Letters to the Editor
Susan Wood
Published Letters: 379 Editor's Choice: 27
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Ironpath, I think you hit the nail right on the head.
[Read the article: Stalking Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The GOP needs a new acronym; I suggest "G.R.O.S.S.," after Calvin and Hobbes's secret club, "Get Rid Of Slimy girlS." Then they need to build a treehouse and invent a secret password.
They'd be wise not to make that password "Hillarycare," however. The success of Michael Moore's new movie at the box office, and the fact that just about everyone in this country has had a run in with our miserable for-profit health insurance system might make that one backfire in a big way.
Oh, one other question: why aren't all those patriotic young Campus Republicans serving in Iraq? Maybe it's more fun to climb up into the tree house and plot how to Get Rid Of Slimy girlS.
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Or because he started a Holy War against the Brooklyn Museum
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because of the exhibit "Sensation," which included Chris Ofili's infamous "Blessed Virgin Mary" that used elephant dung as one of its materials? Giuliani was angry about everything in the exhibit, but when he saw a way to pander to Catholic voters, he decided that Ofili's painting was the worst of the lot. So people who hadn't seen the show and didn't have any idea what Ofili's painting actually looked like lined up outside the Brooklyn Museum to say the rosary and picket the people in line to see the exhibition.
Personally, I had no interest in seeing "Sensation," but I was appalled by Giuliani's threat to close down the Brooklyn Museum, which is a great institution with a world-class collection of ancient Egyptian art. So what if one loan exhibition was in questionable taste? Curators always have to take chances, and occasionally do controversial things, without Big Brother constantly looking over their shoulders. Even though I knew Giuliani's lawsuit against the Brooklyn Museum was going nowhere, I could see that the museum would have to pay huge legal fees to fight it, and most museums don't have that kind of cash just lying around. But it got Rudy the headlines and publicity he wanted.
No, I don't think that the same bishops who tried to excommunicate Kerry will utter a peep about Giuliani.
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Tiberius, if this is George Bush's idea of contemplating complex issues,
[Read the article: Accountability? Libby? Gonzales? Let me tell you about 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then the American people are truly hosed.
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Remember Mickey Mouse in Fantasia as the Sorcerer's Apprentice?
[Read the article: Remember when Iraq was a sovereign nation?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He commands the broom to do his chore of filling the water trough, then goes to sleep and dreams about being a great wizard with mighty powers, only to wake up to a flood that he can't stop because he doesn't know the command to make the broom stop filling the trough. George Bush reminds me of that, frantically racing around trying to reverse the mess that he's made by eliminating Sunni rule in Iraq and in the process handing Iran a huge gift: a Shi'ite led theocracy that will ally itself with them instead of opposing them the way Saddam did. Bush never thought through that consequence of deposing Saddam, even though he was warned about it by anyone with basic knowledge of the region. So now he's frantically running in circles like Mickey Mouse, trying to bail out the floodwater and stop the broom from marching stolidly along on its task. Too bad there's no master wizard to come home and clean up the mess for him, although that's what the next president will have to try to do.
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Don't kid yourselves that his departure means the end of his brand of slime politics.
[Read the article: Remembering Karl Rove]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was what we thought when Lee Atwater died, too, peeing himself in terror at the thought of going to Hell and sniveling for forgiveness. But as the bard said, the evil that men do lives after them, and it will live after Rove as well. Meanwhile, does anyone besides me notice a pattern in the way that the gentlemanly, well bred George H.W. Bush and the back slappin' friendly good ol' boy George W. hire people like that to do their dirty work?
I really hope now that he'll no longer be protected from subpoenas with "executive privilege," but that's probably a vain hope. Dubbya is claiming executive privilege for everyone who ever spoke to him for more than five minutes, and making it retroactive to his college days.
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Contempt of Congress charges will just drag on until Jan. 09.
[Read the article: Who needs benchmarks when you can just miss deadlines?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why don't they just cut through the b.s. and vote to impeach?
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When has context ever been known to stop a Republican smear?
[Read the article: The Hillary attack that wasn't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When a speaker praised Hillary Clinton for "redefining the role of the first lady" some years ago, Republicans leaped on it as an implied insult to Laura Bush. Since Laura Bush wasn't yet even First Lady, since her husband had not yet been inaugurated, it's hard to imagine how the speaker could have been contrasting her "performance" of a role she hadn't yet assumed with anyone else's, but why should that stop them? There are people who still insist that Al Gore said he "invented the Internet" and "discovered Love Canal," even when you show them the correct, full text of both alleged remarks. Their minds are made up, don't bother them with the facts.