Letters to the Editor
Tone in DC
Published Letters: 135
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Republican paranoia
[Read the article: Enemies everywhere]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that is reminiscent of a certain gent from "Dr. Strangelove" (polluting our bodily fluids!)
Great post, Glenn. Keep it up.
We horrible liberal/progressives are out to Get the Righties. So are the terrible Undocumented Immigrants (awful furriners!)Yeah, that's the ticket.
For a group of such manly, assault rifle owning macho men, they sure seem easily frightened. Scared by dirty hippies, college professors, union bosses and such.
Watch it, Righties. Hillary will have Valerie Plame catch you by the monkey bars at recess, knock you down and take your lunch money.
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Great posts this afternoon
[Read the article: Enemies everywhere]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Interesting points of view. Except for a couple who seem rather truculent, and sound their same note over and over like a bad Terry Riley composition.
Bebop-
I was born here, not far Capitol Hill. I know DC can be a violent town, no one will deny. During Reagan's reign, I went to school near Boston, and in Richmond. To me, those two cities were worse than Washington.
Sorry for your loss.
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Big bad John
[Read the article: McCain: Greedy people should be punished]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know if McCain is catching Romney disease, where he tells each audience exactly what his staff figures the audience wants to hear (and his prior positions on the issues be damned). I hope not.
In 2000, out of all the GOP candidates, McCain was least reprehensible of the field. His reactions occasionally were and are painfully obvious in their scripted nature; however, sometimes the old man can't help himself and he says something he means. He can lose his temper. I'm hoping he doesn't lose that. It's a quality more pols should have. When the press or other politicians push his buttons, he reacts. He calls BS. Some of the GOP (and Democratic) pols could learn from that. I'm not certain he meant what he said about those rich folks on Wall Street. One can hope, though.
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Thanks for a timely post
[Read the article: A guide to Super Tuesday's riskiest voting machines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chaos is an understatement.
Chicanery, skullduggery, argybargy or perfidy. But not just chaos.
Or just call it what it is: fraud waiting to happen.
There are a lot of voters in these states. Easily enough to affect the results in a significant way.
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Pelosi and Conyers won't stop this
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...maelstrom of horse manure. I only hope SOMEONE will stand up, either in conference or on the House floor, and strip immunity from the final bill.
Wouldn't that make Dubya positively apoplectic.
Glenn, great post. Thanks for all you do.
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Obama's butter (on a roll)
[Read the article: A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, great post. Thanks for all you do to inject the debate with lucid, reality-based analysis.
I am glad that you read Rove, Drudge, O'Reilly, Malkin and the rest of the Spew Machine, so I don't have to.
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McCain needs decaf
[Read the article: McCain: Threatening to bomb sovereign countries is "naive"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah, the politics of name calling. So Republican. So putrid.
Glenn, thanks for this post. I didn't know just how rancid the conventional wisdom was and is on this. The Washington Post's Op-Ed section (excepting E. Robinson, H. Meyerson and D. Froomkin) is a prime example of such rancid posturing.
And I's certain the surviving Beach Boys truly wish McCain would stop attempting to sing "Barbara Ann".
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McHebert's ad would work
[Read the article: GOP politics in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, great post. Keep dissecting the horrible cadaverous zombie known as neo-conservatism.
And the Righties screeched, be afraid. Be very afraid. Hide under your beds from the guys with old rifles and box cutters.
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Contrarians or concern trolls
[Read the article: Obama shows that dismissing slimy right-wing attacks is not difficult]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, thanks for this post. I have seldom been so pleased with a progressive politician's response to the Neo-con hordes.
With regard to some of our fellow commenters... Everyone knows this isn't over. Not even close, the next nine months will be a slog. A slog filled with more half truths, rumors and outright lies than any of us would care to see. I'm very pleased at Obama's response to those putrid talking points. I'm hoping he'll show us more of that.
Last year, the eejit known as Chris Wallace went after Bill Clinton on Fox Noise. Bill, quadruple bypass and all, set the little @$$hole straight. Obama and Bill have that much in common: they know not to back down from tired neo-con rhetoric.
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I can't stomach CNN
[Read the article: John King with Mike McConnell: Rare journalistic honesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I especially cannot take McConnell. After last August, I think he's no better (and no different) than Rove.
I don't watch the network news. It hurts my frontal lobe, and I get a helluva headache. Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Bill Belichick and Hillary's cleavage. When "60 Minutes" finally got the Siegelman story, one many of us wanted to hear, the administration did what they could to bury it.
End moaning and groaning.
Froomkin took a two by four to Dubya, McConnell and Dana Perino in his blog. It's worth reading.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/02/25/BL2008022501469.html
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I'm glad that Glenn is calling out Timmeh
[Read the article: Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...for his ridiculous thinking (or lack thereof) on this.
Interesting that Farrakhan said that Foxman should point out where Farrakhan was mistaken, and Foxman did not care to do so.
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Off topic regarding Tony Fratto...
[Read the article: Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]better known as the steaming pile of excrement (TSPoE).
Fratto disparaged Stiglitz' accounting of the overall cost of the Iraq war, saying "People like Joe Stiglitz lack the courage to consider the cost of doing nothing and the cost of failure. One can’t even begin to put a price tag on the cost to this nation of the attacks of 9/11."
I was too apoplectic when I heard that to do more than stare at my radio in disbelief. That the administration can continue to make inflammatory statements like that, disparaging those who criticize it. When their reaction to the criticism so obviously comes from somewhere other than the reality based community. Or any reality that I'm familiar with.
End rant.
Hagee isn't even the worst example. Robertson has him beat, IMO. Remember when Pat said that the 9/11 attacks were a result of gays, feminists and fornication?
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Amen to that
[Read the article: Shocking new revelation: Unchecked government powers get abused]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree. It seems, more and more, like these guys just do this shit and wait to see what happens. When there are no consequences, they do it some more. Why do things the right way when breaking the law is so easy?
And these are the people who are bitching about Obama's house.
-- mattwa33186
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Cuz having someone sell you a lot or a house at below its asking price is just SOOOO sinister.
Somewhere, D. Addington is laughing.