A Sun Journal editorial titled, “A waste of time in D.C.” deserves a rebuttal (Nov. 16). The article attempts to discredit Senate Republicans, bringing attention to the Democrat filibuster on presidential judicial nominations.

This editorial, in my opinion, really stretches the truth test. I’m referencing the 40-hour marathon session conducted by Senate Republicans.

For the first time, since the U.S. Constitution was ratified, a minority political party employed a filibuster to kill or delay presidential appointments to the U.S. Circuit Court. This is a precedent-setting action, which, long-term, could have devastating effects on all other nominations.

As a moderate, I was shocked by the extremely biased direction presented by the author and how it differed dramatically from what I had watched on C-Span the previous week. Most knowledgeable persons reading the Lewiston Sun Journal know its editorials are slanted toward the left, but those of us more centrally located along the political spectrum should expect, at a minimum, truthful facts coming from its editors, not innuendo and hyperbole.

Yes, thousands of moderates pay yearly subscription rates, too.

I want to clearly state the following. No, I repeat, no Republican minority has ever conducted a filibuster against a Democratic majority nominee once that nominee has been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee and sent to the full Senate for an up-or-down vote. Never, ever, in the history of the U.S. Senate. Never.

Norm Foster, Bryant Pond

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