Readers React:  New House leader, same old problems

To the editor: The tea party wing of the Republican Party is preventing the mainstream from governing. Maybe it is time to take them at their word; they are a separate party. (“GOP rebels win this round,” Sept. 28)

How about a unity government between mainstream Republicans and Democrats? This is often done in a parliamentary system. Perhaps the leaders could take turns being speaker of the House.

This small percent would then realize they are truly a minority.

James Manifold, Claremont

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To the editor: Regarding House Speaker candidate Kevin McCarthy from California’s Central Valley, I kept thinking that I misread this sentence: “McCarthy, who hails from a district with some of the worst air pollution in the country, has opposed legislation regulating greenhouse gases.” As a conservative politician, he of course values jobs and profits over clean air, health, well-being and life itself. (“A louder voice for California growers?” Sept. 27)

Cheryl Kohr, Palos Verdes Estates

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To the editor: The sudden resignation of Speaker John A. Boehner is the latest indicator of the self-destruction of the Republican Party.

The tea party extremists who forced him out are so intractable that even the Republican Party leaders want nothing to do with them.

These extremists continue to push the GOP closer and closer to irrelevance, and if prospective Speaker McCarthy believes that he will fare better with them than Boehner did, he is only kidding himself.

They will present him with the same ultimatum Boehner got: Either we completely get our own way, regardless of the damage it does, or we will force you out too.

Terry Walker, Sylmar

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