Three strikes & you’re out

I was pleasantly surprised to read David Chung's Sept. 22 editorial 'Nothing wrong with party-line voting.” Here we have a Republican State Central Committee member calling for voting a straight ticket - on the Democratic side.

In this election we can vote for the best interests of our country instead of the special interests. We can vote for the political party that has been right on economics, right on global warming and right on human rights.

Republicans predicted that stimulus spending to blunt the effect of the Great Recession would send inflation soaring. Swing and a miss. Since 2008 core inflation has been at or below 2.5 percent a year.

Everywhere we look, it's a warmer world. Of the top 10 warmest years on record, only one occurred before 2002. Strike two!

For a party that claims to be in favor of less government regulation, Republicans are eager to protect marriage by simply outlawing it for a class of people. In Texas two years ago there were 178,900 weddings, zero same-sex marriages and 76,900 divorces. Marriage might need protecting, but same-sex marriage has nothing to do with it.

Strike three. Call it, ump.

Mike Miller

Cedar Rapids