{"id":6456,"date":"2013-10-06T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2013-10-06T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:05:37","slug":"my-way-or-the-highway-attitude-is-killing-gop-or-maybe-its-rabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/my-way-or-the-highway-attitude-is-killing-gop-or-maybe-its-rabies\/","title":{"rendered":"‘My way or the highway’ attitude is killing GOP — or maybe it’s rabies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018My way or the highway\u2019 attitudes are killing GOP | ABQJournal Online<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Today (Tuesday, Oct. 1), my wife and I went to the Sandoval County Bureau of Elections office to change our voter registration affiliation from independent \u2014 our status since we first became eligible to vote more than a half-century ago \u2014 to Democrat. <\/p>\n

We did so because the Republican Party has ceded all power to the most radical element within its ranks \u2014 a noisy, anarchic clique of political yahoos whose \u201cmy way or the highway\u201d attitudes have reduced Congress to a state of impotency, as well as making considerable mischief in state and local governments. (Rio Rancho is a prime example of the latter.) <\/p>\n

Hence, our new political affiliation. We are determined to be part of the effort to save the U.S. from feckless, irresponsible zealotry. Unless a viable alternative one day arises, we will maintain that affiliation, as we await the day when Republicans complete their party\u2019s self-destruction. <\/p>\n

It cannot come soon enough. It\u2019s a sad end for a once-grand old party, but we see no hope for a turnabout. <\/p>\n

Daniel Cobb <\/p>\n

Rio Rancho<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2018My way or the highway\u2019 attitudes are killing GOP | ABQJournal Online<\/a><\/p>\n

Fanatics should be checked for rabies | ABQJournal Online<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Unbelievable. A small cabal has shut down the most powerful country in the world. <\/p>\n

A handful of fanatics has forced a vote 44 times, spending about 100 million dollars to do so, to repeal a law that will save the lives of tens of thousands of Americans suffering from easily treated medical issues. <\/p>\n

Has anyone checked these yoyos for rabies? <\/p>\n

ADELE E. ZIMMERMANN <\/p>\n

Embudo<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fanatics should be checked for rabies | ABQJournal Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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