Letters to the Editor
david-smith
Published Letters: 88 Editor's Choice: 8
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Just Imagine If the Democrats Had Testicles
[Read the article: A no-confidence game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, it just fills me excitement that some Republicans regard Gonzales as such a political albatross, that they're actually willing to express their opposition to his continued tenure in a purely symbolic, non-binding no-confidence vote. Maybe if the Democrats continue to make abundantly clear that they'll never actually stand up to the party of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Tom Delay, Michael Savage, Joe Lieberman, and the rest of the aggregation of human filth known as the Republican Party, then maybe something will actually happen someday.
What the hell makes the Democrats the most hopelessly craven, gutless dupes ever to crawl out of the sewer of American politics? Can they really fail to recognize that every time they "balance" a minimum wage bill with tax cuts, every time they refuse to serve a subpoena on Rove, every time they beg Republicans to restore habeas corpus, every single fucking time they roll over and give the Republicans political cover for their corruption, incompetence and fanaticism, all they're doing is spreading the rancid stink of Republicanism all over the United States political process? MOST OF ALL, can they conceivably fail to see that "bipartisanship" is the single most egregiously stupid piece of Republican propaganda ever to emanate from the rightwing noise machine?
Jesus Christ, I hate the Democrats only the flimsiest cunt hair less than the goddamn Republicans.
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JNagarya, May be You Can Explain the Following
[Read the article: A no-confidence game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, you seem to forgotten one teeny little requirement needed to qualify as a Bush troll, i.e., not loathing Republicanism with every bone in my body. What the hell it is that could possibly have led you to believe I approve of Bush is quite a mystery.
And though the remainder of you letter verges on incoherence, it’s instructive in that it likely reflects precisely the kind of shortsightedness and timidity that account for the pathetic Democratic legacy of futility and impotence.
Particularly remarkable is the observation that
You hate the Republican'ts because they are at minimum uncivil. And you hate the Democrats because they aren't equally uncivil.
Well, gee; I must have momentarily forgotten to include the vital issue of incivility on my list of Republican transgressions, because of my emphasis on such silly distractions as, you know, torture, war crimes, racism, religious fanaticism, wetback-hunting lynch mobs, and shitting all over the U.S. Constitution in fifty different ways. It makes me wonder what kind of mind could possibly imagine that civility has a goddamn thing to do with the Republicans’ proto-fascist efforts to subvert the democratic foundation of the United States political system. See, if you’d actually paid any attention to my original letter, you might have noticed that was exactly the point of my observation about “bipartisanship,” i.e., what you’re calling civility. To wit, it’s complete bullshit.
Since you’ve so helpfully pointed out that politics is the art of the possible, and that the Democrats don’t have sufficient votes to overcome Republican obstructionism, maybe you can explain a couple of circumstances. Let’s leave out the whole issue of funding the Iraq war for the moment; though I completely reject the wisdom of the Democrats’ decision to give in the Simpering Imbecile on the issue, at least there was a plausible argument about the political necessity of doing so. But perhaps, with your imposing level of political sophistication, you could help me understand just two of the specific examples I raised previously:
Why haven’t the Democrats served the subpoenas on Rove and Miers that the Committee issued over a month ago?
What conceivable reason was there to tack on yet more idiot Republican tax breaks onto the first minimum wage bill in over a decade?
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More Profiles in Courage From the Democratic Eunuchs
[Read the article: Political theater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's pray the Republicans give their permission for this vote to go through, or else the Eunuchs might find themselves in a position where they actually have to stand up like men and DO something! Like, say, serve on Rove and Miers the subpoenas they issued over a month ago, adduce evidence that Gonzales has committed inumerable felonies, and - God forbid - impeach him in accordance with the Constitution. You know, all those things that Congressmen tend to do WHEN THEY'RE THE MAJORITY PARTY IN THE GODDAMN SENATE.
Of course, the need to respond in any meaningful way to the continuing Republican habit of shitting all over the U.S. Constitution is only a nightmarish, worst-case scenario; God willing, they'll be able to limit their actions to gutless, purely symbolic expressions of disapproval, while laying low and waiting for the 2008 elections. After all, they wouldn't DARE embrace any positions that upset the racist, warmongering religious fanatics that populate the Republican base. Perhaps if the Republicans in the Senate allow them to hold their little vote, they can then scrape and grovel enough for Bush to do something about Gonzales.