The willingness of some North Shore Long Island residents, including at least one of your readers, to bask in the supposed reflected glow of Manhasset resident and Port Washington native Anthony Scaramucci on his appointment as White House Communications Director boggles the mind.
In truth, Scaramucci is but another embarrassment for our nation, which already has more than enough reasons to be embarrassed by the truth-challenged occupant of the Oval Office and the sycophants surrounding him in the West Wing and elsewhere in the executive branch.
As for Scaramucci, his vulgar tirade in a conversation with a New Yorker writer was conduct unbecoming anyone purporting to represent our government.
The only thing exceptional about Scaramucci is the repugnant language that he used, language that I never thought I would read in a major newspaper.
But what else should we expect from someone who appears so enthralled with the tweeter-in-chief and so bent on mimicking his sponsor’s total lack of dignity and respect that his colleagues reportedly refer to Scaramucci in private as “Mini-Me.”
This coarsening of our political discourse is unacceptable.
What happened to that shining city on a hill?
One can only cringe at what is taking place in our nation’s capital, where a Republican Party bent on repealing the Affordable Care Act cannot come together and agree on how many millions of people — 15 million, 22 million or 23 million — it is willing to deprive of health insurance.
All this while professing to care about the welfare of their constituents.
Who would believe that in the most advanced country in the world 2300 men and women without insurance would need to go to a county fairground in Wise, Va., in order to get free medical attention at an outdoor health clinic organized by an aid group that usually works in undeveloped places like Uganda, Haiti and the Amazon.
Are we witnessing American exceptionalism or the utter humiliation of our nation’s neediest?
You decide.
Jay N. Feldman
Port Washington
