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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

This is not your father’s Republican Party

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters as Congress returns to work days before a government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 26. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

What’s going on with our country? We used to have rules and leaders who adhered to them. Now it’s a free-for-all. All Republicans must pledge an oath to someone who incited a riot against the U.S. Constitution.

Republicans are not doing their job to prevent a shutdown. Their leader says, “If you don’t get everything you want, shut ‘em down.” A bunch of pathetic dogs, following, sniffing around, hoping to get a table scrap.

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