Lloyd Bentsen

I would like to apologize to President Bush. I am a Republican who voted for Clinton, thinking he would bring change as a “different” breed of Democrat. Yet instead of bringing in outsiders for the promised new government, Slick Willie is nominating only traditional Dukakis-type liberals like Bentsen, Rep. Leon Panetta, and Democratic National Committee Chairman Ron Brown.

And contrary to his PR, we do not have a “new” Congress--it is still full of the same do-nothing leftists we’ve had for years. So just where is the promised change supposed to come from? How can Clinton honestly push through a moderate platform while surrounded by so many liberal agendas, not the smallest of which is his wife’s? We’ve been fooled, America. I have a bad feeling about the next four years.

CHRISTIAN NELSON, West Los Angeles