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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Dear Glenn,
Thanks for your in-depth reporting about the important yet overlooked issues of our day. Your ability to tie together all the patterns of behavior of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy (VRC), including comparing their statements to reality, comparing their statements to their own past statements, bringing to the light of day the behind the scenes psychology that drives them, in a way that exposes the astounding stupidness, venality, and hypocrisy which seems to be at the heart of everything they do is much appreciated. Salon is a favorite news source for me (I'm in my second year of paid membership) and if I didn't have enough reasons to read it already, your column alone would be a strong incentive. Please keep up your excellent reporting, America needs it.
Historians will long wonder why the Democrat controlled congress, given that they were elected to combat Bush, and given his weakness and now-laughable transparent scare tactics, was so unwilling to challenge him. In hindsight, it will seem so obvious that they could have won that experts will be unable to fathom why it didn't happen. All sorts of conspiracy theories will rise up about Bush blackmailing Pelosi and Reid in an attempt to explain the unexplainable. Future panels will be convened just to study this one aspect of our times. Millions will be spent trying to understand the phenomenon, the abject failure of the Democrats to stop Bush when they held all the cards. I hope these future historians are able to answer the question of why it happened. I watch in astonishment as it unfolds before me. I simply cannot explain it. It goes beyond gutlessness or expediency - it is something we don't yet fully understand. Perhaps it will even get a label - like "group think," which was applied to the Kennedy group who dreamed up the Bay of Pigs disaster as a way of describing the particular dysfunction that led a whole group of people to think and act irrationally.
You asked why am I astonished, and I certainly see the Dems problems as going back a long way, to at least the Reagan era. But nobody can compare the admitted criminal acts and obvious lies of the current administration to any former government in the history of the U.S. It would be easy, given the will to do it, to impeach many top officials, hold criminal trials, and convict them using their own words as evidence. Nixon was toppled by his lack of credibility, yet these bums have done and said far worse. Yet not only are the Democrats unable to hold them to account for their crimes, they can't even stop them from shoving through unpopular legislation. The weakness they are showing, given that they actually have the upper hand, is, in my mind, unparalleled. That's why I'm astonished. How could they be any weaker? I just can't imagine.
>>>Why do you think you can talk about The Motive of "Dems in Congress" as though it's one big monolith.
I hadn't thought of this. Perhaps that says it all. A divided Dem house cannot stand up in the way it needs to to turn things around. Still, I come back to the admitted criminality - I can't understand why anyone can have any opinion about this other than to go after the crooks.
"Fucking assholes!"
I cannot add or subtract from the perfection that is this succinct expression of the disgrace that is our government and elected officials. I can merely repeat it. Again:
"Fucking assholes!"
They should be forced to read these comments.
Please let him know that America wants telcom immunity blocked and for the Democrats to for F*** sake continue to fight against the criminals running our country. Thanks.
Glenn's writing is the most important in the USA today. It is the strongest, most constant, most thorough, most patriotic voice fighting the rising tyranny in America. Glenn: thank you. Salon owners: this is why I subscribe. Msm: Glenn is the standard by which I measure you. Your current grade: F. Mukasey: you're a disgrace.
Glenn, you did this. Your precise reporting on the Democrats' intransigence either shamed them into acting or exposed them to the point where they felt they couldn't hide behind the scenes any more. Note to any other reporters reading this: this is how you do it.
P.s. Let's not forget this isn't over. Eyes open.
I can't even begin to describe the despair I feel at this simply traitorous act of the Democratic party. It's time for them to change their name. They are nothing but paid shills of the telcos.
It's time for a Mighty Wind. Let's blow the Pelosi / Reid / Hoyer hacks out of office. I've never been angrier.
it will be time to look back and say, "Today's the day that fascist America truly started." It's our Reichstag fire.
Someone will stand up for their liberal beliefs and will win big. Jeez, what a crap government we have because nobody's doing that. Obama - what an empty suit. Wake up, politicians - America is liberal, except for you, our stupid government, who doesn't listen to us or care about us.
Disgust.
Hit 'em till they go ! I think the thing that gets me most about all this is their smugness. Smugness + Wrong is not a good combination. They'd get away with it if it were not for you and a few others.
"Bush, Cheney, et al, found guilty on millions of counts of espionage, sentenced to 12 trillion years in jail."
Subhead: "Steven Hawking says universe may not be around long enough for administration criminals to serve full sentence."
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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