LETTERS: POLITICIANS LOSING SIGHT OF THE GOAL

To the editor:

I know that everyone is getting sick and tired of the impeachment hearings and Sexgate.

If anyone bothered or cared to listen to the opening of the impeachment inquiry, you obviously heard how partisan the whole process has become. All the Democrats care to talk about is how our illustrious commander in chiefs sex life is a private matter and how the people of our country have no right to that information. What the Democrats keep forgetting is that this whole process is about perjury. It just so happened that our president decided to commit perjury over his sexual conduct. You cant blame the president for wanting to keep the sexual matters private, but perjury is a felony, and the president should not be treated any differently than you or I.I believe the whole political process in our country has become so partisan that the system is in danger of no longer working as our forefathers had envisioned many years ago. There are no issues that are black and white anymore. Every issue has become Republican or Democrat. If the Republicans are on one side of an issue, odds are the Democrats will be on the other side, or vice versa.

I believe our elected officials are losing sight of why they were sent to Washington. They were sent to do what is best for the people of their districts, not to make decisions that will keep them in Washington for a lifelong career. I believe too many of the elected officials in Washington have been there too long and are only worried about keeping their positions, not worried about what is best for this country.

I believe that in light of all the partisan attacks in recent years it is time for term limits to keep our elected officials from making a career out of politics. It seems the longer our elected officials are in Washington, the more partisan they become.

All we can do is hope that our elected officials will see the light and do what is best for their districts and the country and not do something just because the other party is on the other side of the issue.

MIKE SEABAUGH

Jackson