Letters to the Editor
Cocktailhag
Published Letters: 483
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Believe everything....and nothing
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jim... Whoever made that thing up had just the kind of sick sense of humor I love. When I was a kid, I had a paper route, and my brother and I pulled out some inserts entitled "Baby Sale." Using the crude technology of the time, we pasted fake typed captions over the real ones... replacing "booties...$3.99" etc., with "This adorable tyke is almost potty trained," etc., raising the prices, of course. We copied them off at the grocery store and inserted them into the next day's papers, targeted at busybody, nagging customers. Sure enough, the next day the Oregonian got furious calls from our favorite customers.
Good times.....
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Aych....
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did you see the part about the chastity pledge? From the nubile 15 year old? That was my favorite. I'd be interested to know how long that's been up, and whether anyone tried to order. Jim was onto something... Doesn't Dick Cheney have a few bum parts?
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Holding out, WT?
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's hear about it. There's bored news junkies afoot, as you can see...
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Pretty soon you're talking real money....
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jim... That's the funniest.... Bland, corporate mail makes the best jokes. And Pedinska, I was referring to internal organs only, regarding Cheney. That's twice in a row, that you've won the "Ewww" award. I think I'll make up a pageant banner, "Miss Ewww," for you to wear next time you have a singing gig. But you have to lay on the piano, with hair over one eye, like Veronica Lake.
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Try some 220 dropouts...
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pedinska.... In this case, you should skip the batteries.... As we saw at Abu Ghraib, Cheney likes it hard-wired. But I'm thinking something with cables hooked up to the nearest dam.
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Both Hands Clapping
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Walter... Glad you're back. I wanted to shower you with praise earlier for your delightful and relentless takedown of the somewhat less than aptly named "Defending our Freedom" troll earlier, but as I was painting my kitchen, was unable to do so. You got him/her/it good, and saved me getting "Lenox Brown" on my keyboard.
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Jebbie's Pony
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Camels make me suspicious. My dearest friend is in the process of unloading her husband, whose father was a CIA agent. I wondered about him when a childhood picture of him showed him posing happily on a camel.
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The Moon
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bebop.... There's no moon tonight; alas. The last few nights I could look out and see the mountain in outline, the moon was so bright and the mountain so snowy and white. Now the sky is the usual, opaque and dreary, and even in the daytime I only know the mountain is there from memory.
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Who Knew?
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pedinska, these Republicians really do traffic in organs, don't they? That's creepy as all get out. From now on, I'll be wondering what parts they have missing, each time I see one.
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Protection Racket
[Read the article: More disruptions to the Cheney/Rockefeller plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wskytngo... You should feel priviledged that our game show host Senator replied at all. My uncharacteristically polite entreaties were ignored. Further, the Oregonian reported that he had stuck with the Republicians right up to the end, so any hope that he was planning to dupe his constituents with his usual pre-election fake moderation on this issue is unfounded.
However, consulting my Weasel/English dictionary, I find that calling immunity "protection," and linking it falsely to any testimony pretty much clarifies his position.
Stuffed shirt weasel in this case is far too kind. Active co-conspirator would be more accurate.
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The Red Queen says...
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been running and running just to stay in one place, and I've enjoyed the trip greatly. I always wait until I've read everything, since greater minds than mine still think like me. I had a great many thoughts to share, but y'all have said most of them so well, and it's awfully late.
Kovie, I've been standing right behind you, gesticulating wildly and saying, "What he said" and "goes double" all evening. A noble and successful battle you've fought, against deluded but persistent opponents. The worst and yet most common kind.
DcLaw, ditto. You show admirable patience, too.
Bebop, I prefer to use the elbow to make that sound, but you hit the nail as usual.
And Pedinska, I'm glad you got back from dinner in time to slap that faux Injun upside the head. I had already thrown five, if not six, drinks at him, even if only the ice cubes and parasol remained.
As for the Clintons, I've condensed my thoughts to these:
In 1992, after Reagan and Bush, and that despicable Republician convention, I rejoiced that Clinton won. It was all downhill from there.
Don't ask, don't tell.
Health care? Elders? Guinier? Never Mind, whatever you say, righties.
NAFTA.
Welfare reform.
Telecommunications Act.
Dick Morris (!)
Defense of Marriage (the irony!) Act.
Monica. (earth to Bill... lots of tarts are cuter, and more discreet)
I'd prefer Edwards, and I'd deal with Hillary, but Obama is NEW!, which unfortunately or otherwise, matters in these United States.
Let's get back to FISA, but thank y'all for a rich and delicious thread.
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Would That it Were...
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kovie, I meant, and fully intended to, chime in, but it took me until after last call to read all of the thread. I guess I am just tired, and disgusted, with Clintonism, which to me means the same amoral obsession with "winning" as Bushism, but sorely lacks the policy payoffs to the base that Bush provides. What good is winning, when you immediately hand the prize over to your opponent?
What I find so annoying, and self-defeating, about this whole line of discussion, is that the actual results of political victory are completely left to one side, while endless debate and acrimony surrounds the tactics to get there. In this case, the cart is not only before the horse, but is in the next county.
The fact is that, without policy and progress as its rewards, what, exactly is the point of winning?
By herself, Hillary might chart a new course, maybe. But dragging out her compromised and compromising husband is not only not working, but a bitter reminder of his squandered tenure.
As a liberal, I would like to turn the page. The Clintons blew their chance, and they had a great one.