Letters to the Editor
Svensker
Published Letters: 496
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D'oh -- Obama's Number
[Read the article: Harry Reid -- compare and contrast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is (202) 224-2854.
You can call the other #, too, to encourage Menendez to stay up with Dodd on the filibuster. From Atrios', here are relevant #s for a buncha folks:
Feingold (202) 224-2725 (202) 224-5323
Dodd (202) 224-1083 (202) 224-2823
Obama (202) 228-4260 (202) 224-2854
Sanders (202) 228-0776 (202) 224-5141
Menendez (202) 228-2197 (202) 224-4744
Biden (202) 224-0139 (202) 224-5042
Brown (202) 228-6321 (202) 224-2315
Harkin (202) 224-9369 (202) 224-3254
Cardin (202) 224-1651 (202) 224-4524
Clinton (202) 228-0282 (202) 224-4451
Akaka (202) 224-2126 (202) 224-6361
Webb (202) 228-6363 (202) 224-4024
Kennedy (202) 224-2417 (202) 224-4543
Boxer (415) 956-6701 (202) 224-3553
Signed,
DFH (I think Hatch just said we all were....)
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Yay!
[Read the article: Harry Reid -- compare and contrast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The good guys didn't win but we didn't lose either. Thanks to Sen. Dodd, Glenn, Christy and everybody who did their bit. Even a small victory is SWEET!
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Yippe and thanks, but
[Read the article: Anatomy and significance of Monday's FISA victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...what do we do now?
I've called/e-mailed Senators to thank them. Sent money to Dodd and posted supportive comment on his blog.
But what next? I like this "winning" thing, it's so fun and unusual.
(Re: Feingold and running for Prez, I think something happened. A few years ago he was definitely running, had a preliminary organization, etc. Then, whether because his family put their foot down, or he's got a skeleton in his closet that someone threatened to reveal, or ????, he decided not to run. Pity, since he's really a good egg.)
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Thanks, Nab!
[Read the article: Anatomy and significance of Monday's FISA victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A New Dawn of Hope
The Lieberman endorsement of McCain is an important milestone in the political development of our nation, which you radlibs myopically fail to appreciate. In the coming decades the US will face multiple challenges from a myriad of enemies both internal and external. Partisan bickering has no place in such perilous times -- it will fatally undermine our nation and render it easy pickings for the vultures waiting to swoop down upon us. But the McCain-Lieberman alliance is is a very hopeful sign of a forthcoming fundamental political realignment, where the best elements of both parties combine to form a new movement, lets say the "America First Party" and the extreme partisan elements are swept away with extreme prejudice into the dustbin of history.
-- nabalzbbfr
So, really, thanks, I needed a good belly laugh. Excellent spoof.
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@ Ms.Anthropia
[Read the article: Harry Reid's pro-life stance vs. Ron Paul's ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have discovered Glenn's secret -- he is actually that strange, elusive creature described in Jonah Goldberg's latest (onliest?) tome, Liberal Fascism.
Glenn, the problem is that people don't like thinking about the beam in their own eye when it's so much more fun pointing out the mote in the other guy's orb.
Or, like the Republican torture supporter said (Andrew Sullivan had it just recently), if the U.S. tortures it's for a good reason so it's OK. When somebody else tortures, it's for a bad reason, so it's not OK.
It's tough not being tribal.
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Shoot
[Read the article: Reid and company target the true enemy: "Dodd and his allies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I was about to send Reid an e-mail thanking him for blocking Bush's recess appointments over the Christmas break. (To make up for the somewhat terse phone calls and e-mails over FISA.) Give 'em hell, Harry. Uh huh.
Congrats to Glenn (I think?) for being Antiwar.com's Liberal of the Year.
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@ Kovie
[Read the article: Political Christmas wishes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for a very clear explanation of the problem with McCain's ad. I cannot and will not criticize McCain for what he thought, believed, felt, when he was a POW. Nor can I criticize anyone for their faith -- or lack thereof -- in the Divine. We all cope with the human condition in our own way. But exploitive tribalism is a bad thing. As a Christian, I find exploiting Christianity for political gain and partisan hackery particularly repugnant.
Peace to us all.
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Poofing
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't think Peggy was even hinting at the British "poofter" since many Americans don't know that word. Do think she was using the American feminine "poofing your hair" to point out -- again! -- how small, dainty and unserious John "Breck Girl" Edwards is.
I am utterly, deadly sick of these people. They have made a huge mess in the world, caused thousands of deaths, dumped enormous amounts of money -- my dang tax dollars, thanks very much -- down the drain, shredded the Constitution, etc., etc., ad nauseam, and they're busy prancing around bleating about who is serious or not. How long before rage is fatal?
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Brushes his hair like a girl
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ZOMG, John Edwards brushes his hair like a girl!!!!!.
Yes, this is certainly a complete and irrevocable denunciation of Edwards. Brushing your hair in a certain way is much more of a disqualifier than being a torturer, or attacking countries without any provocation, or causing thousands upon thousands of deaths.
Too bad no one had video of GWB brushing his hair before 2000 -- we could have saved the world a LOT of misery.
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Which is worse? 911 Conspiracy Theories, Ron Pauliacs...or Shooter?
[Read the article: 9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps it is the biliousness of too many holiday gatherings in too short a space of time talking, but today I have no hope of anything coming of the torture tape destruction, except a few sternly worded letters.
Of course, none of it matters since Sandy Berger once did something bad.
I hope your digestive tract and spirits are in better shape than mine, Glenn.
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Military worship
[Read the article: The bipartisan consensus on U.S. military spending]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Beast blog has it's "most loathsome" of 2007 up: http://www.buffalobeast.com/122/50mostloathsome2007.html
One of my favorites -- a trifle crude, perhaps :), but certainly apropos to this discussion:
Nothing says "I have a tiny penis" like a douchebag taking pictures of himself with a gun.
Glenn has written about the connection between the worship of faux masculinity and our current woes. I can't help but agree that the military sickness that is taking over our culture is connected to fear, especially fear of being seen as small, cowardly, unmanly.
I have nothing against the military, per se -- I was a volunteer myself in the late 70s -- but in a free and democratic republic, the military should be a minor part of not only our budgets but our lives. Swaggering and false bravado not required.
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Dear WT re vacuuming
[Read the article: 9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd agree, but didja hafta start LWM off on his Pauliac thing?