Thank you, Rep. I had been suffering from sleeplessness
lately and your recent (Jan. 6) political fact check on Rep. Renacci’s voting
has put my mind at ease. Who knew that rival political parties spun voting
records to cast opponents in an unfavorable light?
Now that The Rep has set the record straight that the
Congressman did indeed “vote for a bill to keep tax cut,” maybe in the interest
of equal time The Rep can also clear up other unfortunate rumors regarding the other
party, for example:
-President Obama hates America, puppies, and little kids (4
million additional children now receive healthcare through S-CHIP programs
under the Obama Administration).
-With Ohio’s Richard Cordray being sworn in as the head of
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just the other day, is it true that
Pres. Obama is the first president to ever use recess appointments? (Wikipedia
cites that Pres. Bush used recess appointments 171 times during his
administration).
-Recent commercials assert that Sen. Sherrod Brown “voted to
block American energy production and increase energy taxes” (such claims
declared “mostly false” by politicfact.com).
-Has Pvt. Bradley Manning been tried yet for his role in
Wikileaks? (last I heard, it’s been nearly two years and still no “fair and
speedy trial” as guaranteed under our Constitution).
-Did Pres. Obama really sign the National Defense
Authorization Act that would allow him and future presidents to hold
indefinitely even U.S. citizens who are accused (not necessarily
convicted) of terrorist activity?
-Did Obama really assassinate a U.S. Citizen without
due process as guaranteed in our Constitution? (In September, U.S. citizen and
accused terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi was in fact killed in an air-strike abroad on
the orders of our President).
I wish the last three items weren’t true, but I include them
because even as a Democrat I expect better of our President; we should all
expect more from our politicians and our news media, entities who fail us when
they pick sides and serve interests other than those of the “publick good.”
*a version of this piece previously appeared in The Canton Repository
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