Letters to the Editor
had_enough
Published Letters: 817 Editor's Choice: 48
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couple of observations...
[Read the article: "Make sure the rug says 'optimistic person comes to work'"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) whoever suggested that Bush should have put his tongue in a light socket by now had me on the freakin' floor! Thanks for the endorphin rush!
2) For what it's worth, the guy has ALWAYS been like this. There is nothing new here. This country had plenty of warning about what it was getting in GW: a deeply disturbed personality. The evidence has always been right out there.
I suspect every, single member of the GOP in Congress wishes the man would just shut up, except when he's scripted.
3) Where's MSM on this? Has anyone ever considered the possibility that GW has always made MSM, and all its minions, very, very nervous? Because it's so abundantly clear that he is a disturbed, disordered personality. The fact that MSM has consistently ignored these unscripted disasters is extremely suggestive. The thundering silence from MSM on the subject of GW's actual words, and their meaning, when he's unscripted, is like a big sign saying "we're going to ignore this because if we don't, we'll have an instant constitutional crisis"... Cowardly bastards.
Our electoral system was jobbed, twice, to put a clinically disturbed personality in the White House. The proof is abundant. Both the jobbing and the disturbance. Were I running MSM, that'd make me very nervous.
Anyone here ever talked to a major MSM figure on the QT...ever? Do they ever talk about this? That we're being led by someone who probably needs drastic chemical and psychological help?
Bad scene. Very bad scene.
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I know this is hardly original, but....
[Read the article: Supreme Court upholds ban on "partial-birth" abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...maybe it really is time to let the wingnut base have what it wants. Outright invaldation of Roe.
Maybe the reproductive rights organizations should go back to doing what they should have had to do all along: argue this one state-by-state.
As has been opined more than once in recent years, if the SCOTUS had just butted out of the abortion debate, we'd probably have legal abortion in most states, and abortion would not have been turned into such a powerful political weapon...a weapon that has been instrumental in allowing people like Bush and Cheney into the White House.
I *know* this kind of thing might result in a lot of problems for a lot of women...but you could make an argument that allowing abortion to become a political weapon of the Right in this country has made life far worse for all women than nationalizing the debate made life better for them.
I say, along with a number of other noted writers on the subject: let's have the SCOTUS overturn Roe and put the entire business back in the lap of the States. Even better, let's have the Court outlaw abortions for awhile.
How long do you think the GOP could hold out against that? Their entire political strategy for over 30 years has been to use abortion as a weapon to bash Dems and raise money, but no GOP politician has ever had to *defend* that actual outlawing of abortion on the Federal level. I think that alone could well be worth the cost. It might well destroy the GOP completely as a political party. That is something worth fighting for, at this point.
It's time to call these fuckers on their grotesque and cynical hypocrisy. I truly believe that if abortion law had not been nationalized the way it was in 1973, the GOP would not have ruined our country now. The law of Unintended consequences is a hard law.
Short of that national battle, the SCOTUS could simply turn the problem back to the States...and now each local legislator would have to defend the outlawing of abortion. This kind of thing could transform our country...the way it should have 30 years ago, if we liberals had not overreached, and given the Right the perfect weapon with which to assault us for the following 30 years.
I say, bring it on. Let the SCOTUS overturn Roe. And watch the entire GOP start squirming. There would still be legal abortion in this country, for the cost of a car trip or a plane ticket to New York or California. Or other states with legal abortion. No, that's hardly ideal. Not by a long way. But that wouldn't last long, I don't think.
Sometimes, you have to suffer some serious pain for some serious gain. And I know, it's not my pain. I'm an XY chromosome-type, and I understand I don't have the skin in this fight a woman has. But, consider all the alternatives, consider the present and past, and consider the way the nationalization of abortion law has utterly poisoned our political life.
It's time to have a real knock-down, drag-out fight over a woman's right to choose, and to have that fight end in victory for choice, as it inevitably will, once the issue is no longer nationalized..