Letters to the Editor
Jim White
Published Letters: 1094 Editor's Choice: 15
-
How does your garden grow?
[Read the article: WSJ Op-Ed page decries hatred of the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My answer is, bring consequences to bear. Real consequences. Consequences that hurt. --Mr. Humidity
I think that the absence of any true route to consequences is at the heart of the frustration I feel. The long list of Bush crimes is well known, and the obvious real consequences for Bush, Cheney and their enablers in Congress is impeachment. That route continues to be blocked, and I am reduced to snark and cynicism as my only tools for combating insanity. That is the breeding ground on which, for many of us, hatred has taken root and flourished.
This is to be viewed in the wider context noted in the Molly Ivens column that was mentioned upthread. In the column, she related her thoughts during the height of the recount controversy: Jeez, maybe we should just let them have this one, because Republican wing-nuts are so crazy, their bitterness would poison Gore's whole presidency.
I remember similar thoughts at the time, although mine tended more along the lines of “Jeez, maybe we should just let them have this one because the crazier ones are likely to take to the streets with guns if Gore is declared president.”
Therein lies the difference. The “reality based” community is reduced to snark and cynicism because all real routes to consequences for Bush have been blocked. We fume and sputter, and a few of us investigate routes for war-crimes trials or constitutional conventions. Yet, consider what would be happening today if a President Gore had inflicted even one tenth of the damage to our country that Bush has perpetrated.
Yes, we tend our gardens, but who is knitting?
-
OT--Quick, name that story!
[Read the article: WSJ Op-Ed page decries hatred of the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The snippet below is from an AP story that just ran. My question is, what is the topic of the story? I think that this paragraph is likely to be useful in any number of stories that will run between now and November, 2008.
"They want to get something done before a new administration gets in and so they get the clock ticking on" federal regulatory approval, the official said.
No fair using the Google or looking at the Yahoo news page.
-
@Kitt
[Read the article: WSJ Op-Ed page decries hatred of the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fortunately, it's only a story about a potential merger between United and Delta. But what else is going to be done "before a new administration gets in"? Allowing the re-emergence of monopolies almost sounds like returning to the good old days, doesn't it?
-
--cordelia 525
[Read the article: The Giuliani moderation fallacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's the impetus for adopting the neocon world view?
Because he's an authoritarian and the idea of all that power makes his dress stick out in places it shouldn't.