Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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@ Glenn
[Read the article: Improvement in Iraq: Trust Joe Klein and his secret sources]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]September, you see, is the real turning point, the real Day of Reckoning. Finally, our political elites are going to face the cold, hard truth in an unvarnished and hard-nosed way about The Facts on the Ground. That is the read deadline for George W. Bush. No more leniency for him come September. Republicans, Democrats and their pundit and opinion-making comrades alike have all banded together -- strength in numbers -- and boldly decreed: "No More." Either we have Real Progress in September, or that is the end of the line.
You're mistaken (or perhaps I didn't detect your irony). "September" is just the end af a long string of "Friedman units" (see http://atrios.blogspot.com and search for "Friedman uni" for more on this).
I don't think there's a hard and fast deadline for the catastrophic collapse of public support. Just a slow "drip-drip-drip" of defections as more and more people start seeing things more clearly than the maladministration/MSM hve painted them.
We might be able to manufacture a "drop-dead" date, but in actuality the real "should have been" drop-dead date was March 19th, 2003.
Cheers,
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@ ElyseNC
[Read the article: Improvement in Iraq: Trust Joe Klein and his secret sources]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][re: the Hahvahd Bridge]
The markings are repainted every fall as part of pledge week. It's a very long bridge and the marking that said you were halfway across was always welcome.
You mean the one that says "Halfway to Hell"?
Dunno about "long"; we used to walk it regularly. But we were younger then.
Cheers,
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@ sysprog
[Read the article: Right-wing noise machine: Plame not covert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why, I just put up (on old subject matter but better late than never) a Walt Kelly quote myself today:
http://leastdangerousbranch.blogspot.com/2007/05/we-have-met-enemy-and-he-is-us.html
Shorter, but all the more deadly.
Cheers,
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"shooter242" translated into Monty Python
[Read the article: Right-wing noise machine: Plame not covert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apparently, she doesn't fit the requirements to be legally considered covert. Darn. On the other hand she has told conflicting stories about her role in sending Wilson to Niger. Let's prosecute.
King Arthur: [after Arthur's cut off both of the Black Knight's arms] Look, you stupid Bastard. You've got no arms left.
Black Knight: Yes I have.
King Arthur: *Look*!
Black Knight: It's just a flesh wound.
We appreciate that stoopid gits like Shooter step in every once in a while with stuff so damn absurd as to make anyone that is even thinking of taking pity on any poor members of the 28% that may have been deluded by the Dubya maladministration to take pause and say, "Nah, f*ck 'em ... and bury them before they stink up the place."
Cheers,
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@ Tom Doyle
[Read the article: Right-wing noise machine: Plame not covert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]never practiced criminal law but I studied the subject in law school.
1. It’s my impression that if Ms. Plame’s having covert status was an element of any of the charges for which Mr. Libby was tried, and there was at least a colorable argument that Plame was not “covert” as defined in the relevant statute, Libby’s defense counsel, in pre-trial proceedings, could have (and should have) moved to have such charges thrown out on that basis.
Did this happen? If so, what result? If not, why not?
The scienter requirement of the IIPA specifies that the "knowing" is not as to whether the person is "covert" but rather that the "knowing" is as to whether the information discloses this person as such an agent and that the agent's identity is being protected.
A fine line, and some blurriness, but requiring that the person charged with the crime know that their information identifies the person as a "covert agent" implicitly assumes also that the person is in fact "covert" to begin with. So yes, if Plame was not "covert", it would be hard to prosecute.
No such "proof" by Libby's defence counsel (or motion on that basis) was made, amongst other reasons because Libby wasn't charged with that crime. No inference at all may be made from the lack of such a motion or proferred defence.
But to make such a motion (should the legal) circumstances have warranted it) would require that Plame not be "covert". As detailed, she was.
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@ Paul Dirks
[Read the article: Right-wing noise machine: Plame not covert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it would appear that the current strategy is to reasserrt the lie yet again...and again....and again.....
The truth (if uncontested) needs only be said once. It's the lies that must be yelled louder and LOUDER and LOUDER....
Not that I thought you didn't know this.
Cheers,
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Republican ideals of "toughness"
[Read the article: Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn [from the update]:
... while candidates with actual combat experience are derided as cowards and effiminate losers....
"[C]andidates with actual combat" Silver Stars, Bronze Stars, and such. Just to be clear about the enormity of the RW hypocrisy here.
Cheers,
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Just how stoopid is "Shooter242"?
[Read the article: Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Scientician]: What you think is a dig at us shooter, we proudly embrace....
[Shooter042]: ... What you see as a dig at women is actually a dig at the Democrat "men". You folks are becoming the "Mommy" party.
ROFLMAO. He really doesn't get it. Then again, he's a RW suckup with a need to have Daddy beat him now and again.... What he needs is a dominatrix, though. Maybe we could chip in, spring for a good one, and the therapy might open his eyes just a tad ... after the swelling goes down.
Cheers,
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Bush v. bin Laden
[Read the article: Al-Qaida does it, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Jonathan Hoag]: Bush has already destroyed America's respect throughout the world and is now being given the opportunity to destroy the nation.
He's killed over 3400 U.S. servicement, manifold that number others in other counties, given us a $trillion or so in economic damages, trashed the U.S. Constitution and human rights, and turned "American" into an epithet that makes me glad I carry a red passport when I have to do business abroad....
And the potential for more damage, including conflict leading to WWIII, is not out of the qeustion for Dubya and his maladministration....
Cheers,