Letters to the Editor
robert lewis
Published Letters: 289 Editor's Choice: 5
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Can Alberto spell M-I-N-C-E-M-E-A-T
[Read the article: Gonzales in training]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which is what any moderately competent cross-examiner will make of his tortured, halting and lame attempts to justify not just the firing - but the lying about the firing - of US Attorneys.
Story of the day: Part of the reason given for the termination of David Iglesias - who I just learned was the model for the Tom Cruise character in A Few Good Men - was his absence from his office.
Apparently, Iglesias is still a reserve military officer - his absences were based on required military service - and to fire him based on honoring of his miltary commitments is a violation of USERRA (The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act).
These idiots shoot themselve in the foot at every opportunity!
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Although Coulter's raging anorexia/bulemia makes her appear in silhouette as if she has suffered some Darfurian trauma
[Read the article: Coulter: "Who's running this holocaust in Darfur, FEMA?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in reality, the worst thing that has ever happened to the ever-complaining Ms. Coulter (besides the curse of an oh-so-imperfect-brain) appears to be the perpetual bad hair day she has been suffering from since the 80's.
Does she know you can do away with split ends with scissors?
On the other hand, some people say Coulter is the result of a runaway recombinant DNA experiment in which mantid genetic material from the praying mantis was recombined with human DNA.
As a result, Ms. Coulter has been known to seriously injure unwary lovers with her flailing and razor-sharp knees and elbows, and in undocumented instances to actually gnaw away the skulls of unwary suitors in the throes of her passion.
The prudent course of action is to avoid Coulter at all costs when she is inebriated or in estrus.
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Oh, please, please, please, please let me see Dick Cheney's name at the top of the ticket
[Read the article: The GOP's secret weapon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in '08. After this week's creepy photo of the glowering Cheney observing his sock puppet George Bush making a rare press appearance in the Rose Garden, my mind has been filled with questions about Cheney's lurking presence:
Did George break up with him? Is Cheney now stalking the President? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Monica Goodling is about to get a lesson
[Read the article: Report: Gonzales aide resigns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that life and the law are somewhat more complicated propositions than she was taught at Messiah College and Regent Law School. Trusting in her personal savior may not be enough to get her through the next few subpoena-filled months inside the Beltway.
Her bogus excuse for invoking the 5th won't hold water; the prospect of transactional or use immunity looms in her immediate future; it's hard to imagine what this ill-prepared ditz will have to say when grilled publicly by Pat Leahy or Chuck Schumer.
Welcome to the Bigs, Monica.
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32 hours & 7 minutes
[Read the article: My backroad memorial]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is the coast-to-coast USA driving record, set in 1983 in a modified Ferrari.
Driving fast doesn't kill people; driving dumb does.
A lovely reminiscence of your brother; enjoy your late night road adventures and memories, I have a few I savor myself:
Terminal Tower to Pop's Truck Stop: 38 miles in 19 minutes.
East Side Highway in a 2-litre Datsun Roadster with a 3/4 race cam/headers/side pipes - the traffic miraculously parting like the Red Sea when they heard the exhaust from the race-prepped SRL 311.
My current car goes 145. If they didn't want me to find that out, they shouldn't have built it to go that fast. If you are going to drive fast, there are some things you have to do:
1. no cell phones
2. no eating sloppy cheeseburgers
3. no looking at the passenger when you're talking
4. no changing the stations
5. hands at 10 and 2
6. pay attention
7. If there's a collision in front of you - steer for the point of impact.
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Hey, Sullivan, why you gettin' all pissy with me?
[Read the article: My backroad memorial]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I never ran into anybody.
You want to get pissed at somebody - try getting pissed at Laura Bush - who WASN"T paying attention, ran a stop sign, t-boned her high school boyfriend and killed him deader 'n a doornail.
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Seems to me it's going to be pretty hard to assert Executive Privilege over communications made outside governmental channels.
[Read the article: The upfront back channel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From what I've heard, the use of RNC e-mail accounts violates some Federal laws regarding archival records and communications, and it'll be interesting seeing the L'il Rascals lawyers from Regent University trying to convince the Supreme Court that e-mails sent thru the RNC should be kept from public scrutiny by the public's representatives in Congress.
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If I were Reid or Pelosi I would trot down to the White House ASAP . . .
[Read the article: A meeting with the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because what could be more fun than telling the jug-eared, squinty-eyed, lizard-lipped imbecile impersonating the president of the united states to go fuck himself face-to-face, up-close-and-personal.
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Here's a Plan for you - you find the chicken-shitiest, fat-assed, bum-tickered old draft dodger and drunk driver (two -2! - count'em 2! - convictions) . . .
[Read the article: Cheney in charge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you can - someone whose sole exposure to enemy fire is the flaming batons he used to douse in a coffee can of water when his skank wife finished her flaming baton performances - someone whose sole military service has been helping himself and his corporate butt-buddies to feed at the trough, someone to whom knowledge of military history, the art of warfare and the techniques of military action are as alien as the simple gun safety rule of never shoot your hunting companion in the face - and you make HIM the de facto war czar - so that anyone actually qualified to do the job heads for the hills.
That's a plan, alright, but not one destined for any success.
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Gonzales is SO screwed.
[Read the article: Spin, Alberto, spin!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The more time that passes, the greater the peril for the memory-challenged Attorney General:
Kyle Sampson, former top aide, has told Congressional investigators that Mr. Gonzales was “inaccurate,” or “at least not complete” in asserting that he had no role in the deliberations about individual United States attorneys who were later dismissed, a Democratic senator said Monday.
The statements during an interview with investigators last Sunday, were made public as the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a hearing that had been scheduled for Tuesday in which Mr. Gonzales was to appear to defend his actions in the dismissals.
In his interview, Mr. Sampson said under oath Gonzales took part in discussions last fall about David C. Iglesias, who was removed as the United States attorney in New Mexico, as well as in a June 2006 meeting that addressed concerns about Carol C. Lam, the United States attorney ousted from her job in San Diego.
Can Alberto spell O-U-C-H?????