Letters to the Editor
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Red Baiting
Everyone is enjoying the downfall of so many corrupt, reactionary, clueless Republicans. But it seems odd that professional liberals like Sidney Blumenthal equates this all to the fall of the Soviet state. I.E. Gingrich as Lenin, DeLay as Stalin, Hastert as Breshnev/Chernenko.
Right.
A shallow view of history, but light impressionism never stopped an editorialist.
Suffice it to say these guys are solidly capitalist politicians. Actually, Mr. Blumenthal, YOUR system's politicians. Lenin was a world-class intellectual. Gingrich was able to write one mediocre, right wing fictional book with another person about the civil war. And, oh yes, DeLay has sent far fewer to the "gulags." Not that I want to stand up for him, but historical analogies should be roughly equivalent, not ridiculous exaggerations.
If I hear the Republican party called "Lenninst" one more time it only goes to show that red-baiting is not limited to cretinous Repbulicans.