Letters: Readers discuss Chiefs’ big Super Bowl win and Senate’s big impeachment vote
Tables turned
It’s funny how in team sports, one man can make such a difference. The Kansas City Royals were dominated by San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner in the 2014 World Series.
This year, Kansas City got its revenge on San Francisco with Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes leading the way.
From a Bay Area sports fan, I tip my hat. Enjoy your parade.
- Scott Mason, Burlingame, California
Ma-Holmes?
Now that this wonderful season has ended with a Super Bowl victory, let’s start a petition to rename Holmes Road to Mahomes Road.
- Dan Meier, Loch Lloyd
Custody fight
There is talk that Kansas City, Kansas, will sue Kansas City, Missouri, for possession of the Chiefs. And I figure a native American tribe will seek to intervene. Suddenly, everyone wants the Chiefs. Congrats.
- Gary Wesley, Mountain View, California
All the way
As a lifelong Philadelphia Eagles fan, I was rooting for Andy Reid and the Chiefs. They have shown future football players a great lesson: Never doubt yourselves as a person or as a team.
Congratulations to Kansas City and all its fans for a great season, and for a thrilling and well-earned Super Bowl.
- Edward J. Knorr, Williamstown, New Jersey
Super Bowl offense
Watching the Super Bowl halftime performance, I thought I was at a strip club. I was appalled. Watching the game is supposed to be a family time.
I called my friend who was having a party with many friends who had children with them. She said they had to turn it off. Even my grown kids were texting me asking what was going on. Everyone I have talked to was shocked and disgusted.
Will they ever get the halftime entertainment right?
- Peggy Corlee, Kansas City
Third choice
Impeachment is a very severe step for Congress to consider. Democrats think it should be a remedy for a president who used his power in dangerous and questionable ways.
It seems that this is conceded by many in the Senate, including many Republicans, but they say it does not rise to the level of meriting the president’s removal.
The Constitution has a remedy: censure, as an oversight on future misdoings of a president who has shown that he will use any means to ensure his re-election.
For many decades, I have been blessed to live in this great country where freedom of the press and freedom of speech rely on the honesty and integrity of our elected officials to do the right thing.
This beautiful experiment of democracy is in a fragile state. We are sadly divided.
Perhaps censure would satisfy both sides until the election, and we the people could decide how we want to move forward feeling that it was fairly done.
- Barbara Alley, Olathe
We need answers
On Saturday, I sent emails to Sens. Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts and to the Kansas Republican Party. I asked that the senators hold a town hall meeting in Johnson County.
I believe they need to explain their refusal to have witnesses and administration documents in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. The senators need to explain their actions to the people who elected them.
- Karen Bradfield, Lenexa
Logical conclusion
About four years ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to allow the Senate even to consider President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. That refusal was supposedly because a presidential election cycle had already commenced.
Now Sen. Lamar Alexander and other Republicans will not vote for the removal of President Donald Trump — even as they agree that Trump might have committed impeachable acts — because again we are in a presidential election cycle, and they say the electorate needs to speak instead.
These decisions call for the Senate to cease all confirmations of presidential appointments and other matters except for routine work and to allow the electoral process to finish.
- Steve Schwegler, Liberty
Power gone
We are witnessing the emasculation of the U.S. Senate. Once the vote comes in Wednesday not to remove the president from office, the world’s greatest deliberative body will be no more.
Senators, stop wasting my tax dollars and go home. I’m tired of supporting you.
- Debbie Turner, Stilwell