Letters to the Editor
MICKI
Published Letters: 569 Editor's Choice: 24
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Hey, hubcap halo....
[Read the article: Why not a phony press secretary, too?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you've got it1 YOU could be a WH press secretary! You've broken the code on the standard-issue answers:
The 20 standard answers on a Magic 8-Ball are:
* As I see it, yes
* Ask again later
* Better not tell you now
* Cannot predict now
* Concentrate and ask again
* Don't count on it
* It is certain
* It is decidedly so
* Most likely
* My reply is no
* My sources say no
* Outlook good
* Outlook not so good
* Reply hazy, try again
* Signs point to yes
* Very doubtful
* Without a doubt
* Yes
* Yes - definitely
* You may rely on it
Ten of the possible answers are variations of "yes", five are ambiguous and five are variations of "no".
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Was Tony misquoted on this one at the Mag Confab?
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On the Bush Administration's decision-making process: "You don't see it but there's a process where everything gets discussed, and there are some raging arguments.... It's not the case that something is always handed in a neat little bundle to the leader of the free world. He's gotta make some choices...When people look back at this White House, they're gonna find its one that had a lot of intellectual vigor."
I do believe that this was a misquote -- I think he said, "intellectual rigor."
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Does anyone know the answer to this? Are these two Philbins related?
[Read the article: The cream always rises]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I noticed that Patrick Philbin is on the FISA witness list for the Judiciary Committee upcoming on Wednesday.
This Patrick Philbin was a law clerk for Judge Laurence Silberman and for Justice Clarence Thomas. This Philbin also served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel.
Now the "other" J. "Pat" Philbin enters the picture with his "promotion."
According to John Dean:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060505.html
Just curious....are they related? Can't find anything on their genealogy bona fides....
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That "planning for the future" thing is just not Rudy's bag!
[Read the article: Do as I say, not as I do]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Looking ahead is not one of Rudy's strong suits either.
He's lucky that Senator Clinton hasn't been tempted to respond (yet) to his bloviating anti-Hillary rhetoric --otherwise she might remind voters that it was Mayor 9/11 who sited a crisis command center at a proven terror target.
It was Guiliani who decided that NYC's crisis control center would be located on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, a site that had been attacked on February 26, 1993. The center opened in 1999. Police and fire officials said he was nuts to do that -- but he did it any way.
Wearing sequins and fishnet stockings is one thing, but lack of planning for the future is quite another!
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She'll do something good for the Earth and the environment...
[Read the article: Report: Obama says no to Clinton-Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She'll pick Al Gore -- then all of the old Clinton/Gore signs that haven't been dumped in the landfill will be recycled, reused, repurposed! :-)
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Actually, I agree...
[Read the article: Report: Obama says no to Clinton-Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...on the Wes Clark possibility.
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Another possibility is...
[Read the article: Report: Obama says no to Clinton-Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA)
I have a hunch that he's on her VP list.
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@djohan
[Read the article: No promotion for FEMA faker]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]College trained journalist?
Hmmmm.
Liberty University? Bob Jones University? Mrs. Grace Ferguson's Storm Door and Diploma Mill University?
Just asking a few questions...
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No, the murderer wasn't AIDED by Craigslist for cripes sakes!
[Read the article: Was a nanny's murderer aided by Craigslist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Craigslist was not necessary for this murderer to achieve an end -- murder.
The murderer would have used another means to "achieve" his goal if there had been no Craigslist.
That sensational headline is not useful, except to get readers sucked in to the story to read the safety reminders.
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There was a time when disregard for the law resulted in Articles of Impeachment
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton and the Mukasey bandwagon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]FROST: The wave of dissent, occasionally violent, which followed in the wake of the Cambodian incursion, prompted President Nixon to demand better intelligence about the people who were opposing him. To this end, the Deputy White House Counsel, Tom Huston, arranged a series of meetings with representatives of the CIA, the FBI, and other police and intelligence agencies.
These meetings produced a plan, the Huston Plan, which advocated the systematic use of wiretappings, burglaries, or so-called black bag jobs, mail openings and infiltration against antiwar groups and others. Some of these activities, as Huston emphasized to Nixon, were clearly illegal. Nevertheless, the president approved the plan. Five days later, after opposition from J. Edgar Hoover, the plan was withdrawn, but the president's approval was later to be listed in the Articles of Impeachment as an alleged abuse of presidential power.
FROST: So what in a sense, you're saying is that there are certain situations, and the Huston Plan or that part of it was one of them, where the president can decide that it's in the best interests of the nation or something, and do something illegal.
NIXON: Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.
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If Hillary Clinton does not take a stand AGAINST Mukasey, she will be forfeiting all semblance of moral authority and clearly demonstrating that she has compromised principles.
Because Mukasey has not been willing to state, without equivocation, that torture (specifically water-boarding) is illegal and against our laws, he does not deserve even the courtesy of a vote.
If Mukasey is confirmed, his testimony indicates that he will aid and abet George W. Bush in his abuse of presidential powers.
What part of that does Hillary Clinton not understand? She did work on drawing up the Articles of Impeachment against Richard Nixon, afterall!
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@-- sorenreport
[Read the article: The politics of hope]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Spot on!
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Bush uses executive orders because he doesn't know how to work with others....
[Read the article: The relevant president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only reason then-Governor George W. Bush "worked well" with Democrats in the Texas Lege was because of B-O-B B-U-L-L-O-C-K!
Bob Bullock, the Dem lieutenant governor, had more power than Bush. Under the Texas constitution, the lite guv presides over the State Senate, makes all committee appointments, sits on all important state boards and controls the flow of legislation, making him in reality more powerful than the governor.
Not only that, Bullock and Bush are cut from the same mould -- Jurassic-behaving white males who have mastered intimidation, bluff, bravado, and bullshit.
Too bad for the United States of America, that GWB got his training for the Big House under the tutelage of Bob Bullock. Bush came to Washington, DC thinking he got along with everyone -- all because he didn't realize that Bob Bullock was telling HIM what to do!