Letter: Why no outrage when the House passes a six-month spending bill?

Roger Walker, Fort Pierce


Where's the outrage? Where are the outrage, hullabaloo, filibusters, accusatory speeches? Where's the Tea Party? On Sept. 13 the GOP-led House quietly passed a six-month spending bill. I read it in the back pages of this newspaper.

Last year when President Barack Obama had to make the decision to pay our country's bills, he was referred to as everything from irresponsible to communist, Marxist, Muslim extremist and socialist. The speaker of the House was seen on television grandstanding in speech after speech fighting the president's every move. I find it very ironic when the GOP is put to the same task, the same decision is made quietly, without any fanfare.

Strict partisan politics will be the ruin of this country. Until our elected officials act in the best interest of America and not as Democrats and Republicans first, we the citizens will suffer. In politics today, you say anything to get a vote, whether it's the truth or not. Unfortunately once elected they do anything to keep the cushy job, and if that means hiding behind a political party, so be it.

So as the election draws near, please don't just listen to the rhetoric from either side, and don't ignore the other side because you've always ignored the other side. Neither side is always right or wrong. We have a multiparty system, because we are a democracy. Do some fact-finding of your own. Hold those elected officials responsible for their actions and lack of actions.