Letters to the Editor
cwnidog
Published Letters: 382 Editor's Choice: 48
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So Tired....
[Read the article: On the losing side of the divide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am just so tired as seeing the troops, who are doing their best under extremely difficult circumstances being used as human shields by this Maladministration to protect a failed policy and a war based on out and out lies.
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Pot, Meet Kettle
[Read the article: Rumsfeld: Al-Qaida may be behind media reports on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We do know, of course, that al-Qaida has media committees. We do know that they teach people exactly how to try to manipulate the media. They do this regularly..."
Don't listen to their propoganda, listen to ours. Oh, by the way, anything we disagree with is "their" propoganda.
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Oh Boy - Two!
[Read the article: Feingold gets a second]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee a 100% increase! When will the rest of the Senate grow a spine, get up on their hind legs and censure this SOB? I don't favor impeachment (the idea of "President Cheney" or "President Hastert" just makes me blanch), but Shrub does need to get his wrist slapped, but good.
If I remember right five Democrats thought it was a good idea to impeach Bill Clinton for lying about a blow job. How the hell do they figure that this is less serious?
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Mallard Fillmore - Now There's an Endorsement !!!
[Read the article: GOP senator: One senator, six House members face jail in Abramoff case]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anybody else notice that whenever a cartoonist wants to portray a greedy, self-centered, ignorant character they use a duck? Donald and Daffy come right to mind. Ludwig vonDuck and the nephews are, of course, notable exceptions.
I'm not surprised that Tinsley finds Coburn his kind of candidate.
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Airbus vs Boeing
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They yo-yo. This year it's Boeing ahead by a nose.
I'm still waiting for Consolidated-Vultee to pull ahead
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You know - fiction
[Read the article: Why Colbert matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is just an illustration of how right Colbert was when he spoke about the White House reporters going home to write a novel " ... about an intrepid reporter who boldly challenges the Administration - you know, fiction".
I probably blew the quote, but you get the idea.
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Wrong Service
[Read the article: The president's pick for the CIA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Uh Tim,
Hate to seem nit-picky, but Michael Hayden is Air Force, not Army. The blue suit should have been a give-away.
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Just Another Power Grab
[Read the article: George W. Bush, "man of principle"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if any of the right-wing has realized that a goverment that has claimed the power to define marriage as being solely between one man and one woman is also claiming the power to define it as being solely between six men, four women, and a grapefruit.
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Simple
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What else was there left to say? How is $10,000, $10,000,000, $10,000,000,000, or any amount you care to mention even going to begin to make up for that? It's just paper.
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A Little Accidental Honesty
[Read the article: Cut n run vs. lie n die]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"People who attended a series of high-level meetings this month between White House and Congressional officials say President Bush's aides argued that it could be a politically fatal mistake for Republicans to walk away from the war in an election year."
To paraphrase John Kerry from so long ago:
"How do you ask a someone to be the last man to die for the Republican Party?"
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A Question
[Read the article: The Supreme Court clips Bush's war wings]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Given the propensity of this Administration to write signing statements giving itself the right to ignore Congressional acts that it finds disagreeable, will it feel that it has a similar right to ignore Sumpreme Court decisions where it thinks they got it wrong?
In short, as the Supreme have no way to actually enforce a decision, we need to trust G. W. Bush & Co. to actually allow an outside agency to limit their power. This flies in the face of the concept of the "unitary executive" held by this Administration, which essentially holds that the Executive branch is not bound by either Congress or the Courts. I'll believe it when I see it.
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Give Me a Year and I'll Worry
[Read the article: It's about the candidates, stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The 2008 elections are 28 months away. Nobody knows at this point who the nominees will be, so pollsters drag out the same tired names. Twenty-eight months is more than sufficient time for the field to change beyond recognition. At this point, there's plenty of time for attacks of foot-in-mouth disease to crop up and for unknowns to bob up to the surface.
If we're still floating these same names in July, 2007 without anything having changed, then I'll worry ... alot.
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One of the Indiana Targets is a Popcorn Company - No Foolin'
[Read the article: The terrorist in the cornfield]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The country's only Amish popcorn company is on the list. The owner was both mystified an damused. He thought that it might be "because popcorn explodes".
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Well, I for one am just gobsmacked -
[Read the article: First time for everything]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm shocked, shocked to find that that somebody who is a part of this Administration would lie to a member of the press. Heavens me! What is this world coming to?
Next thing you know, we'll be hearing that they lied about the reasons we went to war in Iraq. Or worse yet, that George W. Bush didn't write his own campaign autobiography for the 2000 election.
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Activist Judges ...
[Read the article: Spying on Americans gets its day in court]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't wait to hear the screams of "activist judges" from the Right. The key being that an activist judge is one who feels that there actually is such a thing as the Fourth Ammendment and that it's still in force. A rare breed, unfortunately.
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The Comment Was Appropriate
[Read the article: Hitler, Stalin and ... Joe Lieberman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Given the following from Uncle Joe:
"It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes." -- Joseph Stalin
I'd say that Dean's comparing Harris with Stalin re: the 2004 election was completely appropriate.
But, I guess he probably should have realized that the average American, including a large number of the chatteratti, wouldn't get it. Understanding requires some sense of history, something that's pretty rare here in the good ol' USA. It's so much easier to be outraged.
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Why Bother ...
[Read the article: Will Bush and Gonzales get away with it?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to try to persuade people like Mr. Cronin that they are wrong on an issue if once they come around and have the guts to say so, we so roundly damn them for not having been with us all along?
Politics is a mixed bag, sometimes one needs to sup with a long spoon. Remembering that is sometimes the only way I can supress my gag reflex long enough to vote for a Democrat when I really agree far more with the Green or Socialist.