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Published Letters: 5
"and arguably the worst"??? What's the argument? Who even comes close?
The most disturbing thing about this story is that Marchese and Arnold are able to make a living writing this crap. And, what does it say about us for reading it :(
I love the line "... there've been a lot of books written about 1968 and 1969 -- those are really the seminal '60s years"
That is a good trick for the eighth and ninth years of a decade to its "seminal" years.
After reading the articles about and interviews with Joe Biden and Chris Dodd I am thinking these are two men who could beat any of the herd of Republicans out there. I not sure I could say that about any of the front-running Democrats.
I wish them both the best of luck.
Mr. Romm is letting his bitterness over the failings of the American auto industry influence him too much. While everything he says about them is true he is ignoring the importance of the auto industry to the over-all economy. I believe something like one in ten workers in the U.S. work for the auto industry. If GM (or Ford or Chrysler) goes bankrupt they will take most of their suppliers with them. A lot of people work for those companies. If those workers quit spending in the businesses that rely on them for their business there will be an unemployment chain reaction the likes of which haven't been seen since the great depression. It's like this, if an autoworker loses his job he doesn't buy as much from the grocer; the grocer lays some of his workers off; those laid-off workers don’t buy any airline tickets for their vacation in Cancun; the airline doesn’t buy any more airplanes; the airplane manufacturer doesn’t build any more airplanes and lays me off; I quit spending money on non-essentials such as a subscription to Salon, and so forth. You can probably guess that I support the Detroit bail-out. This will also give the country a chance to make sure they build the cars that we need for the future.
I wonder if Sen. Feinstein is worried that Panetta, with his hands being clean, will expose her complicity with the Bush gang on illegal spying and torture.
