Letters to the Editor
jmooney
Published Letters: 27 Editor's Choice: 7
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Short list
[Read the article: The scarlet R]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Looking at the 17 Blue States (2004 Election Results) with GOP Senators, gives a short list of 7:
OR: Smith
MN: Coleman
PA: Spcter, Santorum
RI: Chaffee
NH: Gregg, Sununu
Maine has Snowe and Collins, but they're women and don't wear cuff links AFAIK.
My guess would be the smart one from Pennsylvania, but I'm not sure about the French Cuffs? If someone can check whether they use cuff links and what their shirt-cuffs look like, we could get it down some more
:-D
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Shorter List
[Read the article: The scarlet R]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh wait ... only 2 GOP Senators from the Short List of 7 are up for '06 contests ... Santorum and Chaffee
Given the post noting that the guy is bummed about the perceptions vs. the actual policies, it must be the dumb one from PA.
:-P
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How Quaint, Alberto ...
[Read the article: Will Bush and Gonzales get away with it?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's especially poignant since I believe that the penalties include the death penalty. According to a recent Washington Post article:
"That law ... threatens the death penalty if U.S.-held detainees die in custody from abusive treatment"
I would expect action much sooner than '08 if the Democrats can muster any cajones by November ....
htt p://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701908_pf.html
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Thank you
[Read the article: Give me five more minutes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you Ms Miller
Thank you for making my eyes water here at my desk, at lunch.
Thank you for making me imagine a shattering loss of life, and wishing for 5 minutes more with someone. To say the things gone unsaid.
Thank you for making me imagine smelling someone's clothes and really feeling the memories from that person.
Watching and reading the news, it is difficult to personalize the daily announcements of new deaths. Thank you for making me feel hurt and loss that these stories really represent.
Thank you for Aaron. He is greatly missed ...
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Where's Karl?
[Read the article: Democrats on the edge of Senate control]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm jonesing for some gloating. Let's have a perp walk...
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What else is it?
[Read the article: "Civil war," "new phase" or just stayin' the course?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here are the "reductionist" phrasings I see that the media and the administration could label it as:
A) Civil War
B) Anarchy
C) Utter mayhem
D) Total chaos
E) Civilian-to-civilian, every-man-for-themself complete combat
Whatever the label, it is NOT winning, making progress or installing democracy that will ripple through the middle east.
Where's a Commander-in-Chief, leader type personality to be found when you need one?
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Gar, baby!
[Read the article: A Christmas carol for 2006]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Loved it - it moves me. I can feel the mood. Great pitch ... flesh it out some more and I'll shop it around.
I'm thinking Mel as Ben Scrooge - he's hurting for a redemption role and he'd have just the right comedic touch as a ghost. Super! Maybe that Back to the Future dad, Willard guy as RW Crathcit. He looks spindly. I'm calling Devito as I type - he'll direct and cameo ...
Call my girl - let's do lunch!
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Weeks before he "decides"
[Read the article: Will Bush listen to reason?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A telling piece about this news for me was when Brian Williams mentioned on NBC News last night that it will be 'weeks before Bush makes a decision' about the report's recommendations.
I'd hate to be one of the 'n' Americans now in Iraq who will have to pay the ultimate cost of Bush taking his sweet time deciding.
But, I guess being the decider affords you that luxury of time that not all Americans can enjoy.
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It's quite simple ...
[Read the article: What, me hurry?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The evidence is pretty irrefutable now, I would think. It's called a: Vacuum of Leadership.
The guy's a shop floor supervisor, not a brilliant, decisive CEO. In fact, sound's like the Decider is actually a bit indecisive.
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That's the Problem with George W. Bush
[Read the article: They'd surely say "thanks" if they could]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He can't keep his facts straight.
We didn't go to war to instill democracy in the Middle East and liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein until about, oh, early 2005.
Before that, we went to fight Al Qaieda over there, so we didn't have to fight them over here, circa 2004.
Before that, in 2003, we went to war in Iraq because Saddam wasn't complying with UN Resolutions to eliminate his WMD programs, which didn't actually exist.
Haliburton, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Bush - these are the outstanding debtors who owe the American people - particularly the maimed and fallen - a debt of unreimbursable gratitude. Not the Iraqi people.
What in God's name - I'm talking earth's God, not the voice W hears - does he think they have to be grateful for? They're all fleeing the country anyway?
He isn't even paying attention.