The Mercury’s Sound Off for Saturday, March 15

The Democrats need more people like Crissy Houlahan. She joined nine other brave Democrats to vote to censure Texas Rep. Al Green. She probably made some enemies for life in the party. I think many Democrats wanted to vote with her, but it was too hot to handle.

Logical Bob

If Biden or Harris were President, Zelenskyy would have walked away with a $5 billion check. But President Trump wouldn’t even give Zelenskyy a Big Mac after insulting the taxpayers of the USA.

Billy G.

No one in their right mind wants to see government waste, inefficiency, or bloat. To imply otherwise shows our dilemma. This is what happens when you listen to right-wing lunatics telling you that your fellow Americans are the enemy. I know Trump supporters want an efficient government, too. What I question is where they get their information and the facts they rely upon.

KC

Wow! What a great speech Donald Trump gave on Tuesday night. He finally got his revenge after 4 years of degradation. He is upsetting the swamp by doing everything right, unlike other presidents who were just happy to get along. Do you get the feeling that maybe you’ve been voting for the wrong party for a long time after watching that shameful bunch of heartless Democrats at this most telling event?

Truth Be Told

77% of Americans support a “full examination of all government expenditures” … 72% agree there should be a government agency focused on efficiency … 70% say government is filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency. Two-thirds say that Congress should join the effort. These numbers are from a Harvard-CAPS-Harris Poll from February 19-20, 2025.

H John

Hey, MAGA, let’s clear a few things up: 1. Courts can overturn unconstitutional laws. 2. An executive order isn’t a law. 3. Presidents can’t make laws without Congress. Judges blocking Trump? That’s called Checks and balances.

RealAmerica

They refused to clap even for the American citizens that Trump honored. They couldn’t stand and clap for steel workers, farmers, the mothers of children who had been murdered, or the young man with brain cancer, etc. But they were willing to clap for sending additional hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. They showed that they are willing to put politics before the American People. Sad.

Barney

For months, MAGA Sound Off commenters claimed, without credible evidence, the Biden administration was “cooking the books” re: unemployment, economic data. The Trump administration is currently firing employees, shutting down agencies and departments that compile and analyze that data, as well as other data related to American activities, in a non-partisan way. Bottom line: Information from the Trump administration will no longer be credible or trustworthy. You’ve been warned!

Are we feeling better yet? War in Ukraine, tension in Gaza, Russia in Syria! Prices for groceries and eggs up. Stock markets are in a free fall, tax cuts for the rich. Medicaid being slashed, with Medicare and Social Security next. Tariffs will cause dramatic cost in housing, cars and just about everything we use. For a guy that went bankrupt 6 times, he is going for 7. Sorta miss Joe about now!

JB in Limerick

KC, here you go again! You say DOGE is publishing classified security information and wants people’s bank and Social Security accounts. Where did you come up with this? BTW unelected bureaucrats already have access, Just Curious. Also, “RealAmerica” Bless your heart, too! SpaceX received millions from NASA, golly, probably SpaceX was needed to do something NASA couldn’t!

Just the facts!

While America was reduced to ruins over the four years Biden and Harris were in charge, the Democrat Party, their mainstream media, and their unhinged Never Trump cult sat quietly. It’s laughable that they’re so critical of their new president after just a few weeks of being in office.

EPA Director Lee Zeldon will slash $65 billion from its budget. EPA has ballooned to over 15,000 employees, so it needed a haircut badly. Zeldon has uncovered some shocking mismanagement of taxpayer funds, noting that billions of dollars were sent to left-wing nonprofits disguised as environmental initiatives. That’s common sense, something Washington has been sorely lacking.

Truth Patrol

The Democrats proved to the entire world that they are an unserious group of people who are unfit to rule. We can never let them hold power ever again.

Righty Tighty

My biggest takeaway from Trump’s address is that the Democrats and their party are completely broken. The optics could not have been worse. The Democrats have been relegated to holding signs in the corner and pouting while Trump cleans up the mess they created.

Shadow

As in an earlier prediction, Republicans are very happy with what Trump is doing until it affects them. Now it’s happening. Republicans in Congress are scrambling to get exemptions to save the people in their districts from losing government contracts, jobs, medical care, and many services that they depend on. It’s OK as long as it affects “other people”, not us. Are you starting to see that Trump doesn’t care about you?

Shredding out the fabric of our Constitutional Republic, shredding our government’s mission to serve their constituents, shredding our economy. Using our tax dollars to fund their progressive pet projects. That was/is the Democrat Party. Great job, Trump voters, voting to Make America Great Again! Pay no attention to the leftist lunatics. You know who is shaking in his borscht now? Joe Biden’s boss, Vladimir Putin. That’s who.

CK

The new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) produced an estimated savings of $65 billion after only a few weeks of work. Most of this was waste and inefficiency, but the FBI has opened a fraud investigation on a last-minute deal where Biden’s EPA directed $20 billion to several non-government entities. The FBI will determine if this is criminal or just more Biden administration incompetence.

Robert Minninger

The Maine governor and Maine Democrats are trying to silence a state representative’s freedom of speech after she denounced a biological male winning the state pole FEMALE pole-vaulting championship. Kudos to Martina Navratilova for condemning the Maine Governor for allowing biological males to compete against females. Praying for sanity to return to Maine.

Jane “The Real Moderate” Batdorf

JR, all of my friends call me “Fitchy.” Welcome to my “inner circle.” Could it be that you’re a “closet admirer?”

Jim Fitch

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