Letters to the Editor
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Churchill Said It Better
Elephantman points out: "Was Blumenthal drunk when he wrote this? Because his behavior lately, including his drunk driving conviction, causes me to wonder about him. Is he still drinking? Because it has been months since he wrote anything new for Salon, right?"
Gosh, kind of funny that you of all critics would make that particular point.
Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.
And you, Elephantman will still be asmug little asshat . . .
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elephant turds, again
drunk driving is a Bush trait, heffalump. and Cheney is a war criminal, and a piss poor shot. How drunk do you have to be to mistake a tall aging lawyer for a grouse? Pretty drunk, or, for Dickless, ugly drunk. You have a party comprised of ugly, ugly people, white elephant.
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Abrams
Defending Elliott Abrams should not be my job. This is the second time a Salon column has labeled him a convicted felon.
Wikipedia says he made a deal and pled guilty to two misdemeanors, and was never indicted on any felony counts.
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bush supporters
The fairly demented foreign policy of the bush administration is not particularly funny, but what is funny is the number of bootlickers who have so eagerly signed on, though rather sad as we approach Patriots Day.
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americans need a new constitution.
the old one doesn't work very well, even when officers are trying. it has no protection against subversion by party or by money. it simply doesn't address modern life in the usa.
i recommend democracy.
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Jmntgmry is right about the first sentence
The first sentence seems to be missing some words. Actually, I'm wondering if that's the real first sentence; maybe a paragraph or two has been chopped from the beginning.
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Well somebody reelected this tool
Maybe the 50% of all voters too fat drunk stupid and dull to get off the La-Z-Boy and vote had something to do with it. There is no such thing as an Imperial Presidency. There is merely a nation of disconnected vaporheads who don't give a shit.
I'm sure you'll go blog about something and piss and whine to one another about it now. Like Doug Stanhope says "You don't vote. You have shit to do, you leave it to old people with breathing problems."
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right-o, electro
that is the nub, electro. if half the people register, and half of those that do register bother to vote, then the victor in a narrow election such as '04 is getting about 23 or 24 percent. Vox populi? No. If even there was a 75% turnout, that would indeed be a revolution. I do not live in hope of that occurring, and it saddens me to say so.
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Vox populi
tom payne's comments on voter turnout:
Well, in the primaries so far this year, turnout on the Democratic side is breaking records, and hordes of people are registering with the Democratic Party.
Unfortunately, they're all Republicans, voting for Senator Clinton. It may be time to face it: this is now a right wing country, and people here l-u-u-v-v torture, and George Bush, and the new feudalism.
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zandru
And here I thought I was a pessimist. You undo me, sir. My quarrel with your point has to do with "republicans voting for Clinton", in a way that implies a cohesion, an organization, a strategy that is capable, in a sustained way, of using open primaries for monkey wrenching. I doubt it. Yes, there is the drooling mob of Rush listeners, and those who do, knowingly, try to rig the other party's nominee. No statistician I, this doesn't ring true. It implies meeting and plotting and thinking. there's scant evidence of any of that, as far as I know. It is true that turnout in Democratic primaries has broken pathetic records; that is damning with faint praise. Originally an Edwards man, I switched to Obama, and have tried to retain some emotional distance from the media froth and the purported involvement of new voters, and re-registrations, and a newfound enthusiasm. I hope so, and fervently. But this is not an overnight fling. To change this country, there has to be a level of galvanization, a unity of purpose, we have not seen in seventy years. Usually, it takes a cataclysm to unite the mob. World wars work. Depression do as well. We have now such a smorgasbord of ineptitude, corruption, impending doom by one means or another, but no single unifying principle. It is for that reason I hang fire about what Obama might mean. He is extraordinary, but we are in sub-ordinary times. The only reason the rethugs did not try to re-inflict the draft is that they knew that would provide the epoxy to glue the shattered progressive movement.
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Nice to have Blumenthal back
Once again, Sidney Blumenthal went out and did some research, took some notes, got it all together and gave us the results. It's funny how different the story comes out when you've done those things, instead of just quoting the latest press releases.
Nice to have him back.
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McCain/Cheney 2008
I wonder if John McCain will select Dick Cheney to be his Vice President?
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McCain/Cheney '08
Is he on the search committee??
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Endangered Species - Real Republicans
George W. Bush jettisoned the tenets of traditional Republicanism -- fiscal responsibility, limited government, separation of church and state, and realism in foreign policy.
Yes, folks, there used to be a Republican Party that sincerely advocated all of the foregoing. It's hard to put an exact date on the hijacking and corruption of a major political party, but I think it may have something to do with the people Ronald Reagan chose to be his associates, thereby becoming the first "puppet president". All the subsequent Republican presidential candidates have been modeled after Reagan: talk high-minded patriotism and fiscal responsibility on the one hand while pursuing an agenda that undermines the moral and financial foundations of the Republic.
I think it was pretty slick of the neocons to put this over on staunch Republicans, who have been gullible enough to see their party embrace an agenda that was diametrically opposed to their former positions. Cheney has been one of the most active agents in the corruption of the Republican Party. Well, they just keep buying the same old gilded excrement: how else do you explain their choice of a deeply incompetent and morally compromised person like McCain for their candidate?
By the way, no one whose idea of recreation is firing a shotgun at animals raised in cages when they are being released to freedom for the first time in their lives can be considered a grownup. On a moral scale this is at a level with the high school girls in my area who microwaved a hamster because they were bored.
Richard B. Cheney is a mentally ill man who needs professional help. The Republican Party is also suffering from a disease, the cancer of neoconism. I wish both rest and a speedy recovery, away from the halls of government.