Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 600 Editor's Choice: 74
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Bush is God's punishment for listening to people like Pat Robertson
[Read the article: Pat Robertson: God is punishing Ariel Sharon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Haven't these guys noticed that the amount this country gets hammered is directly proportional to the power it gives to people like Pat Robertson and George W. Bush?
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That way if he's convicted Bush can pardon him without costing the Republicans
[Read the article: Scooter gets a trial date]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe if it drags on long enough Scooter can be pardoned BEFORE he is convicted.
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Hypothetically, Congress could limit the administration's power
[Read the article: Spying, torture -- is it all hypothetical?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somehow, I really don't see any limit to what the Bush administration can get away with unless the Democrats take over and can investigate, issue subpoenas, decide who get put under oath, and hopefully even threaten to impeach. The Republicans will never provide any oversight over their own party. They investigated everyone Clinton had lunch with for the previous 20 years, including his cat's fan club, but they won't hold Bush and company to any standard of legality or behavior.
This assumes the Democrats would actually do something if elected. I'm so not confident in them any more. The Republican's certainly act like they will never have to worry about the Democrats ever again.
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Beer plus medications?
[Read the article: Hume: Cheney said he had "a beer" on the day of the hunt]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What medications is Cheney on and is he even supposed to drink alcohol?
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Obviously bleeding?
[Read the article: Cheney and his "witness"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If some of the buckshot entered Mr Whittington's cardio-vascular system and caused a heart attack I have to think he was bleeding quite a bit. If it wasn't for the ever present Vice-Presidential entorage I have to wonder if the man would have bled out before getting to the hospital.
Most people don't go hunting with their own medical technicians but Mr. Cheney probably does.
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Truth and Reality are Irrelevent to the Bush Administration
[Read the article: Mikey, meet Brownie]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If there's one thing that should be obvious by now it should be that what George W. Bush or anyone else in his administration says is determined only by perceived advantage.
If he tells someone they're doing a good job publically it's generally because there are stories in the press that say otherwise. Saying things that aren't true isn't a disadvantage as long as the press gives the lie equal weight or even preferential treatment.
If Bush says "Good Job" that the story on Fox.
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Poor helpless Scooter needs your help.
[Read the article: Now accepting contributions: Scooterlibby.com]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure the contributions will come flooding in as soon as Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity talk up the web site and tell their audience what an injustice Scooter is having to endure.
After all, the Republicans are such powerless victims when faced with the forces of liberalism and the Democratic party's relentless invocation of the Politics of Destruction.
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Let someone else make the hard choices and get blamed for them
[Read the article: Maxed out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Republicans want to keep this quiet and out of the public consciousness as long as they're in control of the government.
If the next President is a Democrat every problem will suddenly become this insurmountable crisis that couldn't be avoided. When the Democrats are invariably forced to make the hard choices necessary to clean up this mess do you thing the GOP will cut us any slack?
Of course if the Democrats are incapable of a national campaign to unseat the Republican majority then I have to wonder what this country will be like by the time it is impossible not to deal with this fiscal train wreck.
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It's nice to have official sources for the good news
[Read the article: Has the crisis passed in Iraq?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure Fox news and the rest of the GOP cheerleaders appreciate having government officials make up good news for them to report.
After all, it's much easier for them to appear "fair and balanced" when reporting what an official source says instead of just inventing this crap themselves.
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Nixon vs Bush
[Read the article: The I-word goes public]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Imagine that Republicans in Richard Nixon's day were as committed as today's GOP to partisan politics. They would have filibustered in the Senate and even shut down the governemt to prevent an impeachment of Nixon. Imagine what Nixon could have done if he knew he wouldn't be investigated much less impeached. Fortunately, back then members of both parties wouldn't stand for what Nixon did.
George W. Bush has committed, and even admitted to, acts that should be impeachable offenses. What will today's congress do? Probably make Bush's admitted illegal acts retroactively legal and refuse to investigate the rest while most of today's elected Democrats just sit and watch.
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Someone other than the Bush administration could have done better
[Read the article: U.S. to stop using Abu Ghraib]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's too bad Kerry didn't become President. He could have made quite a statement about a change of direction by demolishing Abu Gharaib.
Instead we get "Welcome to the new Abu Gharaib, it's just like the old Abu Gharaib".
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Lying is ok if you're on God's side
[Read the article: Another front in the abortion war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously the Right Wing didn't believe Alito and Roberts any more than the rest of us when they claimed not to be committed to overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Yay!
[Read the article: Katherine Harris: I've got Joementum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For a while there I was worried that the Republicans would run someone rational for that Senate seat.
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It's the same crooked administration that was there in 2001
[Read the article: The president -- "more albatross than advantage"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the only thing that's really changed since 2001 is the media coverage of the Bush administration.
Nothing that Bush and his people have done are any suprise to me and many Democrats. Previously, the pressure put on the media by this administration was very successful in keeping the truth of this administration's actions out of the public eye as much as possible.
What I believe has happened in regards to the media coverage is that administration officials used to be able to put quite a bit of pressure on the media to carry the administration's point of view and to not get ahead of negative stories. With the investigations and indictments there has been a loss of influence for pointmen like Karl Rove and Scooter Libby even within the Whitehouse itself. Until fairly recently the major media would rarely go against what the Administration wanted.
The media coverage of Bush we have now should have started in 1999. After all, he's the same guy now he was back then. Today we see what Bush's coverage would have looked like if the press treated him like they treated Al Gore.
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Who could ever replace Gayle Norton?
[Read the article: Interior secretary to resign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After praising Gayle Norton's accomplishments during her tenure George W. Bush said he'd be hard pressed to find someone as good as she was.
The President was on the phone to James G. Watt shortly thereafter.
(ps: this is sarcasm)