GOP: Oil stains on its canvas

Republicans deregulated the banking, health care, mining, and oil industries to prove to us that when private industries are left alone, America will prosper. Let us see who has actually prospered.

 Bankers bankrupted our nation, health care monoplies have our lives held hostage, hard working miners are dead, and the oil industry has delivered us the biggest ecological disaster in history.

Our nation is in ruin, our gulf shores are destroyed, thousands of Americans are dead, and the GOP who enabled this accepts no blame.

 We have watched congressional investigative panels grill these crooks that have paid themselves billions for our demise. This was an inconvenience for them to leave their yachts in the Cayman Islands while we dig graves for the dead, and desperately try to clean up their messes. To my knowledge, all of these self-proclaimed patriots in front of judges are Republicans.

 However, the biggest travesty of all is watching millions of hard-working Americans proudly march right into the voting booths with crude oil on their shoes vote in another Republican. You betcha!

JIMMY PAPPAS

Coeur d’Alene