Letters to the Editor
The Small Town Hick
Published Letters: 87 Editor's Choice: 2
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Glenn - ignore the spin!
[Read the article: The company we keep]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are hearing all sorts of reasons why we need warrentless surveillance - just as we heard all sorts of reasons why we needed to invade Iraq.
They are all lies.
Perhaps they have an ulterior motive or master plan, or perhaps they just want it because they want it, but all the reasons they give for eavesdropping are nothing but balloon juice, designed to mollify enough of the populace to make it into the next news cycle.
The next couple of months do not worry me as much as the prospect of the next four years as Obama's policies are derided and derailed by the Blue Dogs and Congressional leadership, both of which are in the Republican/neo-con camp.
Then a new Neo-con will be swept into power over the now disgraced Clin sorry, Obama.
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Don't stop with Blue Dogs.
[Read the article: Campaign against warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty is expanding]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Attack vulnerable Republicans, too.
They have more to lose than Democrats.
Now, if only there was a way to use all this money to keep an ex-Congressman from exploiting his connections - the usual golden parachute of the ex-congressman. An effective blackball mechanism would be a REAL incentive for a sitting congressman to toe the line.
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Obama supports Blue Dog, does not respond to amnesty appeal.
[Read the article: George Bush's latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, i was wondering why the Republicans would support a law that would only benefit the next president, who was sure to be a Democrat.
Maybe the reason is because, no matter which one wins, it will be "One of their own" in the White House.
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@ Rufus
[Read the article: George Bush's latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said
"rrriiiiiiiiiiiiight.
I'm sure the gop, the racist fascists, are begging for an obama presidency."
Maybe not begging, but if he gives them what they want, then they can probably live with it.
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@ JackHughes
[Read the article: George Bush's latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said
"The Democratic Party is a political party in name only.
No ideology, no agenda, no strategy, no rhetoric, no party discipline and no leaders."
Right. Just a lot of people making a lot of money at our expense, and exercising power over us at our expense.
Their strategy is to get fat. Their agenda is to get fat. Their ideology is that getting fat is good.
Their rhetoric is that them getting fat is good for us.
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@Rufus11
[Read the article: What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt mean by "bipartisanship"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Remember that when president obama is sworn in and the gop criminals are under servaliance. Who thinks the hypocrites will change their tune when they are goign to jail one after the other?"
None of the hypocrites are going to jail, Rufus.
There is only one party in this country, and this matter has proved it.
The Beltway Party, ruled by lobbyists, sworn to defend their own interests at the expense of ours.
Remember that when President Obama and his GOP allies start writing legislation that would put us in jail for writing this stuff.
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A Greater Worry.
[Read the article: What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt mean by "bipartisanship"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are all looking at this as just a free ride for the telecoms.
What the bill really says is that if the President tells you to do something illegal, you can do it and get away with it.
Think a moment.
What agencies in America could be asked to do something illegal by the President, to the neo-con's benefit?
Diebold?
The FCC?
The networks?
Blackwater? The Army?
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Doesn't matter anymore.
[Read the article: The Scott McClellan sideshow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks to Friday's vote, anything anyone did during the Plame affair is retroactively OK, so long as the President asked them to do it.
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How to Swift Boat Obama
[Read the article: The New Republic syndrome]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jan 2009
I have to admit that I was feeling mighty scared back in June of last year. My party had the lowest approval rating imaginable, and I was considered unelectable even within my party.
But I had three things that tilted the balance. I had the media. I had “allies” inside the Democrat Party. And I had a plan.
There was this bill we needed passed. Some of my buds needed immunity, and my staff said they’d need some of the powers it laid out during the next administration. Thing is, it was really unpopular.
So, I had THE DEMOCRATS pass it. My allies crafted it, introduced it, and voted for it. Even Obama stated he approved, and boy, wasn’t that manna from heaven!
The media got right on it, of course. Every story tied it to the Democrats. Democrat capitulation. Democrat compromise. Democrat, Democrat, Democrat. The word Republican never got near the thing. The few Republican quotes were guarded “we approve” sorts of things. Oh, and also “we got more than we wanted”. That one was important.
So, a month or two went by, the election race heated up, and suddenly the story leaked. The President did something unforgivable with the new powers. Cries of Gestapo and KGB filled the blogs.
And there I was. Blaming the president and distancing myself from his actions. And BLAMING THE DEMOCRATS FOR HAVING GIVEN HIM THE POWERS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
“WE only wanted to defend America It was the DEMS who insisted on adding more to the bill. The DEMS were a shoo-in – they wanted Obama to use these powers.”
The week before the election you couldn’t find a news story that didn’t combine the words Democrat and Thought Police.
There was fallout afterwards, of course. My allies lost their seats – but hey, my ersatz Republicans were all replaced by Real Republicans, and so were a lot of real Democrats. My allies didn’t miss a paycheck, either – my buds the lobbyists made sure of that. The ex-President took a lot of heat, but I magnanimously pardoned him, and hey – winners write the history books!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go to a planning meeting. Karl and Dick are going to lay out the next four years to my staff (officially, they’re out of favor, but . . .). I’m not too clear on the details yet, but one thing’s for sure – during the next four years this government’s going to make history!