House Republicans’ coming investigations are just honest payback for the last 4 years

Goes around, comes around

Paul Waldman’s Nov. 22 commentary “Welcome to the Congress of endless investigations” (7A) is an unbalanced view. The Democratic majority in Congress over the last four years has done highly biased investigations of a variety of conservatives, including two impeachment show trials and the one-sided Jan. 6 hearings as made-for-TV prime-time extravaganzas.

It seems that when Republican lawmakers follow the Democratic playbook, some suddenly want to call foul. It’s OK to have op-ed columns, but can you find a little more balanced approach?

- Kenneth M. Sapp, Granbury

Congress needs to do real work

Imagine a workplace where employees spend days waging war with one another. No goods or services are produced, and the company fails. This is a picture of our dysfunctional government at all levels. Our problems grow larger as elected officials battle the opposition with misinformation, investigations and crazy stunts.

How will months of investigation of Hunter Biden make your life better? Did the endless sessions on Hillary Clinton’s emails improve your circumstances? It surely distracts the electorate from the lack of engagement on real problems. Maybe that’s the goal.

- Loveta Eastes, Fort Worth

Won’t make Trump mistake again

The Constitution gives responsibility and authority to the states and Congress for the presidential election. On Jan. 6, 2021, all the states had certified their elections. The courts had adjudicated President Donald Trump’s legal challenges and found them to be without merit. At about the time Congress was beginning its constitutional work of election certification, Trump spoke to the large crowd that had gathered, fomenting emotions that resulted in a riot aimed at disrupting the work of Congress.

In giving this speech, Trump was standing in the way of Congress and acting in opposition to the peaceful transfer of power, a foundational principle of the great experiment of the American form of government.

You get to decide for yourself, but I voted for Trump twice and will not vote for him again.

- Elmo Collins, Mansfield

Just follow the golden rule

This question from a survivor of the Colorado Springs Club Q mass shooting touches me deeply: “Where can we go to be safe?”

I thought: Some parents reject LGBT people. Some ministers exclude them. Some schools erase them. Some nightclubs discriminate against them.

All people deserve to be safe wherever they go. Let’s recommit ourselves to the essential value: Treat others as we wish to be treated.

- Rita Cotterly, Fort Worth

So unfair to Herschel Walker

The Nov. 26 story about Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s Tarrant County home was a “November surprise” hit piece. (1A, “Herschel Walker gets tax break on $3 million Westlake home”) The headline screams about his “tax break,” as though he got special treatment, but the “break” was the homestead exemption, available to most of us who own our homes.

The story implies he claimed the 2021 Texas exemption improperly because he also claimed Georgia residency in 2021 by registering to vote. But did he live in the Texas home long enough to qualify for the 2021 exemption before moving to Georgia?

- Gary W. Cumbie, Fort Worth

This story was originally published November 29, 2022 at 5:31 AM.