I can no longer remain silent concerning the editorial cartoons you choose to run in this paper. Week after week, we are subjected to anti-Republican sentiment by our political cartoonist. You never seem to care about any political balance in your editorial cartoon. Is your liberal bias so complete that you do not even realize that you have lost any fairness or balance?

I especially laughed, or is it cried, at the canoe going over the falls on Saturday, March 31. From my perspective, it is the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives that are trying to keep this country from going over the waterfall with huge deficits that our current president has made even worse than the previous administration.

The Republican House has passed a budget plan that will save Medicare and Social Security for future generations and put us on the path toward deficit reduction and a balanced budget. The Democrats choose to ignore any serious attempts at deficit reduction and reining in government spending.

It is the Republicans who are trying to keep us from going over the deficit cliff. When the Democrats had control of the House, Senate and White House, they refused to pass a budget. Shame on them for not doing their job. I hope the American people are realizing how close we are coming to going over that waterfall of debt that the Democrats are aiming toward.

Martha Cantwell

Oak Harbor