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Published Letters: 1420 Editor's Choice: 20
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Typical right-wing ploy.
[Read the article: Taser nation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's perfectly characteristic of radical right-wingers to blame their abysmal shortcomings and criminalities on their victims.
- Remember the claim that 9/11 was somehow Clinton's fault.
- That Democrats - not deficit-spending Republicans - are somehow the ones who are fiscally irresponsible.
- That Democrats forced Bush to invade Iraq. I kid you not.
- That libruls are the purveyors of immorality - not Republicans, the Party of Pedophiles.
- That Democrats are the cowardly ones, when the pubs are mostly chickenhawks.
So on and so forth. They do this a lot. They invent arguments to blame their political enemies for their own perpetrations. Which makes it perfectly natural for right-wingers to blame right-wing authoritarianism on their librul political enemies.
. . . the Bush administration's policies of stifling free speech.
Remember this: Bush hates your freedoms.
Even more than Chris Matthews. Oh, jeez, I'm not going to get tasered for that, am I?
By the way, the US is in danger of going openly totalitarian:
http://carolynbaker.net/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=99999999
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Does this party want to win the White House next year?
[Read the article: Profiles in Democratic cowardice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gracious. How repressive.
The good news is that fewer than half the Democrats are radical right-wingers, whereas the pubs are all radical right-wingers. If the radical right can manage to become more completely non-partisan, they'd have it made, and the rest of us would be doomed, and with little chance of redeeming the country from creeping fascism.
I've decided to waste my vote for president on Joan Walsh, as a pathetic symbolic gesture. And maybe Greenwald for veep. That way I get to vote against Democrats and Republicans.
"If God had meant for us to vote, he would have given us candidates."
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Fleeing the dollar
[Read the article: Is Saudi Arabia afraid of the dollar?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... even a sketchy piece of journalism by a historically unreliable narrator can make speculators all over the world push the sell button.
You know better than that, Andy. A sketchy piece of journalism can easily be dismissed if the economic fundamentals contradict it, which they don't. What can't be dismissed are the wayward economic policies of the Bush administration and the intrinsic weaknesses in finance and economics.
There is a self-fulfilling prophecy aspect to the dollar's downward journey.
High-end national finance and fiscal policy is always a confidence game. Always. What prevents runs on banks - which can happen even in good times - is the confidence people have that their money's going to be there. An upward journey of a currency is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. It works both ways.
It still comes back to fundamentals, and the fundamentals are truly awful.
This one's been going around, and it's a doozy:
U.S. Banks Brace for Storm Surge as Dollar and Credit System Reel
http://counterpunch.org/whitney09182007.html
Consider this: In 2000, when Bush took office, gold was $273 per ounce, oil was $22 per barrel and the euro was worth $.87 per dollar. Currently, gold is over $700 per ounce, oil is over $80 per barrel, and the euro is nearly $1.40 per dollar. If Bernanke cuts rates, we’re likely to see oil at $125 per barrel by next spring.
Inflation is soaring. The government statistics are thoroughly bogus. Gold, oil and the euro don’t lie.
It gets worse the more you look at it:
As the Empire Slips: Greenspan and the Economy of Greed
http://counterpunch.org/roberts09202007.html
I did say weird ugly. Didn't I? Evans-Pritchard is certainly a twit, but I would never steer you wrong.
Hi scorp.
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Anonymous
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even if Feinstein is not "your senator," she is a U.S. senator, and you can also call, write, & express your reaction to this and every other issue out there. Check out her website; the contact info is there.
Feinstein's a neocon. At best you'll just get ignored. At worst you'll get your name on a List with the Bush Gestapo, er, Homeland Security. Although judging from your post you're in the Detailed Dossier stage already.
And then next time around, we must elect someone else...
This much is true. The corporatists will give us a couple of options among their preferences, and then they'll let us "vote". What passes for "democracy" is little more than thinly-disguised corporatism.
Feinstein is a militaristic corporatist, just like most of the people who run the government, like Hilary, who support warmongering militarism and war profiteering because it's, well, profitable. Dead soldiers and massacred Iraqis take nothing off the profit statements, so they'll just keep on doing it until we get to vote for people who aren't on the take.
Feinstein: "Suckers!"
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Anonymous
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you trying to intimidate us from expression?
No, I'm trying to dissuade you from wasting your time contacting Feinstein's office and put your efforts into something that might do some good, like supporting a progressive opponent.
Do you think Glenn's in the "Detailed Dossier" stage as well?
Probably. I think it would be an honor to get gassed in the same chamber with him and Krugman someday.
I don't see it stopping him from expressing his views...
Takes real courage. Deserves credit.
For the record, I am not afraid, and neither are the countless others who raise their voices.
Me neither.
What was your point again?
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ce
[Read the article: Dianne Feinstein, symbol of the worthless Beltway Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Term Limits a Solution?
Would imposing term limits on all Senators and Congresspersons be one way to break the chronic nepotism and inbreeding that defines Washington DC politics? Whenever I hear strories about people like Feinstein, Robert Byrd, and that racist fossil Jesse Helms and how they "serve" for decades without meaningful opposition, it strikes me as something less than Democracy, maybe even the opposite.
Nope.
The problem isn't that they serve so long.
It's who they serve.
They serve corporations.
They do not serve the people of the United States.
Corporations aren't people. You can tell because corporations have legal rights, and people don't.