Tina Aschenbrenner chooses denial over reality as she ignores the polls and facts in her Dec. 10 letter.

Tina’s feel-good platitudes might get one elected but don’t work well as policy. Results and reality speak for themselves.

An ignored hand slap to Iran with further delay of action and slighted allies hasn’t improved our foreign policy standings. Where is the promised added support from our allies? Russia and China view us as weak. Even Norway said they were disrespected after the president received his award, directly contradicting Tina’s view.

If Tina’s emotional investment and fawning of the president were correct, the country and state would be improving, not worsening.

The public is realizing this as Quinnipiac and Rasmussen polls have the president’s approval at about 46 percent and declining.

As I mentioned before, you and Congress underestimated opposition for so-called healthcare reform. In August, Rasmussen showed about 83 percent of the public currently satisfied with their healthcare, which about matched a similar Washington Post/ABC poll in June at 81 percent; facts that Paul Kessler was nescient of in his Sept. 3 letter entirely based on a false premise.

Quinnipiac shows voters’ disapproval of the oppressive health bill at 52 percent to a declining 38 percent for the legislation Congress is considering. Trillions will be spent with millions still without, plus the president admitted, now 11 months in office, via his job summit that he has no idea what to do about jobs and validated what I wrote months ago, that government doesn’t create growth.

Government intervention got us here. History proves what alleviates this, but our leaders can’t hear through their arrogance. It’s easy to spend other people’s money.

Sixty-five percent say we’re headed in the wrong direction according to Rasmussen.

False crises, class warfare and demonizing of traditional American values aren’t sitting well. Accountability is essential, not Tina’s fantasy. It’s clear the public sees our futures being wasted, the lies, contradictions, lack of experience and poor leadership from a far-left man who seemingly holds many malevolent views of this great country.
Mike Di Fatta
Thousand Oaks