Letters to the Editor
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Thank you
Thank you from an indignant world citizen here at the bottom of the Pacific - for your lucid, persistent and wry approach to the very serious problem that faces America and the rest of us, as a result of that man's dimwitted and shallow approach to 'most everything.
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Once again, THANK YOU, Mr. Keillor
Those of us who live in the reality-based world once again salute you, Mr. Keillor. This emperor has no clothes, and there are millions of us who've known this for the entire time of this misbegotten presidency. What will it take for the good people of this country, who ARE the majority, to rise up and demand that this man must leave OUR White House? Let's restore our honor as a nation -- this man must GO.
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GOP: Grand Old Prostitutes
The GOP won't save us, the people. They'll only save themselves and their political careers by keeping a hundred yard pole away from the President and his administration.
Fact is, the current GOP conclave voted in favor of the President's policies on war and torture straight down the line and now they realize, through recent polls not their own conscience, that those draconian policies are not playing well with the American people.
During the upcoming elections, don't be surprised if the GOP continues to bash gays, Mexicans, abortionists, and Hillary Clinton again and again and again because they will and it won't have anything to do with saving us from the current administration.
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am I crazy or has...
the tide really, really turned against this prez and possibly the GOP? When Garrison K writes 2 articles within a month on Bush The Lessor, its gotta be a Kronkite-esque moment. I read all his articles and it could be on anything and often is. I'm not surprised as this article is in-character. Its just a feeling I'm getting that other folks who haven't gotten it are really really starting to get it. Really. Thanks GK and keep them coming.
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Can we draft you, Mr. Keillor?
If a paranoid, one-note Charlie with the most annoying voice ever on a grown adult can be drafted to run for President and capture 18% of the popular vote, surely a thoughtful man who can defend his own reasoned views in his own hand and with the best voice in broadcasting can move this country to a better place.
When I read Presidential Histories of the 19th century where so many of the C.O.'s were described as accidental or feckless or at best corrupt, befuddled bystanders.
O, for those halycon days of Franklin Pierce.
Just please, no Larry King call-in...
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My shadow government...
While trying to recover from the 2004 election, I spent some time that November, and into the winter, trying to lift my spirits by inventing an alternative, or "shadow" government. And, of course, Garrison Keillor, was given a very prominent role:
http://blogs.salon.com/0004000/2004/11/21.html#a128
The reasons are obvious: his eloquence, gentlemanliness, and just plain common decency and sense... and more.
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in 2004...
i copyrighted a phrase, though i still don't know if someone used it before me. simply this:
it takes a village of idiots to elect the village idiot.
sadly, tragically, it will take generations to recover from this presidency. i get borborygmus in the brain just thinking about it.
bbd
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As long as Bush torments Democrats...
...his party will ask nothing else of him.
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Bromides and Homilies Up My Privates
This is the same guy who told us a few months ago that John Roberts was going to get on the Supreme Court anyway, so let's wish him well. Be Well, Stay Comatose and and Keep Nice.
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Only the GOP can save us
Garrison Keillor would have a better chance finding an ivory-billed woodpecker than he'd find an "honorable Republican."
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Mr. K, please keep it up.
God Bless America, will a thousand voices equal to a Mr. Keillor (if only there were even one or two) trumpet this message to the heavens. Blast the dullard in that white house! What a disgrace, not only to a nation but to a species, to humanity.
Nice writing, G. Keep it up, please. No one does it with quite so much style. And spare not the edge of your blade.
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I'm not holding my breath.
You are right about everything you say. Let's hope the republicans rise to the occasion. However, I'm not holding my breath. If any republican has the guts and credentials to stand up and say Bush and the neocons were wrong, its John McCain. Did anyone see his performance at that "straw poll" in Tennessee? You'd think Bush personally appointed him. Perhaps he is up for a Medal of Freedom.
As you point out, the current administration is good at covering its behind. It seems like GOP has adopted the same strategy. They are just going to pretend nothing is wrong. They will attack the democrats as tax and spend liberals that are soft on national security and wishy-washy on moral issues.
The question is, will the democrats find a voice and regain the senate majority in 2006? Everything depends on this. It doesn't look promising. The democrats currently have no national voice. Gore and Kerry are busy playing the "I told you so" card and Clinton is busy playing golf with Bush the senior. Democrats need a fresh voice that is not encumbered with a lot of polical or personal baggage. Barack Obama or Janet Napolitano, perhaps. This is the only way out.
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The sad truth about Americans
There is a disease in this country, and it is supreme ignorance. It is the fundamental evisceration of the public education system that allows people to remain undereducated and susceptible to political manipulation. It allows people to be fearful of speaking out because they have no marketable skills and cannot afford to jeopardize their current job. They cannot evaluate the policies of the Republican administration to observe that they are more fascist than truly "conservative." They cannot understand the bigotry and backwardness of the strong-arming Religious Right packaged as "American values." They cannot understand that their economic well-being is sacrificed by their own party members on a daily basis at the corporate/lobbyist trough. They cannot understand the sacrifices that will be made by their own future blood relatives in order to reverse, or compensate for, the economic, domestic, and foreign policies of these Fools in the White House. What is the evidence for this statement? These fearful people elected him twice, and they will elect a fool like this again. I would love for him to be removed for high crimes, but the foxes have covered their tracks, and they will get away with it. This is the sad truth.