Chris Van Buskirk, in his “Pols & Politics” piece on March 9, suggests that former President Joe Biden should have stepped out of the presidential race “early enough to give Kamala Harris a shot at winning.” In fact, Biden should have stepped out of the race early enough for the Democratic National Convention to nominate a candidate other than Harris. It was a hopeless election. Harris could have campaigned for a year and she would have lost to Donald Trump.
Harvey A. Silverglate
Cambridge
The same media outlets that at best ignored, at worst suppressed the evidence of a real recession during the Biden years are now yelling “RECESSION!” in a crowded theater. Sane Americans and readers of Thomas Sowell realize these conditions are the market begining a long overdue correction, as tariffs and DOGE start to bring the industrial base back to America, wean our corporations off of inflationary federal subsidies, and stabilize the stock market for a long bull market, .
“Fears of recession,” give us a break.
Nick McNulty
Windham N.H.
Kudos to Betsy McCaughey for her commentary (“No, Republicans aren’t gutting Medicaid,” Boston Herald, March 7) warning us to be ready for the bombardment of ghoulish ads warning about grandmothers dying and children denied needed cancer treatments “just to make billionaires like Elon Musk even richer.”
These fundraising ads began running before President Trump even arrived at the Capitol to deliver his address to Congress. During the speech, Democrats held up paddles messaging “Save Medicaid” too. Full demagoguery going forward for Dems combating GOP efforts to tame federal spending on Medicaid and stabilize the nation’s ever-growing debt.
US Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill shrieked, “People will die.” US Rep. Al Green, D-Texas also stood up in the chamber to yell at the president waving his cane, which by the way earned him House censure the following day. As McCaughey stated in her piece, “These are lies. The needy are not going to lose their health care, and the demagogues know it.”
It is all theater, just as the display in the House on March 6 when Democrats rushed to the well at the front of the chamber singing “We Shall Overcome” and shutting down House business with their faux moral outrage over the censure that Rep. Green deserved for his antics during the presidential speech.
If the Democrats don’t get their act together and fast, they will find themselves totally irrelevant in short order. Donald Trump doesn’t want to privatize the US Postal Service, defund PBS, “Sesame Street” or as the latest fundraising pitch from the Democratic Governors Association warns us that Trump “is threatening to withhold federal funding for states that don’t fall in line with his personal demands.” Personal demands? Like following federal law?
Sal Giarratani
East Boston
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