Letter: GOP fear grows as Election Day looms

Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006 | 7:18 a.m.

Republicans are beginning to panic as the November election date draws closer. They realize that their grip on Congress may be in jeopardy if the Democrats sweep the election in either or both houses.

In the past the boogeyman was Bill Clinton and every political ill imaginable was blamed on him. The Republicans continue to blame him for taxes, war, high gasoline prices, extreme public indebtedness, illegal immigration, corruption scandals and anything else they cannot face as their own handiwork.

In addition to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, the Republicans now have a new target of opportunity and it is Nancy Pelosi, who may become speaker with a Democratic House majority. She is now being portrayed as the new "Wicked Witch of the West" with all kinds of possible horrors being attributed to her if she becomes the new speaker. All kinds of imagined horrors and scenarios are being advanced to create fear about a Democratic election victory in November.

I get sweaty palms and spend sleepless nights thinking about the Bush administration having absolute majority control of both houses for the next two years. What kind of additional damage can they do to us with majority control until the presidential election in 2008?

God help us all if they continue with majority control of Congress and finally manage to do serious damage to Social Security, Medicare, public education and other programs that have benefited the middle class over the past 75 years!

Virgil A. Sestini, Las Vegas