Letters to the Editor
Derbig Mooser
Published Letters: 1536
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Will the public be "mad" at the Dems for Impeaching?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have got to understand that by now, Americans, many of them, have no way to understand or explicate their politics, except through the wing-nut narratives and myths of the MSM. It's to the point that what we now call an MSM "liberal" is just a click or two to the left of the old John Birch Society.
And the Repubs are experts at explicating political events using these narratives and myths to provide a brew which is both intoxicating and satisfying. Even without the War on Iraq or the DOJ scandal all the ingiedients for Kool Aid are at hand.
And impeachment is an ingredient ready-made to ferment into the ugliest kind of conspiracy-of-elites and stab-in-the-back discourse.
And nobody likes the person who shows you how stupid you were, and even that you're too stupid to clean up after yourself.
It's just human nature.
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Please bear in mind,
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]lest you crush my blithe spirit (which is not hard to do) with your criticisms let me make, as poor Milhouse struggled to do, one thing perfectly clear.
I do not question whether or not these people ( and many, many of them besides just Bush, Cheney and Gonzales) are elegible for impeachment, nor do I question their overwhelming fitness for a decades-long stay in one of our premier dungeons.
I only question the political utility of impeachment under the present circumstances.
And as far as what will ameliorate or reverse the damage they have wrought upon our nation, armed forces, and political system: beats me, man.
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I yield to no man
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]in my dislike for Bush and his policies.
I simply question whether, among the alternatives available, whether impeachment will yield any political benefits or dividends.
I am acutely aware that a time may be rapidly aproaching when any neat political calculations of benefits are superflous, and the necessity of removing Bush, Cheney and others from office will overide anything else.
Just don't expect any fratitude from the American public, and expect the MSM to do everything in its power to see that there is as little as possible.
Am I making myself sufficiently clear, fellows? I've already been accused of "using a technique which Glenn Greenwald doesn't like" and my relations with the aforementioned progenitor of this blog being very distant, I can only assume the commentor is right.
Although why I am accused of thinking the majority of the American public agrees with me is very mystifying. specially since I am saying they don't think much.
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We've been at that..
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]...point since November 2002 (at the latest). It's raining, dude, it's raining!!
You may very well be right. You won't get any disagreement from me. In fact, I would have started a while ago:
WASHINGTON, May 16 — Scientists working with the Defense Department have found evidence that a low-level exposure to sarin nerve gas — the kind experienced by more than 100,000 American troops in the Persian Gulf war of 1991 — could have caused lasting brain deficits in former service members.
Thinking Gulf War I was a huge win for us has a lot to do with the mess we find ourselves in presently.
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Whoops, ther should be link to:
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or click my name.
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Maybe I should Change
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]my thinking.
If the Dems. (Even if it's bi-partisan) impeach, and the effort is crowned by a recognition and appreciation of the life-saving favor they are doing the nation by the electorate, I'll be the most happy feller in these contiguous United States.
I may have to masticate my chapeau, sans condiments, but I'll be happy, doing it!
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Gosh, I wish
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Prarie Home Companion was more like Bud's Lounge!
On the other hand, Mr keillor seems to have very little hope for the denizens of Bud's Lounge, and given he is well.... wait a minute!
Is Garrison Keillor turning into a prissy little tenure termite from some Midwestern English Lit. faculty?
Quick, somebody check if he has six legs.
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Wow!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It never occurs to Mr. Keollor that the outburst he hears in the back booth at Bud's Lounge has anything to do with why our country has the leadership, the war, and the radio (apart, of course, from "Prarie Home Companion) that it does?
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I will admit...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]freely, the posters here are right in their contention that I do not have a lot of regard for the electoral choices made by Americans for many years. Nor would they be wrong if they contended that I believe it is unlikely their choices will get any better.
I've seen a b-actor become a President, a deserter become a war hero, a war hero become a coward, and a corpse become America's sweetheart. I've seen the wars we start.
A certain lessening of my regard for their cognitive faculties is, I guess, inevitable. If it were up to me, I would recomend a good phrenologist followed by a thourough trepanning.
The faith of the posters here in the eventual ability of the political process to right itself is heartening.
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And it is very possible
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]that if you guys don't tell Mr. Greenwald of my not unwarranted cynicism, he might not notice, and permit me to go on posting comments.
So have a heart, guys (and Gals)
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Thanks to all
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]who responded to my comments.
And if any of you could intercede with Glenn on my behalf, I would appreciate it.
And get a load of, oh wait, no links, so click my name.
Our political process is so degraded, and our media so degenerated, that impeachment of both the Pres. and Vice Pres. may not staunch the rot.
Not that it isn't well-deserved.