Letters to the Editor
mattwa33186
Published Letters: 432 Editor's Choice: 45
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Democrats are what's wrong with this country
[Read the article: When Democrats collapse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I don't mean that in the neo-Conservative, feed the rich political agenda, idiot redneck way.
What I mean is the Republicans have trancended politics, at the worst possible time and in the worst possible way, while all the Democrats can do is think about the political ramifications of everything they do, and everything the Republicans do. As inept, destruictive, stupid, dishonest, and arrogant as the Republicans have become, they have identified problems (wrongly, in nearly every case), devised solutions (stupid ones, in nearly every case), and done everything in their power to implement those solutions (clumsily, and with little regard for the law, in nearly every case).
Meanwhile, the Democrats have taken all the momentum and Congressional seats they have gained from the growing hatred of our President and all his buddies and turned it into... nothing. The Republicans are still in charge because they have moved the game to a playing field the Democrats are completely unfamiliar with - actually doing something instead of philibustering and intellectualizing. They worry more about getting re-elected than doing what's best for their constituents, par for the course but they have yet to realize or they just don't care that the stakes have become much, much higher in the last 7 years. They cave in the face of Bush doing things that would send an ordinary man to prison on his way to the 7th circle of Hell in the name of "saving the Republic" (anyone remember the 2000 election?) while ignoring the fact that the Republic is well on it's way to being destroyed right now and we need them to do something about it right now.
The entire federal government deserves to be impeached.
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Hispanics are people, too
[Read the article: Is Rush Limbaugh right?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And as such everybody, from the White House to the GOP to the author of this article, needs to stop painting them all with the same brush.
Mel Martinez is Cuban. This gives him a very different perspective on immigration than a Mexican or a Honduran since there is no such thing as an illegal Cuban immigrant - once their feet are dry they are taken to Krome Avenue, picked up by a relative or representative of a Cuban organization, and can never, ever be asked or forced to leave for any reason. This is as opposed to the regular INS sweeps through the poorer sections of Dade County that scoop up Nicaraguans, Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, etc... and send them back to wherever they came from.
White people see Mel as just another hispanic. Maybe black people do, too. Hispanics don't see him that way, because they understand that there are hundreds of hispanic cultures and the only thing they have in common is their language (barely) - certainly not their political views or the way they are treated by our government.
What Bush showed in Texas, and is showing now, is not that he is a friend to Hispanics, but that he is a friend to Mexicans. There is a big difference, but it is being obscured by the fact that most illegals are Mexican and the ignorance of the American populace as a whole.
After what GBII did to the Cubans before the 2004 elections, denying them the ability to help family members still on the island and making it easier for a gringo to visit than it is for a Cuban, the case can be made that Bush and the GOP have abandoned conservative hispanics completely, and that Mel is a figurehead Tio Tomas. This isn't about the GOP going after hispanic votes, its about them going after liberal votes. I have never said this before, but Rush is right.