Letters to the Editor
sunny miller
Published Letters: 107 Editor's Choice: 3
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Thank you, Glenn
[Read the article: Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From the bottom of my heart, I appreciate you putting the blame where it belongs. Just as you said here in the comments, what was stopping Dems, while in the minority, from behaving like Reps are now by obstructing and filibustering any legislation they didn't like? Now, when they have the power to actually put foward bills that constrict the pResidents dictatorial powers, they actually vote to expand it!!! It is clear now they do not want to stop Bush from seizing more and more power. To think the Senate has agreed to a warrantless spying program overseen by AGAG, the very man who sat before them and lied like a dog! How humiliatingly whorish is that?
As someone said above, I have been railing against the Dems for some time and advocating for third party alternatives, only to be met with howls of protest to the effect that at least Dems are are better than Reps. Really? You still think that way? At this point in our disintegration, being a little less bad than the GOP is far short of enough.
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What he said
[Read the article: Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While I agree with Glenn that, as individuals, most progressive bloggers are deeply committed to the Constitution, their willingness to sell their political soul to the Democratic Party, right or wrong, has helped create space for the destruction of our Constitutional system of government.
The progressive blogosphere badly needs to grow up and realize that the Democratic Party is only as useful as its ideology, which at this point is nearly as harmful to the republic as that of the GOP. Progressives, online and off, need to be able to build institutions of power outside of the major party duopoly.
-- Ben Alpers
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YOU need to answer a question
[Read the article: Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then he could ask himself how much better off the country would be if those 16 Democrats were replaced by Republicans. After that, he might turn into an interesting thinker instead of a polemical bore.
-- nerdnam
How much better off we are WITH these dems? How would it be different if reps held their seats? THESE dems just made it possible for Alberto fucking Gonzales to spy on you and your family and friends without warrants. An entire Senate chamber doing this is understandable, but they just did it with a DEM MAJORITY. What good are they?
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oops
[Read the article: Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]*An entire Senate chamber should read-*An entirely rep chamber
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So, in other words...
[Read the article: Chris Dodd on FISA, habeas corpus and Democratic capitulation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]..the Dems are weak-minded cowards who blow with the wind.
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Glenn, what you are saying is
[Read the article: Attention Democrats: GOP fear-mongering does not work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]these people are just too stupid to get why they were elected in 2006. Unlike you, or any one of us who read and comment on your blog, they are totally imcapable of discerning that the voters rejected the fearmongering and gave them a mandate to stop GWB in his lust for dictatorial power. Do you really believe that?
What about the shenanigans with the rules? Something is fishy there. How did the Senate know for sure the House would pass their Bill in it's identical form, and there would be no need to hammer out any differences? They sure did know it, they adjourned @ midnight Friday. Why did Pelosi require 2/3 majority to pass the Dem version, but a simple majority to pass Bush's latest power grab? Why did she even allow for a vote on this abomination?
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Oh, you poor dear
[Read the article: More on the FISA debacle]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]my personal take is that after the recess the Dems are going to come out swinging hard, ferociously even
-- Lloyd Little
you keep thinking that if it gets you through the day.
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The Boot Is Descending
[Read the article: Attention Democrats: GOP fear-mongering does not work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This weekend something of tremendous consequence happened. The attitude of the Bush Administration will likely be mirrored by that of the Democratic leadership: this is nothing, tend to your own work, just move along. The media will dish up some more Paris Hilton prolefeed (let’s call it by its proper, Orwellian name). But what happened was very important–another massive sledgehammer blow was taken to the foundations of our democratic institutions. And it was a thoroughly bi-partisan effort.
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000742
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Oh? -- The Great Experiment
[Read the article: Israel eyes the '08 Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But truly, the only nation in the Middle East that can be considered social liberal is the only nation with a true democracy,
sigh. I guess it's a sign of the times that a country without a Constitution can be considered a democracy.
the only nation that willingly accepts members of other religious into their borders as citizens, and the only nation that has supported an American nation through thick and thin for 50 years.
Where have you been? Members of a certain religion are severely segregated and treated worse than Southern blacks in past years. Their homes can be taken, demolished or appropriated for Jewish settlers. Their crops are destroyed. They cannot freely travel the roads. They cannot freely travel out of the country without coming "home" to find their houses destroyed, or finding they are unable to even re-enter the country. "Israel currently has 223 Jewish-only settlements and ‘outposts’ built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land."
This is just for starters. Go here to find out more:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
And what, pray tell, has Israel done to support America? Do you have any idea how much money and military hardware we have given Israel since 1948? Nevermind the interest free loans. What have we gotten in return?
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Did anyone else catch this?
[Read the article: The Padilla verdict]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/7/3/225654/0947
Via Discourse.net and the SDFL blog:
In the Jose Padilla trial, jurors showed up today all dressed up. Row one in red. Row two in white. And row three in blue. I’m not kidding.
This reminds me of when when the Scooter Libby dressed in red shirts for Valentine's Day.
The Padilla jury has dressed in coordinating colors before:
One time it was all black. Last Friday all the women wore pink and the men blue.
Analysis, anyone?
How bizarre is this? I've been around juries for over two decades and have never witnessed anything like this. How strange is it that TWO separate juries intimately connected to Bush lawlessness would engage in such groupthink?