Fenty should run for re-election as a Republican
I fully support the D.C. GOP’s nomination of Adrian Fenty to run for re-election as a Republican. The gains made in this city under the Williams and Fenty administrations are the only hope I have that I can make the District my permanent home.
I’ve been a D.C. resident since 2001. One day I have will have children, and the quality of the schools and the safety of the neighborhoods will be priority one for my family.
Brian Wrenn
Washington
Democrats own the Obama recession
The era of Bush bashing is over. Last week, President Obama found a new reason why he is so powerless: minority Republican opposition in Congress.
In 2003, then-minority Democrats opposed any tax cuts required to expire in 2011 because of Senate rules on taxes and deficits. Since Bush was president, they became the “Bush tax cuts”. Even with overwhelming Democratic control of the White House and Congress, Republicans are supposedly at fault for the tax increases caused by Democratic opposition in 2003.
Perhaps some may find it encouraging that our president declares himself to be impotent in the face of a small minority of opposition in Congress, but it does not speak well of him. Obama’s predecessors enacted major tax changes even when Congress was in the hands of the opposition party, as Ronald Reagan did in 1981.
If Obama now says that a president has no control of the economy when there is even the slightest opposition in Congress, we can no longer blame Bush since the Democrats took majority control in 2007. Thank you, Speaker Pelosi, for the Obama recession.
Jack Adams
Washington
Walking away from mortgage is unethical
Lack of responsibility, lack of commitment, lack of honoring your word — and a legally binding contract — that’s what’s wrong with today’s society.
When you buy a home, you’re committing to pay that mortgage regardless of future appreciation and/or loss of value. You’ve taken a chance that the home will appreciate. If it does, you make a handsome profit. If it doesn’t, you still have a nice place to live. The lender also took a chance, assured by your good credit and the legally binding contract you signed that you will repay the loan.
Whatever happened to integrity, honor and keeping your word?
Jeff Underwood
Fulton, M
