Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 46 Editor's Choice: 4
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More of the same
[Read the article: The Democrats' disarray, the Republicans' delight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just once when I read an article about the Democratic party can it please, please, please not have any of these sentences:
1) The Democrats have no message.
2) The Democrats are in disarray.
3) The Democrats better not gloat.
4) The public is going to turn on the Democrats.
5) Polls show the public doesn't trust either party.
6) The public dont believe the Democrats have the answer
either.
7) The Democrats better not think they can enjoy this.
8) The Democrats caused this fight and they are going to
be sorry.
I have no idea why in an age of total GOP political dominance the media insists on attacking the people out of power rather than taking on the people in power. But if they insist on demeaning the Democrats shouldn't they at lease change the script and come up with something new to say.
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Kate O'Beirne
[Read the article: My lunch with an antifeminist pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She's smart, funny and totally clueless as to the modern middle class world of women. She is an upper class conservative cliche' who believes that every women's life is just like her own tidy neat one. Its great that she had the option of choosing not to work because her husband made enough money to support their family. However,for the vast majority of women, having both partners in the marriage work is not some feminist social statement, it because in our low wage economy it takes two working people to pay the bills. Conservatives like Mrs. O'Beirne simply refuse to believe this because its easier to blame feminism than to take on the corporate economy. And I'm holding my breath waiting for Kate to defend those welfare mother's staying home to bond with their children instead of being forced into government work programs only weeks after they have had their children to keep their benefits.
She, scorns claims of domestic violence and it effects on the family and women. I guess it interferes with her nice story book ideas of male and female relationships. Does she know anyone who has been in an abusive relationship or is she beyond those kind of people? I challenge her to spend one day in a domestic violence Court and not have her views change forever.
She doesn't think women want subsidized daycare, even though quality daycare in the year 2006, frequently costs more than most people's monthly mortgages and is a terrible struggle to pay. Tellingly her proof that women don't want daycare is some obscure right wing poll. She believes the daycare problem is easily solved by letting a relative provide day care for little Junior, clearly not recognizing that today, the relatives (granny and auntie) are ususally working themselves and aren't available.
Finally, she talks glowingly about the two parent family, and who isn't for that? But when a marraige doesn't work, when a partner is unfaithful, an addict, an alcoholic or abusive, or the parties just don't like each other she wants them to stay together for the sake of the kids! But again, her scruples are flexible, in the past Kate has attacked Hillary Clinton for doing just that. Kate is lost in the 50's and needs to join the real world. Donna Reed left us a long time ago. Oprah's audience would laugh in her face.
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Fiasco
[Read the article: The filibuster fiasco]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Democrats never had a realistic shot at stopping Alito so this tactic is nothing more than a failed theatrical gesture. One last stand from a Senator who couldn't wait 24 hours to concede Ohio to Bush only hours after his blue collar worker stood hours in the rain to vote for him. It accomplishes nothing. Its also stupid politics, as it gives a needed hard fought win to a administration that is imploding before our very eyes. One of the things the Democrats have got to learn is they should stop pretending to have more strength then they really have. As the GOP is in control of everything let them bear the responsibility for everything. The sheer number of Republican Senators in the Senate made Alito's nomination a certainty. Now we will have to hear days of stories about the incompetent, disorganized Democrats insted of the incompetent, disorganized President. Thanks John Kerry. We really needed that.
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Over the pil
[Read the article: Over the pill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, the pill may cause depression, diminished libido and increase your chances of stroke, but so does repeated pregnancies. Given the choice, pregnancy vs. pill most people will take the pill.