Letters to the Editor
fleinn
Published Letters: 33
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A problem..
[Read the article: Gonzales' Fan Club of One]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"That is how Bush works."
-Glenn
Hehe. That was very funny.
Don't fail to recognise that the problem here, as always, is how many senators - as is as evident as ever after the hearing - do not see the problem with firing or choosing people in various key positions based on their political leanings. What they regret, together with Gonzales, is how the appearance of it all came off badly, and how that initial mistake was then not "dealt with" well enough. As well as that there were no apparently direct link between lack of support for their party and a less than outstanding service. That is no doubt very regrettable.
Specter, for instance, had no qualms about shovelling the entire spy- program disaster into the paper- bin, after he reached the point where he could have confronted the White House for real, and moved the entire scandal to the feet of Cheney's office and Bush's closesest advisers.
The same has happened quite a number of times before as well. From oversight on spending in Iraq, to torture, FISA and now this - where it is clear as day that the law occasionally becomes less important than party politics and campaign- goals.
So ask yourself this - what would you do as a senator if you knew you had to react, for the sake of appearances, even though you had no fundamental objections to the firings themselves? And are almost certain that there were no unusually overt pressure placed on prosecutors to conduct investigations that would, whether there was something to investigate or not, help the party?
Not to say, of course, that Gonzales is anything but a filthy liar - but it will take a lot more from the "spectators" than simply cheering on the senators. In order to make this into anything else than yet another useless hearing process - that will result in little else except senators congratulating themselves for their cleverness in usage of adjectives, while avoiding the difficult verbs.
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So does a poll like that...
[Read the article: Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]show anything you'd like? Or do they just show exactly what you don't want?
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What's worse...
[Read the article: The complete myth driving our Iraq "debate"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Democrats scurrying to figure out why they must do as Bush says. Or firebrand liberal bloggers scurrying to find out why "the people" didn't really disagree with what was ultimately done on the Capitol?
No, I have it. I know what's worse. It's when liberal bloggers lament the fact that the democrats do not have the ability to lay out a simplistic and all- encompassing narrative, and then push that to the masses in order to produce support for wonderous and unspecific things.
Or, perhaps it could be when liberal bloggers manage to entertain the notion that their readers are not perfectly capable of seeing the connection between lack of will to de- fund the war, while also wishing for troop withdrawal. In that it obviously means one only wants to fund a withdrawal, as opposed to a continued war.
Of course, the reality is that Congress cannot, due to lack of clear budgeting, defund the war for at least the rest of the Bush- administration, even if they wanted to. And that is an issue liberal bloggers may be well advised to spend some time exploring, before spouting off about how this latest circus- act on the Hill constitutes yet another "victory" for the Bush- administration.
"The complete myth".. hah!