Letters to the Editor
had_enough
Published Letters: 813 Editor's Choice: 48
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our power structure looks after its own.
[Read the article: The three stooges]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In this we are no different from the soviet union, where government leaders could usually count on a fat, protected retirement, no matter their crimes.
So it'll be with Bush and Cheney, Rove and Gonzalez, Addington and Rice. They will all go to a fat retirement, protected by a power structure that dares not call them to account. That actively protects them, in fact.
It has been every thus in this country, with almost no exceptions. Nothing short of revolution would change it..and, even then, reflexively, the system would snap back to what it was before, just with new players, for a time.
Our system is broken. It's probably been broken periodically since the country was founded. It's broken now. Question is, will we fix it this time?
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games
[Read the article: The cornflakes defense]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Congress should quit playing games, and find them ALL in inherent contempt, and get the sargeant-at-arms to arrest them all and throw them in the slam, starting with Rove.
Congress *can* do this, legally, if I've read the background correctly. Congress just doesn't have the stomach for it.
But that would stop all this shuck-and-jive. Rove in a cell for awhile, along with Miers and Jennings and the rest.
Bush and Cheney will just keep toying away with them as long as congress lets them. The idea is to send the message to the idiot-30-percenters "see, we're complying, we have nothing to hide, and if the President says executive priviledge covers stuff, well, you can trust us.."
Any other citizen who tried equivalent tricks with law-enforcement, or local prosecutors would have their heads handed to them forthwith.
the Dems should quit fucking around and just do it. Nuke 'em right now...metaphorically speaking, of course. The US Attorney firings are the closest congress will probably come to obvious impeachable offenses, since all the lies about the Iraq war are untouchable, apparently.
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jesus...again
[Read the article: Mayor, Inc.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]all you have to do to know how stupid this idea is, is look at our current medical insurance system. If you want to call it a system. It's more like a scam invented to allow insurance companies to get fat on the backs of the rest of us.
You know what? I'm feeling more and more like a communist every day. A real communist. Not the ersatz variety that populated China and North Korea and the Soviet Union. Those guys are all just corporatists camouflaged by the communist label.
Nope. Our *commons* our food, land, water, health-care..all that which *must* be shared, is in terrible peril from corporate interests. Our climate, maybe the most crucial commons of them all, has been sacrificed on the altar of corporate profits.
Isn't it WAY past time for us, as a species, to consider other ways of doing things? You'd think.
Capitalism has given us the biggest, richest fiesta humanity has every known. But, soon, the bill will come due, and then everyone will be pointing at everyone else to pay it. You think corporations will pay? Nope. They'll be working like crazy, as they are now, to keep from being held accountable, and keep from having to pay.
Us peons will pay instead.
In a more primitive time, I might have suggested that it's time for a few heads to roll. Or more than a few.
Instead, my own modest proposal is that capitalism is deadly in large doses, and that some kind of sophisticated hybrid of capitalism and socialism is the only way we have even a hope of surviving...and that does NOT include corporations running things any more than they are now. Rather, it involves them running a whole hell of a lot less.
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vermin
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, from his indie perch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read half of it..then I just couldn't stand it anymore.
The man is vermin. He is scum. People with any respect for themselves wouldn't be caught in the same room with this quisling.
He is *everything* that is wrong with our political culture. He's a lying, spinning, opportunistic hack..in the immortal words of Hunter S. Thompson, he's "a treacherous, gutless old wardheeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current."
Ah, Hunter, we miss ye.
As for Lieberman, just let me echo the sentiments of others here by saying, thanks SO much, Connecticut, for inflicting this quisling on us for ANOTHER FIVE F*^%$#@ YEARS!
I wish we could put the entire GOP on that bottle, is all I can say.
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I think I'm gonna...
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...throw up.
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it's just human nature
[Read the article: Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Dems want power. They think they can take both houses and the presidency in 2008, and nothing will deter them from doing anything they can to accomplish that.
And, of course, all the current Dems want to keep their jobs. At just about any cost, it seems.
I agree with you Glenn, they're a bunch of wimp motherfuckers, but this is politics and in politics it's who has the power at the end of the day. The Dems think they're going to get the power. So, now, they consent to having Bush behind them with their undies down. Later, they'll do the same to the GOP, they hope.
Our two-party system seems, to me, to be irretrievably broken, if it ever worked very well.
Thanks for bothering. I dunno how you maintain that burning indignation. I get so tired of the whole freakin' thing. We are disgusting animals, no two ways about it.