Letters to the Editor
midnight04
Published Letters: 225 Editor's Choice: 9
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Mass murder
[Read the article: Face of a psychopath]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nobody has given me a license to commit murder and therefore I am stuck resisting the death of millions of people just like me.
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Enough ideology
[Read the article: Bloomberg's ambitions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have had almost eight years of experience with ideologues who have gotten us into a disastrous war, alienated our allies, made the religious right boss over our lives and screwed up science. I look forward to a chance to have a manager manage things like FEMA, for instance guided by the Constitution (finally) and capable of pronouncing nuclear properly as well as being trusted with the button.
Bring me Bloomberg.
Karen
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Can we impeach now or do we have to wait?
[Read the article: White House: Trust the "sole enforcer"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am truly frightened by those two people at the head of our government?
Karen
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A coincidence?
[Read the article: Hyping the intelligence again?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am fascinated about the coincidence that the terror level seems to be ratcheted up when the Attorney's General mess is coming to a head. It is so...fascinating.
Karen
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The cure
[Read the article: Bush's magical shield from criminal prosecution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Constitution has clearly defined remedies for our malady. It is called impeachment. We have never had a double impeachment but we have never had such total malfeasance, either.
We need to do this now and not later. I saw the interview with Moyers and I agree with the points raised. If we do not intervene now through our elected representatives, we pass to the next President and Vice President an office tainted with a power grab that amounts to a coup d'etat.
Karen
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So?
[Read the article: Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Before we blame the Democrats, what do I do about it? How do I vote to restore transparency to the way our nation is governed? How do I get to eject a megalomaniac incompetent who has declared himself a king?
Karen
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Rove's future
[Read the article: The collapse of Karl Rove]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right now, Karl Rove is the equivalent of an Ebola virus carrier to the rest of the field and none of them will associate with him in public.
Giuliani has already lost two high-level consultants to scandal and will probably not be moved to put Rove in any capacity except a Deep-Throat informant. The rest of the field doesn't want to deal with a loser and Rove is now considered a loser, having a hand in the trashing of the Bush administration (the prosecutor scandal, the Plame-Libby affair, the minimization of the religious right as a political force in the 2006 election). He may be a master of facts but he is not considered a master of conclusions.
He will write his book, spin his role in the debacles mentioned above and make lots of money. His karma will come later -- much later.
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Another rep shot to hell
[Read the article: Yes, but will Michael Gerson take the credit?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am beginnng to think there is something horrible about command so that some folks are willing to crash and burn in the interests of being "a good soldier." The general spent how many years building a reputation as a straight shooter and an innovator? And he is willing, like Esau, to sell it all for a bowl of chili. How sad.
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Missing in Action
[Read the article: After 9/11, Rudy wasn't a rescue worker -- he was a Yankee]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the same time Giuliani was MIA at Ground Zero, our local Cardinal was polishing apples and kissing butts at the Vatican for the month of October instead of presiding, as he should have, at every fireman's funeral he could get to. Interviewed from Rome, he had the gall to say that he was enjoying being there. He could have expressed even insincere chafing at the bit but, no. He was having a good time.
His predecessor, Cardinal O'Connor, would have told the Pope that his city had been attacked and that he could not spend a month away from the suffering. And the Pope would have assented because he knew what good episcopal behavior looked like. It looked like Avery Dulles, also a cardinal, who gathered up some kids at Fordham University and helped them wtih their fears.
A lot of people, including Christie Whitman, were AWOL during those weeks and many of the rest of us are bitter about it.
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First and foremost
[Read the article: The Democrats' responsibility in the wake of Gonzales' resignation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Constitution is the ultimate client of the Attorney General and it is absolutely essential that Congress remember that and make sure the AG candidate knows it, too.
Karen
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The Embrace of Respectability
[Read the article: Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Evidently it is more respectable to dress in a diaper with a prostitute than seek anonymous sex in a bathroom. It is more respectable to seek comfort with the opposite sex than with one's own. And it is more respectable to lie about who one is than to stand up for it. It is more respectable to make the lives of others miserable by one's own position and prejudices than to be honest.
Oh, the respectability. Are we going to march over the cliff together wearing our suits and ties?
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Olson
[Read the article: Will Bush dare to nominate Ted Olson as attorney general?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush will nominate Olson and then Olson will withdraw his nomination when every rotten thing he has ever done starts gettting discussed in front of the Senate. At that point, Bush will surrender and nominate the guy he really wants as Attorney General, Homer Simpson, his equal.
Karen
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Mark Bingham
[Read the article: The gay voter's guide to the GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What these idiots don't recall is that many of them owe their lives to a gay man who stood up on September 11, 2001 and kept the hijackers from directing the plane at them. He gave his life for them. His sexual preference was irrelevant and sexual preference should be irrelevant. If a couple wants to commit to one another, gay or straight, they ought to be allowed to do it.
The Republican Party has been taken over by a band of anxious Christian rectum watchers whose sole preoccupation is the content of someone else's trousers. I could not see any gay person voting for any of them. I am gay in the sense that one of the posters said, I care about gay rights and I care about the consequences of unfortunate choices, having worked in an AIDS treatment program. I would not be ashamed if my sexual orientation was toward members of my own gender and I would be damned if I voted for someone who said I was wrong-headed, sinful and bound to Hell because of it.