Letters to the Editor
Nequals1
Published Letters: 331 Editor's Choice: 7
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It's only a matter of time
[Read the article: FEMA dragged its feet on toxicity in trailers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for each and every government agency's systematic ineptitude and incompetence in the meanest and vilest way that harms the people it is charged to serve is exposed.
Bush has very intentionally and systematically populated agencies with partisan hacks who speak oaths of loyalty to Bush, and who carry out his charge to do the will of Bush. There is no question that federal government agencies, processes and services no longer serve the public, but solely serve Bush and his cronys.
Impeachment is the sole means by which to stop this, by which to obtain the information needed to determine who has been harmed, to what degree and in what ways, and finally, to excise these Bush loyalists and traitors from throughout government at every level.
The burden of bringing impeachment lies with Nancy Pelosi. A heavy burden, but an obligation by her oath to support and to defend the Constitution. The people demand no less.
Time is of the essence. People are dying needlessly here and around the globe for Bush's hubris and Constitutional egregiousness.
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Who is this "we" to whom Glenn refers?
[Read the article: Bush's 2001 condemnation of Russia's human rights abuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who is "we" anymore? It's not "we, the people". No - the people don't approve of any of what is cited as human rights violations.
Bush speaks of "the American people" as if THEY are different than WE.
There is such a fracture between the executive branch and We the People now, that to use "we" as an indicator of the citizenry and the Executive branch is spurious.
The more accurate nomenclature is "the Bush administration" as a distinct, separate and adverserial entity from "We, the People."
I don't live in the "Homeland" where Bush resides, and I hold the Constitution as the document which guides and proscribes my rights and responsibilities as a citizen, which Bush does not.
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Military healthcare
[Read the article: Bush was against a pay raise for the troops before he was for it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I blog quite a bit about the problems and challenges facing military healthcare. The Acting Army Surgeon General is a nurse anesthetist. Major General Gale Pollock holds several graduate degrees, has been very forward thinking about finally getting mental health and care for traumatic brain injury front and center, is actively trying to recruit physicians and nurses while facing a 10% shortage - and with nurse officers leaving the Army Medical Corps at faster rates than all other officers, and is very straight forward in testifying that patient waits and delays are at unacceptable levels. By many accounts, she is a dynamic and highly respected leader who is very action oriented and very supportive of those she is charged to provide care for.
So don't think that the military overall isn't acutely aware of just who is behind their supply shortages, their intolerable lengths of deployments and their horrendous readiness status. The military healthcare system cuts across all of the branches, and the huge, now permanent hospital base in Balad is set to go full tilt for ten years. It is jointly staffed with Army and Air Force personnel.
As Bush complains about supporting the troops, the entire military knows just how Bush defines that:
By Rumsfeldian willful ignorance and deafness to their needs. By going with the Army that they have left, rather than the one they SHOULD have had, and knowing that it's BUSH who held back their puny pay increases, and who could care less about their well-being.
By having a mission that is compatible with the Constitution and which is a legitimate use of war powers, instead of invading a country pre-emptively based on intentional lies and distortions.
The military knows.
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Laying the Table for Impeachment
[Read the article: Feingold brings it on]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In days of yore, the media would be laying the table for Congressional options by presenting the arguments for censure and impeachment and by explaining how those processes work. No more.
The bloggers who write to inform and to persuade are carrying that burden upon their shoulders. Were that the majority of Americans reading these blogs!
However, the blogosphere does bleed into the MSM more and more, and its influence is growing. The best that can be done is to continue to write that which explains, declaims and persuades and to share, share and share again with as many fellow citizens as possible by all available legal means.
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Add me to the Digby fan club
[Read the article: Goodbye to all this]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two weeks flew by - I am so sorry that Salon is letting you get away back to Hullabaloo-ing without enticing you to stay here! I enjoyed everything you wrote both at this - your vacation share - and at your home blog.
As always, thank you for writing what needs to be writ large.
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Civil Discourse
[Read the article: Rudy calls half the voters "losers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Plain old civil discourse is the remedy for these ills. The hardest part being on the receiving end of vitriolic ad hominem attacks is not responding in kind - then the terrorists win *g*.
Perhaps the psychologists and behaviorists among us can advise what the optimal response is to discourage this behavior regardless of the particular source.
And seriously, Digby - the Below the Beltway gang ain't gonna evah stand up for Democrats until the Dems as a party project self-assuredness of message and of follow through action.
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Pot Calling Kettle...Mr. Kettle!
[Read the article: Disaster belief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sayeth one who is a writer, and who polishes perhaps not his website, but his show's dialog.
And that man brooding about his insignificant job going elsewhere? There's are millions of us out here permanently unemployable - we're the "overs" - over qualified, over achievers, over ethical, over-aged, over the minimum earners for positions, over and out.
There are many, many who are already in a freefall - we don't have to imagine any disaster at all.