Letter: Voters should send Herger into retirement

It's time we Republicans, Democrats and Independents vote Herger into retirement. He has been a huge disappointment. He has been a "rubber stamp," a "lacky" for the Bush-Cheney "Neo-Con" Administration since 2001.

Has he ever authored any major legislation in his 22 years in Congress? Just look at the political and financial disaster he and his "lock-step" Republicans, and some weak-kneed Democrats in Congress have wreaked upon this nation with no Congressional oversight since 2001.

True Republicans don't fit the "Neo-Con" mold — that of Corporate Control of Government. If you make less than $1 million, the Republican elite just suck up your contributions and give you higher taxes, more federal debt and larger government. You're being conned by the "Neo-Cons."

We now have $53 trillion unfunded liability (Social Security Trust Fund Debt, Foreign Debt, Trade Deficit, War debt, et al. Google Unfunded Liabilities).

We, our children, our grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, now owe this great debt to our country and us, thanks to an incompetent, criminally corrupt administration (Kucinich 35 Articles of Impeachment) and a legislature failing its citizens on such a huge scale since 2001.

Herger, Bush, Cheney, and other Republican Legislators have stuck us with a $9 trillion deficit in eight years. We started 2001 with a $500 million surplus. And, we were lied into a war. This administration gets most of the blame.

Further, Herger, and other Republican cronies, raped the public by voting to take our Constitutional rights away from all of us.

No longer do we have the right of Habeas Corpus (6th Amendment).

No longer do we have the right of privacy (4th Amendment).

No longer can we enjoy freedom when the president, vice president and/or Attorney General have the right to arrest us, confine us, interrogate us, rendition us, torture us, deny us the right to legal representation, to see evidence against us and confront our accusers (Military Commissions Act).

Herger took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Why didn't he?

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against the Bush Administration five times on these violations against our Constitution. Can you give us any reason why Herger should be re-elected?

William A. Liechti

Marysville