Our southern border is a complete disaster with 7 million reported illegal immigrants – including confirmed MS-13 members, terrorists, murderers and child rapists – having crashed into our country during the Biden years, and rather than spending time and money to stop that, the Biden administration is suing border states that are erecting any kinds of barriers to stop this. If this is not grounds for impeachment, I don’t know what is.
Nick McNulty
WIndham, NH
Responding to: “Biden out to appease progressives on fossil fuels.” (Jan. 26, 2024).
LNG terminals and methane gas are not just bad for our future
environment, they immediately harm the health of nearby communities,
This is something many readers of the Herald need to be aware of.
When methane is released, it’s 80 times worse for the climate than CO2, over a 20-year span. Big fossil fuel companies stand to make a ton of money from the expansion of gas. Customers stand to pay higher bills. We, the people, take the risks and the corporations reap the benefits.
When President Biden says “no” to these terminals and LNG, he is
saying “yes” to cleaner, sustainable energy solutions that actually
benefit consumers. By putting the planet first instead of catering to
corporations and the fossil fuel lobby he is acting for all of us.
President Biden is acting for our present health and our future
survival. If that is “woke” maybe we all should become insomniacs.
Norah Dooley
Royalston
Apparently the 6’8” senator from Pennsylvania has recovered from his stroke and ensuing bout with depression. Lately, however, he’s being plagued by an even deeper affliction that is not endearing him to his fellow Democrats. It’s called common sense. He’s calling out certain aspects of the left’s agenda and that’s making Republicans smile.
Another Democrat has seen the light and it’s more red than
blue.
David Kelly
Norfolk
Governor Healey files legislation to allow municipalities to raise taxes.
Then she says the bill itself is “not raising taxes.” She says it merely allows communities to increase revenue for services like schools and parks. Cross out “schools and parks” and write in “teachers’ unions and government employees.”
What absolute gall to actually say that with what I assume is a straight face. It’s a classic example of Progressive Double Talk.
If I didn’t laugh, I’d cry.
Frank Olivieri
North Fort Myers, FL
As the 2024 presidential election heats up, what are the American priorities for a safe and prosperous life that they would like the winner to support. Depending on where you live and your status they may vary and you may not find the candidate who can fill all your needs.
A few surveyed priorities are: inflation, jobs, heath care, immigration, abortion, civil unrest and violent crime.
Also bearing on the election this year is the funding and supply of military hardware to the wars in the Ukraine and Gaza. With a $34 trillion national debt we will have limited resources for both.
Our current leading candidates have both been elected president and have a history of their ability to solve difficult concerns. Our living standard is at stake with the results of this year’s presidential election.
We will need a strong, intelligent and resourceful leader.
Bob Sweeney
Warwick, RI
Chris Van Buskirk’s report in your issue of Jan. 25, that “a bipartisan group of voters” are challenging Donald Trump’s eligibility to be on the presidential primary ballot in Massachusetts, is a perfect example of how hyper-partisanship has tossed all notions of propriety to the winds.
Massachusetts is part of a larger democracy. It has the oldest Constitution in the Western hemisphere, with a Declaration of Rights older than the federal Constitution’s Bill of Rights. And yet Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan has asked the oldest continuously sitting tribunal in the Western Hemisphere, our Supreme Judicial Court, to disqualify a citizen – Donald Trump – from appearing as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. Such decisions rightfully belong to the voters, not to unelected judges. I say this despite the fact that I am not a political supporter of the former president.
Harvey A. Silverglate
Cambridge
(Silverglate is a criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer and writer. Disclosure: He is co-counsel for John Eastman, a co-defendant of Trump in the Georgia prosecution.)
Hopefully Joe Battenfeld had tongue firmly planted in cheek when he wrote that former president Trump should force the debate issue with President Biden demanding three 90-minute debates with his successor. (“Biden Playing Chicken Over Debates,” Jan. 25). Isn’t this the same Trump who eschewed debating members of his own party on a number of occasions? Let’s assume they are their party’s respective standard bearers, which is looking like a fait accompli, do we really want to see two angry old (emphasis added) men on a stage yelling at and complaining about each other? Rehashing old ideas and trying to convince the American people who is the least corrupt? I don’t want either and am hoping No Labels follows through with its teased presidential candidate. To turn a Howie Carr phrase, how can we miss Biden and Trump when they won’t go away?
Paul Stewart
Quincy