Letters to the Editor
Nita Martin
Published Letters: 271 Editor's Choice: 62
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It's the principle not the votes
[Read the article: Ready or not, here she comes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The fact that there would not be sufficient votes to toss Bush out of office is not a valid reason not to try. For endless months I had to be subjected to salacious and actively vicious revelations about Bill Clinton's indiscretion with an intern who showed the President her thong panties to get his attention. The rest is sad, pathetic history. And he was crucified (not altogether an accidental choice of words, since Clinton was a god of statesmanship in my book) for lying about his sex life. In answer to questions no one should have been allowed to ask, and which had no bearing on his job performance, or our future as a nation. But once the drop of blood hit the water, the sharks started tearing away. (mixed metaphors, I know, but there are so many....)
Now we have a President who has fraudulently taken us to war and stubbornly refused to acknowledge his folly while the soldiers and marines he "commands" continue to die in a downward spiral of incompetent war mongering.
In his illegal and deliberately clandestine end-run around the constitution, the law, and the civil rights of citizens, he has spied on Americans, insisting on the right to seize and torture them with impunity and without oversight.
He has thumbed his nose at Congress, and attached his own interpretation of, and exemption from, the laws of this nation in his "signing statements", signaling his belief that laws are to be enforced, like everything else, only at his "pleasure", and are subject to his sole interpretation.
He has politicized the Department of Justice, creating an in-house "enforcer" of the GOP political agenda, and a permanent election procurement machine in the very office established to prevent this from happening.
He has stacked key offices responsible for the trusteeship of the people's resources and rights with political operatives, who have ignored science, logic, ethics and their real constituency (the people) to provide devastating opportunities for the corporate "friends" of the President, leaving us environmentally, culturally and socially bankrupt wherever possible.
And amazingly, that's hardly the beginning of the list.
Impeach? Are you kidding.....? Even without the hope that it will stick, someone needs to slap the remaining people in the country who still don't get it with the facts. Yes, impeach. Bush and Cheney. And now. It's hard to imagine more damage...but they keep coming up with it, don't they?
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Smart and hopefully at least semi-persuasive
[Read the article: Who are you, Anonymous?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan....I like to think I am both of those things that you attribute to some anonymous posters. However, I would never dream of posting anonymously. I don't even post with a "handle"....I think my opinions should be honest, forthright, appropriate and interesting enough to warrant the signing of my own name.
Simply put, if there is some reason you don't want to sign your name to your own words, perhaps they should be left to mature in the recesses of your own mind.
I'm sure some day, something I have written under my own name will get me into some kind of hot water, or take away one of my options, like a job at Halliburton, for instance. Thank you, Google.
For the present, however, I'll chance it and keep my integrity. As to your focus on this issue, it has made me more cognizant of trying to be on-point and worth reading. Like many of Salon's readers, I think the letters are some of the "smartest" commentary on the site.
And I think the anonymous option should go away. Being able to consistently identify a poster, with or without an actual real name, makes sense. There is no "good" rationale for posting simply as "anonymous".