Republicans just can't stop complaining about President Obama. Mitch McConnell's dirty little plan didn't work to make him a one-term president, nor did voter suppression.

If the do-nothing, filibustering Republicans will just work with Obama, things will get done. There were 137 filibusters during President Obama's first year, unheard of before. Many good things were filibustered: paycheck fairness, elder abuse victims act, the dream act, small business jobs and tax relief act to name only a few. It's time they worked with the president not against him. He is a caring president, and like it or not, he will probably go down in history as the first great African-American president.

And about abortion: I'm a Catholic. I don't believe in abortion, but I do think babies should be born out of love, not rape or incest. Pro choice.

Betty Jansen

Belleville