While I am disappointed at Howard Coble's odds (in the coming election), I feel there's distinct anger more toward the Democratic-controlled Congress than toward the White House.

After all, how many Congresses have had approval ratings lower than the president's in recent history? I can't recall many. The fact is that the Democrats got the job two years ago after they screamed a whole lot of promises and IOUs and followed through on hardly any of them. For that I'd give this Congress a big fat F on the report card for lackluster preformance and results.

If any members of Congress were CEOs at major Fortune 500 firms, you can pretty well bet that the board room would have thrown their butts out to the street corner a long time ago. Maybe it's time we do the same to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her gang in November.

We're the ones who voted them in, so there's no reason why we couldn't vote them out.

Dustin Frank

Southern Pines