Just a puppet

Let’s just put aside the juvenile name calling by Cathy McMorris Rodgers and VP Mike Pence of Lisa Brown as Liberal, for the moment. What has Cathy McMorris Rodgers done that is consistent with Conservative Republican values? As far as I know, Conservative Republican values includes limited government, balanced budgets and reducing government debt. In the last omnibus budget, she inserted a provision that props up the price Medicare pays for a handful of medications that includes support for a west side company called Omeros, costing taxpayers millions at a time when we should be reducing the cost of prescription drugs.

Further, Republicans have in years past have favored free trade, a policy that has benefitted the 9th district. Donald Trump has dumped the TransPacific Partnership that would have benefitted U.S. farmers and auto manufacturers and limited the influence of China in southeast Asia.

What has Cathy done? Just looked pretty standing behind Paul Ryan as the highest-ranking female Republican member of the House of Representatives, but not pushed for her constituents’ needs.

Cathy can brand Lisa as liberal, but Cathy’s no conservative! She is just a puppet of President Donald Trump, supporting his harebrained policies, even if it directly harms her constituents.

--Charlotte K Omoto, Pullman