President should resign; country would survive

Re “Bush’s third term,” editorial, April 23

If Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should resign, why not President Bush? Is he not ultimately responsible for the series of bad decisions that have left the country far worse off than it was in 2001? I am sick of all the Bush critics and apologists lacking the spine to address this central issue. The president has been incompetent, has allegedly violated our laws and has advocated policies to reward his corporate donors at the expense of the public interest. He should either resign or be removed from office.

This would not destabilize the country because our founding fathers provided for such a process when they drew up the Constitution.

What does threaten the fabric of the nation is a press corps that will not speak truth to power, a Congress and a minority party that will not assert themselves to check the power of the executive, and a people who are distracted, ill-informed and ill-equipped to make thoughtful decisions to help govern and lead this country. For the sake of the nation, Bush must go.

RAVI MAHALINGAM

Los Angeles

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Despite your editorial, President Bush will continue on with his near-neurotic compulsion to cling to his comfort cushions, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

After all, Bush’s mentor, Karl Rove, will no longer be immediately at his elbow. Dr. Fix-All will be away attending to Bush’s greatest fear: the election of a Democratic Congress and the specter of impeachment soon to follow. Therefore, we can expect an even closer association between Rove and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with its bulging moneybags, in the months to come.

JACQUELINE KERR

Glendale