It is with little surprise and great sadness I note a number of people, especially students, writing in to extol the virtues of David Reichert as our congressional representative. I understand how meeting a congressperson, and especially feeling that one was heard, and acknowledged, might go a long way towards engendering feelings of a working political system and true representation of working class Americans.

Unfortunately, once you look past a few isolated, local instances of Reicherts’ apparent involvement, and largely symbolic legislative issues, we are left with a voting record that marches lock-step with the do-nothing, anti-progress Congress, whose only real motivation seems to be to disagree with anything the Senate or the White House tries to advance.

It’s not that Democrats are getting much done, but there is a huge difference in the ideology of the two parties. It might not be so hard to take if the GOP leadership didn’t take such delight in announcing that their only real goal is to prevent Democrats and the president from being able to accomplish anything.

Perhaps if Mr. Reichert and his Republican cohorts would at least advance a plan, any plan, for health care, border protection, Social Security, infrastructure, jobs, the tax code, or any of the other myriad problems facing this country, I might not be so disgusted by Reicherts voting record, and his parties complete and utter disdain for working class Americans.

Steven Baker, Sammamish