Letters to the Editor
SusanMc
Published Letters: 455 Editor's Choice: 1
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Right-Wing Priorities
[Read the article: Eliot Cohen called for draft to prevent stupid and female troops]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG: Several of the more decent pro-Bush bloggers have signed on, though, at least as of now, most have not
Jesus' General take a look at what else isn't important in the right-wing blogosphere: the neglect of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital. He's kept a tally:
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2007_02_25_archive.html#1675233980937022594
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Right-Wing Priorities
[Read the article: Fallout from the Coulter speech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG: Several of the more decent pro-Bush bloggers have signed on, though, at least as of now, most have not
Jesus' General took a look at what else isn't important in the right-wing blogosphere: the neglect of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital. He's kept a tally:
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2007_02_25_archive.html#1675233980937022594
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The Patriarchy
[Read the article: The right-wing cult of contrived masculinity]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG: People who feel weak and vulnerable crave strong leaders to protect them and to enable them to feel powerful.
Hey. Tell me about it. After 9/11, California couldn't elect Arnold Schwarzenegger as our Governor fast enough. Can I just say that again? Arnold Schwarzenegger is our Governor. QED
Dan D: I'm frankly shocked anyone could pick that name in ignorance
He doesn't get out much. [Pleeeeease Salon, please add a kill button. I'll even pay extra for it. It would have saved me a lot of time today!]
Vir Modestus: This idea of the hyper-masculine authoritarian approach to politics has been long talked of in the feminist blogs.
This is true. In fact, there's a wonderful somewhat-connected discussion going on right now at I Blame the Patriarchy-- in case anyone is interested and in the mood to read even more blog comments-- as part of The Twisty Book Club review of Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex:
http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/03/05/firestone-theater/
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Item Time
[Read the article: Various matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]clownsense: I love the Various Item Days.
Me, too. Lots of good, meaty reading material for today, Glenn. Thanks!
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Interpolation
[Read the article: Various matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gator: Glenn, I did not know which of the links and references in your posts on the subject constituted, in your mind, factual evidence of agitation for war by Jewish groups.
Your support is laudable, but I don't understand why your inability to connect the dots is somehow Glenn's fault.
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Slow Day
[Read the article: Various matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gator: Since I'm slow, I also don't understand who or what you think I "support."
Glenn. I thought you made a fairly compelling case for that. The other stuff? Not so much.
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Ramifications
[Read the article: Lying to Congress has become a Republican principle, literally]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG: Congress is composed of the representatives of the American people, and when executive branch officials lie to Congress, they are lying to the country.
I wish the average American citizen would recognize that fact. I think sometimes disgust for politicians in general mutes the outrage we should feel when it is quite obvious to everyone that some "misleading" has occured. If people knew about the practical effects of these lies, I think they would be more upset about it, but when the way it's reported makes it sound like it's just more political gamesmanship, they tune it out.
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Polypost
[Read the article: Nixon Foundation deletes Coulter column]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Polly: My only point to raise is that such movements to have Coulter’s articles and columns pulled – when looked at from a distance by those removed from or uncaring of the political world
You can't make decisions on how to act based on the possible opinions of the uninformed.
As for the letter from the Nixon Foundation: there is text and there is subtext, and I got a really strong feeling that the Nixon Presidential Materials Director is a Greenwald fan.
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The Ruling Class
[Read the article: Howard Kurtz and the royal Kagans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG: Apparently, the Kagan family has locked up a "surge" monopoly: Fred designed it, they sold it to the President, and the whole familiy is now held up by our media outlets
You know, this would be farcically hilarious, if it weren't for the sad fact of their inordinate and completely undeserved influence.
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Doomed
[Read the article: The president receives "lessons" from his neoconservative tutors]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG: They also told the President to ignore the fact that other powerful countries and even empires that tried to dominate the world have all collapsed.
GW's tutors have skipped history's most basic lesson. Perhaps George could be convinced to read the greatest hits of Santayana?
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Jenniebee
[Read the article: The president receives "lessons" from his neoconservative tutors]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somebody, please, give me a good reason for why he is really going to finally go away in January 2009.
He has no choice? I'd be more concerned about electing someone else just like him, or at least someone taught by the same tutors.
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Logistics
[Read the article: The president receives "lessons" from his neoconservative tutors]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yellow Dog: I'm afraid the Usurper does indeed have a choice come January 2009.
Him and what army? I mean, we pay them, he doesn't.
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The Future
[Read the article: The president receives "lessons" from his neoconservative tutors]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yellow Dog: If we survive as a republic until February 2009, it will be by chance - and possibly the grace of a General who launches a coup.
Man. If I believed that, I'd be packing up my family and heading north.
jenniebee: Do you really think the military would forcibly remove Bush if he declared a state of emergency that extended his term of office?
Why would he DO this? To what end? I mean, he's already spent all the money.
I'll admit it's farfetched
I'm in agreement there. I remember the same sorts of "sky is falling" remarks before the 2006 election, and everything went fine.
what has happened since November 2000 that didn't seem like farfetched, paranoid imaginings right up until the time Bush did exactly what no "serious" person believed he would do?
While perhaps no one predicted just how much damage he would do, plenty of people saw many of the abuses coming (Glenn) and called them when they happened.
Frankly, my dear: He is not the one who has created the unitary executive and those who have are not going to be willing to give it all up because of some silly election.
How is he going to pay for such a take-over? This supposes a whole army of folks (mostly government employees) behind him and in cahoots on such a plan, and I say he doesn't have them. Or Superpowers.