A Sad Green Story

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/opinion/brooks-a-sad-green-story.html?_r=0

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Subject: re: A Sad Green Story
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   To hear David Brooks tell it, our Congress' hyperpartisan dysfunction is president Obama's fault. I ain't buying it. President Obama labored heroically for years to heal the rancor that has been the culture of Congress since New Gingrich's heyday.  In this, he has not succeeded. GOP strategists have preferred to destroy the planet that we will leave to our children rather than to accept that president Obama--or vice president Gore--was right on anything.

  It's seventeen years since senator Bill Bradley walked away from a congress that had already become "dysfunctional" long before president Obama arrived in Washington. As he puts it "we can all do better".

Barry Haskell Levine