Letters to the Editor
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Ignorance of history.
It is said that W's test scores were 150 pts. below the median of those entering Yale. He surely missed many clases and especially the one that may have touched upon ancient mythology.
One day, he came upon a large trunk that said, 'Pandora's Box'.
Anyone with a modicum of education would have just shivered and given it a wide berth. It is everyone's bad luck that W. opened it up and loosed all the demons. This demonstrates the importance of an informed vote.
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Mad King George
If this fool goes down in history as a success than it will give hope to all fools born in the future.
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Thanks...
all of you Republicans out there... thanks for electing the MOST INADEQUATE president our country has ever, EVER had. TWICE! IDIOTS! Thanks for ruining our country. Appreciate it! Way to go geniuses...
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His legacy?
My guess: It doesn't matter how much he sneers and swaggers, how often the people who serve him kiss his ass, post-mortem history will see people line up to spit on his grave, even pay an admission fee to do it (how about "6 Lungers Over Texas Amusement Park")
... starting with the brothers and sisters and orphaned children and grandchildren of those men and women he caused to be killed because he was so terrified of ever admitting he made a mistake.
Then the Texans, whose trust and affection he just used and abused.
Then the Muslims -- special visas will be given to Iraqi's so that they can fly to Texas and line up to spit (or piss) on his grave, led by the descendants of the Guantanamo prisoners.
The lines will stretch for miles.
His legacy?
People will compare him adversely to Benedict Arnold as a man who betrayed our country and caused immeasurable damage for greed and craven servility.
We're already comparing him adversely to Richard Nixon and Warren G Harding.
He's healthy and rich and should be able to live a long, long life, despite all the coke and booze, and I hope he does, and meets his ghosts every night.
I'm older than he is and probably won't live to see it happen -- but I have no doubt it will. And that gives me some comfort, a sense that justice still exists in our world.
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bush's stairway
I would call it stairway to hell.I do not think that mr.baker et al knew what they were doing when they fixed that florida vote.the reverberations will be felt for the next umpteen generations.I feel for my 3 year old grandsons who will pay for the miscalculations of this man.to present him with a library would be an insult.
keep writing mr.blumenthal
ralph gelper
ralegelp@comcast.com
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@ Expation and @ alicengerty
@ Expation
Heh. Yep, you got that right. It's one of the most interesting features of this classless society. What was interesting to me about your comment is the way you can see one aspect of it play out in many different situations. Inherited 'opportunity' is visible in lots of places, and plays out about the same way. For example, I am surrounded by fairly successful agri-businesses. Where the person who built that business is still at the helm, the acquired assets perform well. But the time that farm, ranch, or dairy passes to the next generation, it begins to unravel. By the third generation, it's toast. I believe the same thing has been documented in some privately held corporations. It's the inheritance of the opportunity that prohibits successive generations from performing. They never did have to perform, and have, therefore, no sense of how to make a 'thing' work. It only works, and it has always worked, and it has never not worked, so it will continue to work well into the future. No reason to believe otherwise, right?
@ alicengerty
Damn! My mother was right. Should have studied more literature. Thank you. A parallel well drawn.
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"Thank you for the privilege of serving today."
Or the aide could just say "I'll be your server today."
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Inane-ymous
"history has judged Ronald Reagan one of the BEST"
At running up huge deficits? Sure...
At using straw man "welfare queens" to stir up division and keep the proles fighting among themselves for scraps from his "trickle down" BS? Check.
At having no clue what the government he was "leading" was doing WRT propping up murderous dictators and genocidal regimes, breaking whatever laws they felt like, selling weapons to terrorists, and starting dirty little wars wherever they wanted? Got me on that one...
At throwing mental patients onto the streets, as governor of California, because funding mental hospitals just wasn't fair to rich people, thereby creating a huge homeless population, an incredible number of which are vets? Go Ronnie, go!!
So, all I have ask is, how's hell treating you, Dutch?
Why do people love comforting myths over the truth...
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"entered a phase"?
Blumenthal has somehow convinced himself that Pres. Bush has recently “entered a phase of decadent perversity” because:
• he keeps compounding his own errors;
• he is indifferent to the failure of his efforts thus far;
• he remains certain in ultimate victory, regardless of what the realities are in Iraq, to which he is inveterately blind;
• he has an inexhaustible ability to turn failure and chaos into success in his own mind;
• he clings to a notion of his vindication by history, even while he is at best indifferent and at worst hostile to the judgment of historians;
• he is insecure, dogmatic, ideological and authoritarian;
. . . and so on. But of course, it has always been thus with this president. There’s no new “phase” here. It’s simply a matter of, as Blumenthal states, falling “deeper into the abyss.”
But again, Blumenthal doesn’t have it quite right. It’s not just Bush who’s casting himself there; we all are falling deeper into that abyss, and we all have had a hand in that casting. Yesterday’s vote in the Senate on Sen. Webb’s measure is just the latest reflection of this, but one of many. Beyond the alternations of exasperation, passivity and seething anger among the electorate, and the cynical political machinations in DC, it is at root, I think, a problem of our country’s basic reflexive inability to confront and deal with failure, and our collective willingness to grasp at the flimsiest of straws so that some notion of success can be kept on life support. This is what the president and his supporters have been exploiting, for years now. And along with that, it’s a problem (among both the president’s supporters and detractors) of being more concerned with assigning blame and exacting political damage for the failures in Iraq, rather than trying to have a forthright discussion of how best to come to grips the mess in Iraq and figure out what to do (or not do) given the conditions there and our hand in creating them.
But at any rate, Blumenthal is mistaken to think that there’s anything the least bit new or different going on here. This all is a very old, seemingly interminable state of affairs, not any new “phase.”