Letters to the Editor
Joel_Grant
Published Letters: 192 Editor's Choice: 14
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Why do the Dems have to compromise on this?
[Read the article: Why is Obama supporting "limited" offshore drilling?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can this wait until January when, presumably, there will be a Dem president and a Dem congress? What then for the Repugs?
Filibuster again? OK, but let them actually filibuster. Set up the cots. Flood the airwaves with commentary on how the Repugs care nothing about real solutions, and everything about raping the landscape on behalf of their oil company masters.
Or something like that.
But Obama flips and flops because McSame is whining that Pelosi and Reid need to call a special session of congress to deal with this urgent issue. An issue so urgent that McSame's solution will barely move the price needle at all, and even then, not until the next president's 2nd term is over.
It is all about short term political tactics. Craft something that can be sold to the slavish, drooling followers and that might stave off a few Rovian attacks.
As if the latter were even possible. Even as we speak, the repugs are sliming the Dems for not giving the oil companies everything they want. The repugs, as usual, are lying their heads off, trying to convince Americans that drilling ANWR drilling is going to help the price at the pump.
Instead of caving in, Obama should be going on the attack, labeling this nonsense for what it is.
Instead, Obama continues to slink and sink.
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Hammer the right wing thug without mercy
[Read the article: Turn around, Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there something wrong with a Democratic nominee just outright telling the truth? McSame should be hammered without mercy. On every front he is weaker than weak.
He is not a maverick. He is a virtual carbon copy of Bush and Cheney. Morph photos of Bush into McSame and back again. Point out that McSame's maverick reputation is based upon old tapes.
He dumped his first wife when, after an auto accident, she became somewhat disfigured. He then courted and won a rich lady, whose inherited wealth have funded his power-lust. And even then he verbally assaults her in public, calling her a "cunt".
How base is that?
Whatever his physical courage 40+ years ago, he is now a moral coward. In order to satisfy his lust for power he claims that those 'agents of intolerance' (right wing theocrats) are now just ducky. Those tax cuts he opposed because they were skewed too heavily to the rich - now he wants to make them permanent.
He says he doesn't like lobbyists, but most of his campaign aides were lobbyists until, one by one, their own corrupt practices forced them to resign.
He is lying about the effect that offshore and ANWR drilling will have upon oil supplies and prices. Obama should bluntly point that out.
The "surge" is a failure. The original success measurement for this approach was whether or not the Iraqis were able to achieve a political agreement across the board. This has not happened and agreement is not on the horizon.
Instead, a truce by the Sadr brigades and the success of ethnic cleansing has caused levels of violence to fall from catastrophic to horrific levels.
McSame's health care proposals are pathetic. On every single domestic issue, McSame has no idea what he is talking about.
Obama should point out that the only thing McSame has going for him is Karl Rove's venom and GW Bush's fund-raising prowess.
Unfortunately, Obama is just another hack centrist Dem and may even succeed in missing what is, historically, a Tiger Woods 6 inch putt.
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At what point do we call in Vince Bugliosi?
[Read the article: New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have any of you read Bugliosi's latest book, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder"?
This is one more - and one more big - brick in the wall of evidence.
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@Joan - you gotta be kidding!
[Read the article: Fighting Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan Walsh emoted:
loved the way he went after John McCain – and George W. Bush. I loved the anger in his voice when he delivered the line: "Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough!"
What a slam!
Obama and the Dems are still a bunch of pitty-pat whupped dogs. And I respect our friends with fur.
The criticism being leveled at the grotesqueries of the last eight years is not unlike someone running against Stalin on the grounds that the trains are now running fifteen minutes late.
Kucinich has tried to speak frankly about these criminal thugs but even he was (supposedly) required to pull a few of his punches in his speech.
We are talking about war criminals, torturers, serial felons, turning the Justice Department into a bloodthirsty arm of the Republican Party.
And Obama puts on his mittens and slaps them on the ankle.
Pfui. We need a new political party, the Dems and their vapid enablers are pathetic.
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As for Shooter...
[Read the article: Massive police raids on suspected protesters in Minneapolis]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If people are doing something illegal and the police come to their house to arrest the people and sieze evidence related to the crime they need to have a search warrant and they need to charge the people they arrest with the crime(s) they are alleged to have committed. And the items listed in the search warrant have to have something to do with the crime.
Hence, if what you said was true (and Glenn rather decisively pointed out what was shooting from what part of your anatomy) the police would have arrested the occupants of the houses with something like 'conspiring to physically disrupt someone's meeting'.
Based upon the accounts we have, what happened instead was similar to what happens in the country that used to be known as Burma, when citizens try to talk about Forbidden Subjects.
Of course, there are always puppy dogs willing to lick the boots that kick down the doors. Good boy, Shooter!
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And what about real disruption?
[Read the article: Federal government involved in raids on protesters ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's go back in time, to the Salon archives, to remember when it was Republicans actually being disruptive. Not sitting around a house talking about engaging in some kind of political protest. Republican thugs flown in from across the country to disrupt the counting of ballots in a presidential election.
http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/miami/
But that's different, right?