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On Sept. 30, U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta voted to fund Planned Parenthood. On Dec. 11, 2014, and on other occasions, he voted to fund &#8220;Obamacare.&#8221;Lou is now a professional politician.How&#8217;s &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; working out for you? Lou says he wants to repeal it, but that&#8217;s only for your vote. It&#8217;s not what you say, it&#8217;s how you vote.The late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said: &#8220;In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.&#8221; Maybe we need a congresswoman instead of a congressman?Was Lou rewarded for his votes with a transportation subcommittee post by House Speaker John Boehner? Boehner has since resigned, in part, because of conservative pressure by House members for his votes to fund Obama&#8217;s programs.It&#8217;s good Boehner resigned because he probably would not get re-elected as speaker. Maybe it&#8217;s also time for Lou to resign.RedState.com columnist Erick Erickson says, &#8220;People hate politics so much because they see so many good people get into politics and (give) up on what&#8217;s right in favor of what is political.&#8221; Like Lou.Americans overwhelmingly voted to give Republicans control of the House and Senate to repeal &#8220;Obamacare,&#8221; stop illegal immigration and control exorbitant government spending. Except Lou didn&#8217;t hear us. Republicans want Planned Parenthood defunded. But not Lou.Republicans, who control the House and the Senate, can repeal &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; through the budget reconciliation process, which does not require 60 Senate votes. They claim they will take this action now to repeal &#8220;parts&#8221; of &#8220;Obamacare.&#8221; We&#8217;ll see. Or they can vote no on continuing resolution (&#8220;CR&#8221;) budget bills. House Republicans like Lou usually vote &#8220;yea&#8221; on CR bills with the Democrats to maintain the status quo. They don&#8217;t hear us.However, members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative House Republicans, plus several conservative senators, do not vote to fund Planned Parenthood and &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; via CR bills. Lou is emblematic of what&#8217;s wrong in politics and he governs from one of the most gerrymandered districts in Pennsylvania.Lou&#8217;s opposition must come from a conservative who will not vote to perpetuate &#8220;Obamacare,&#8221; Planned Parenthood, illegal amnesty and a bankrupt federal budget. If, as was once said, &#8220;Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them,&#8221; then Congressman Lou has become as masterful a politician as his predecessor, Paul Kanjorski. Too bad. For us.Bill SkubaDrums

Letter to the Editor: Congressman Lou Barletta seen as straying from conservative Republican ideals