doesn't it just make you feel warm and fuzzy about the current state of our federal government?
Pierre Carlson, Millcreek
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