Letters to the Editor
tballou
Published Letters: 42 Editor's Choice: 1
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DCLaw1 is absolutely correct - Regardless of what one thinks of prostitution
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The fact that two or more people can have videotaped sex and get legally paid for it is so obvious a way around prostitution laws. I have never figured out why more "escort services" don't set themselves up as movie studios. Sell sex that is videotaped and sold to an audience of one (the john) and voila! no crime.
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Why can't she call him a liar?
[Read the article: The principled, honest House Republicans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After everything this country has been through because of the clearly documented lies from Bush and his entire administration, why cannot Nancy Pelosi say "Yes, George W. Bush is a liar. He knows it, I know it, we all know he is lying now, he was lying yesterday, and I expect him to lie again tomorrow."? What is so hard about that?
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DNI Mike Mcconnel is a big liar too
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mcconnel spoke at Furman University in Greenville SC yesterday and tried to pass on the same BS. Here's the link:
http://www.thestate.com/nation/story/359513.html
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Mike Mcconnel on the Constitution (from his speech at Furman University on Friday)
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Vietnam veteran, who said he’s tried to retire three times, waved a copy of the Constitution and implored students to read it by day’s end.
“This is a precious document. It is why we have survived. It is why we will survive. And it is why we will prevail in the future,” he said. “What’s the magic? The magic is how it starts: We the people. For the first time in history, government was about the people, not a leader.”"
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The Bottom Line
[Read the article: John Yoo's war crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As long as Congress puts impeachment "off the table", this kind of lawlessness will prevail. So long as Congress refuses to wield their only true power over the President, he or she can fill the DOJ with corrupt cronies and avoid any accountability practically forever.
Congress' refusal to impeach Bush has absolutely set the stage for all future Presidents to flout the law, knowing that there is now ample precedent.
Congress' incorrect interpetation of the general popular disgust with the Republican's impeachment of Clinton combined with an understandable desire to rally around the flag after 9/11 lead to their complete inaction, especially after the 2006 elections.
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Enough of the "winning" BS!
[Read the article: Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Winning" in Iraq is simply not one of the alternatives at this point. A military occupation cannot be "won", unless you define it as extending the occupation for one more day.
We "won" the invasion of Iraq years ago when we defeated Saddam's army, but once the occupation began, "winning" became a meaningless meme that our political leaders and their media enablers keep coming back to as a way of confusing and misleading America.
The other great irony here is that the only way a free and democratic society can emerge in Iraq (which I assume is their definition of "winning") is for us to leave immediately. It just boggles my mind how myopic and narrow-minded the war supporters are in this regard. All you have to do is put yourself in their situation - what would Americans do if the tables were turned? It would make the Iraqi insurgents and terrorists look like a bunch of rank amateurs.
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Public opinion is split if all you care about is politics
[Read the article: Public opinion on Iraq ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn - the problem here is that the vast majority of Republicans want us to stay as long as it takes (whatever that means), and very slightly less than half of Congress only cares what their Republican base thinks, plus all the ultraconservative "Democrats". This as you know is simply an extension of the entire Bush legacy of politicization of governance in this country.
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I still smell a rat!
[Read the article: Have Republicans given up on FISA and telecom amnesty?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would bet good money that they are all planning on a bunch of pardons come January 2009. Is it within the President's powers to grant pardons for crimes for which they have not been convicted?
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Disappointed but not surprised
[Read the article: The harmony between the Right and the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I watched this debate on and off and at first I could not put my finger on why I kept drifting away. In retrospect I would say that I have become a victim the alignment the Right and the media that Greenwald has described. This just shows how insidious this has become. It is no longer suprising or noteworthy that a political debate or any conversation about politics on TV is dominated by the pettiness on display last night - in fact, it has almost become internalized to the point where it is hard to detect.
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Sad to say but this is not new and not going away
[Read the article: Media's refusal to address the NYT's "military analyst" story continues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"How can "news" organizations refuse to address -- just completely ignore -- accusations which fundamentally indict their behavior as "journalists"?"
"Thus, one of the most significant political stories of this generation -- what Moyers described as "our press largely surrender[ing] its independence and skepticism to join with our Government in marching to war" -- has simply been rendered invisible by our largest media outlets. That scandal just does not exist, particularly on television."
Glenn - in a perfect world this would not happen and when it did there would be outrage all around, but I really think the day has long since passed when the major TV networks were independent journalists. They have all become multinational corporations with inherent conflicts of interest that they completely ignore. And this is not the first time in our nation's history when this has been the case.
I also think that this is a big reason the internet and independent bloggers such as yourself have been in the ascendency these past few years. The MSM will continue to decline in importance (but not go away) as a source of real information.