Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy lacks leadership skills but makes excuses about lack of political momentum

Letters to the Editor published in the Los Angeles Times: If the government shuts down, Kevin McCarthy will bear some of the blame!  

To the editor: An open letter to Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (Republican Representative for Bakersfield California):

Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy is required to demonstrate political leadership.

You’ve created a dilemma for yourself on the budget resolution. While you gave extremist radicals everything they asked for, they still refuse to govern responsibly. 

Although you and President Joe Biden made an agreement to avoid U.S. debt default, the extremists wanted you to dishonor the deal with new spending cuts — and you complied! Nevertheless, your party’s ideologues refuse to fund the government. You yielded to their irresponsible calls to waste time and resources for impeachment without credible evidence, yet those radical Republicans still refuse to support serious governing.

There’s a way out of this dilemma caused by your bad choices. Propose a clean, fully funded continuing resolution with no political stunts riding in sidecars. Surely, you can find four reasonable Republicans (plus yourself) to vote with the Democrats and keep our government going.

There’s a way out of this dilemma caused by your bad choices. Propose a clean, fully funded continuing resolution with no political stunts riding in sidecars. Surely, you can find four reasonable Republicans (plus yourself) to vote with the Democrats and keep our government going.

That’s what real governing, real leadership, would look like.

From Bruce Joffe, in Piedmont, California