Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 17 Editor's Choice: 2
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Handing down indictments
[Read the article: All the vice president's men]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"As Washington waits on pins and needles to see if special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald hands down indictments, the focus falls on Dick Cheney's inner circle."
Please make your copy-editing staff aware that indictments are not handed down. Verdicts are handed down. Indictments are handed up.
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Theocratic fascist
[Read the article: How will you remember Tom DeLay?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I refuse to allow liberal Democrats an opportunity to steal this seat with a negative personal campaign," DeLay said in a video announcement Tuesday.
Whoever thought up the expression "That's rich" must have had DeLay's statement in mind when he came up with it.
Tom DeLay is a theocratic fascist. The fact that he will henceforth not be setting or influencing governmental policy is very much a good thing.
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Indictments up or down
[Read the article: An indictment watch, but what about Cheney?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Associated Press says Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury will meet again Wednesday. Maybe it will hand down an indictment for Karl Rove."
Verdicts are handed down. Indictments are handed up.
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About impeachment
[Read the article: Hillary's sex life, Frist's gorilla surgery and Christopher Dodd]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Dodd . . . voted against Clinton's impeachment in 1999."
Senators don't vote for or against impeachment. By the time the case came before Dodd, Clinton had already been impeached by the House. Dodd voted against convicting Clinton in his impeachment trial.
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Hypocrite Hatch
[Read the article: Capture the flag]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hatch has also linked flag burning to the scourge of liberal judges, which remains one of the best issues for the unpopular Republican Congress. "Five unelected activist jurists changed the law," Hatch said at the Flag Day rally, referring to the divided 1989 Supreme Court decision that struck down federal laws against flag burning.
How about when the five unelected activist jurists gave us an unelected president? Was that OK?
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Gingrich is delusional
[Read the article: Gingrich vs. Gore in 2008?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Newt Gingrich is seriously delusional if he thinks he's going to get anywhere near the presidency, given some of the baggage he's carrying:
- Married his high school math teacher
- Served his first wife (the math teacher) with divorce papers while she was hospitalized with cancer
- Railroaded Speaker Jim Wright out of office
- Directly blamed Susan Smith's drowning of her children on the Great Society
- Called Democrats "the enemy of normal Americans"
- Said that men are biologically driven to "hunt giraffes"
- Shut down the federal government because (he thought) Bill Clinton was mean to him
- While denouncing Clinton for his extra-marital activities was engaged in similar behavior with a House aide
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Due process
[Read the article: And a happy Fourth of July to you, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Melanie Morgan, a fixture on "Hardball" and Fox News, says it's high time for the government to bring treason charges against the New York Times for reporting on the financial-monitoring plan. "My advice to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at this point in time is chop-chop, hurry up, let's get these prosecutors fired up and get the subpoenas served, get the indictments going, and get these guys behind jail," Morgan says.
Notice that she omitted that pesky step "Give them a fair trial" as well as that thing that happens before one goes to jail, what's it called? Oh yeah, being convicted.
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Warts and all
[Read the article: Bush to widow: "No point" in talking about the war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On his way to vacation at his parents' compound in Kennebunkport, George W. Bush stopped at a local elementary school Thursday.
When he's there, do they call it Compound W?
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The Chris Dodd experience
[Read the article: The Chris Dodd experience]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Simon treated the Iowans to a 15-minute mini-concert of old Simon and Garfunkel favorites. Perhaps in deference to Dodd's lagging position in the Democratic field, Simon did not sing "Bridge over Troubled Waters."
How about "The 59th Street Bridge Song"? "Just kickin' down the Kabul stones..."
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About the Supremes
[Read the article: Giuliani, Robertson and 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe Robertson also once expressed a wish that God would whack a few Supreme Court justices so that they could be replaced with Bush appointees. Does Rudy find that appropriate?
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Interesting article, but...
[Read the article: The Republicans who would've impeached Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a fascinating article on a topic that's certainly relevant, but I noted two problems.
The author writes, "The release of an audiotape directly implicating Nixon in the Watergate burglary led to his resignation on Aug. 9, before the full House could vote on the impeachment." Even today, I don't believe there's any evidence tying Nixon to the burglary itself, and there certainly wasn't any in 1974. The "smoking gun" tape released on August 6 directly implicated Nixon in the cover-up of the burglary.
The author also writes, "Near the close of the Watergate committee's proceedings, James Mann Sr. issued a prophetic statement. He said, 'If there be no accountability, another president will feel free to do as he chooses, but the next time, there may be no watchmen in the night.'" Mann actually said watchman, and the distinction is significant -- he was referring specifically to Frank Wills, the security guard at the Watergate complex who alerted the police to the presence of the burglars.
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Annoying grammar snoot
[Read the article: U still up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like, what happened to a date? What happened to calling? To planning in advance? I realize this will open me to ridicule.
Possibly. A real "grammar snoot" wouldn't use the redundant "planning in advance."
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Kill two birds with one stone
[Read the article: Barack Obama is a Muslim, and other stories]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If I have the honor of taking the oath of office as president, it will be with a deep and abiding faith in the country I love."
He could have used this opportunity to say "If I have the honor of placing my right hand on our family Bible to take the oath of office next January..." It would have been a way to address the issue without actually repeating (and thus giving some currency to) the canard.