SnakeRiverLib

The following is an open letter to the Speaker of the House. Madam Speaker, While I am not a constituent of your Congressional District, nor is my member a member of your caucus, I am writing to you as a Constituent of the House of Representatives, which you have the privilege of leading for this session of Congress.  Too often our political system is bogged down in the morass of the swamp of DC.  I don't use the term the way the President does, by the way, but rather as a frustration of people in the nation that can clearly see that DC doesn't work.  We all see it.  President Trump was elected because it didn't work.  Do you understand that?  Millions of Democrats went to the polls in 2016 and pulled the lever for Trump because they felt alienated.  I am writing because you have taken an oath of office, are second in succession to the Presidency, and you have a job to do. Madam Speaker, you took an oath to uphold the Constitution.  I know that you do that, accordin

Yes, a moral issue showing up on the Lib.  However it is far more political than moral at this point. First, I would just like to point out that previous opinions offered here have been simply my own.  Today, for the first time, I am writing with an accreditation in Political Science.  So you may now give my "educated" opinion the appropriate due. Can we say, since Roe vs Wade was decided in 1973, that while there have been skirmishes from time to time, the US has been in a state of detente when it comes to this issue?  The American people support abortion for the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.  After 20 weeks, that opinion sharply changes, with 75%  against aborting late term pregnancies, with the asterisked exception of the life or health of the mother. This long term detente is over.  It is war.  Full disclosure, my personal opinion is that abortion is wrong, but that it was the law of the land, with restrictions.  So, what broke the peace? Simple.  We all remember