The end of the longest gov't shutdown: Letters

Post readers sound off on the recent government shutdown and the US Mint's decision to stop producing pennies. MediaPunch / BACKGRID

The Issue: Democrats at last allow the US government to reopen after the longest shutdown ever.

For 43 days, America saw a major party wallow, bellow and degrade itself for no good cause, as they have done before ( “Federal gov’t finally reopens,” Nov. 13).

The Democrats are now a joke, and their “leaders” aren’t real leaders.

Richard Klitzberg

Boca Raton

Let’s call this shutdown what it was — a failure of Congress to do its most basic job. I don’t care which party is to blame.

Every member of Congress should be held responsible for doing his or her job. We voted for them to represent us, not delay and posture while the government lurches from one