Letters to the Editor
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Whimpy The Demo
Well said ! The humor and facts combined to make a good point. I think we need some radical democrats, people who will STAND UP AND FIGHT for what is needed. Not back down and grovel in fear of public opinion.
If the war bill was not passed what would happen ? no money for the war ? and so what ! do you think the military would just tell everyone "OK now we can't pay you so please go home."
Please don't call me a democrat any more. I am not that kind of chicken shit.
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So why did Carter apologize?
Twice I've hit on a link that promises to tell me why Carter apologized for his remarks to President Bush. Twice I've been disappointed. Both Maher and Walsh trot out the "former presidents" to start off their speculative riff on Carter's remorse. Yawn.
These columns represent the bad influence of blogging, a form of opinion that allows the writer to say anything despite an absence of true fact. These two columns define the difference between blogging and journalism precisely.
Not that there's anything wrong with it. I enjoy a lively dining table conversation about the events of the day; I don't expect my guests to have rung up any anonymous sources to shore up their opinions.
But blogging is too easily done...and it can backfire on you, which is what Rose O'Donnell recently discovered, because it's comparable to simply running off at the mouth.
Maybe nobody will ever know why Carter apologized until someone asks him.
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banana_slug
Grant was notorious for drinking VERY heavily whenever he was bored. During the Wilderness Campaign he was drunk almost constantly, and his staff pretty much ran things. As far as he being a "great" general, that's nonsense. The difference between he and Meade, McLellan, Burnside and the others is that they were utterly incompetent in warfare, whereas he was competent. And his competance consisted primarily of throwing so many more men into the meat grinder that eventually Lee had to capitulate, as he had so few. Neither of them was nearly as great as the claims made for them.
His Presidency was notorious for lauding personal loyalty over competence (sound familiar?), and he was a first-class cronyist.
He went broke because he invested in the wrong firm.
The one thing I can say for Grant is that when he found out he was dying he worked on his memoirs until he could no longer lift up his pen so as to keep his family out of poverty. He succeeded in that. He genuinely succeeded in little else.
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Excuse Me
That should have read "banana_fish." Sorry.
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there is not much one can do...
when the country and its citizens want the war to continue.You cannot expect the politicians to grow a conscience all of a sudden. This war was authorized by the people indirectly and it will continue till it reaches critical mass(more bodybags come home than are acceptable) and then history will repeat itself by the new cycle of retribution,retaliation..whose reytribution: ours or the terrorists?history will decide.
In the meantime cops and soldiers are Gods and the next idol shall have a foriegn name!
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Why?
Because he's a dilettante. Stick to observing Central American elections, Jimmy.
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Fear
The reason Dems apologive, back down, and/or stay silent about the crimes and incompetency of the Bush Administration and its enablers, the GOP, is the fact that they are deathly afraid of bieng targeted by the conservative smear machine. The same conservative smear machine that -- employing Rovian tactics -- branded John Kerry an efete war protestor who looks down on the troops (despite being a highly-decorated veteran, himself).
The Dems do not have that cutthroat, bloodthirsty, no-holds-barred mentality that the GOP and its conservative supporters possess. And they are afraid that if they "out" Bush for his incompetency, they will have their dirty laundry aired.
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Bush, what is he good for?
'An orangatan with a magic 8-ball'? There really is nothing as wonderful as laughing your guts out first thing in the morning.
This is the only useful purpose George W. Bush serves as leader of the 'free world'. No one could have invented this buffoon. If you put him in a novel critics would say he was not a believable character. And as for that history degree he's supposed to have...But what does it really matter? Cheney's the one tossing him bananas and telling him what to do. Bush rules by committee and the people on that committee are mostly unelected.What goes on in the Congress doesn't matter to Bush one bit. America needs to change the way the President governs so that if he's lost the confidence of his peers and his people a vote of 'no confidence' can get rid of him. Bush is like a truck with no brakes at the moment speeding down the highway wreaking havoc on everyone. No one can stop him- and he knows it.Unless the Republicans grow a backbone (a long shot, that) Bush will continue his hair raising highway trip until he and the country crash.Blaming the Democrats is futile. They have to work within the system- but the system is so seriously flawed that they can only do what needs to be done if the Republicans agree to it. Bush can veto anything he wants and only a two thirds consensus vote will overturn his veto. Eventually the Republicans will have to act because they'll have no choice but it won't happen next week and a lot of soldiers are going to die or be maimed for life in a war that can't be won before it happens. The onus is on the Republicans, not the Democrats.
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Bravo...
not normally a huge fan of Maher, I'll have to say he hit the nail on the head with this one.
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Bill Maher on the Democrats and On-the-Money
Hammer them, Bill! I am a life long Democrat and am disgusted with this bunch of wimps. They are "afraid" of political fall-out for opposing our ersatz President? If these people don't exercise courage and not fear of the next Congress they should all be tossed out. All! Waxman, Frank and others who make a show of courage and anger and haven't a clue or talent about LEADERSHIP. To even discuss (off the table, out of the box or other shorthands of this limp crowd) attacking Iran as though it is merely agenda is fascist takeover time, or time for Impeachment NOW. I trust no one with a pension at stake in DC! How can you? Conflict of interest is mother's milk to these apes. Is it really possible that Bush has brought them all down, below sewer level?
irwin moss, LA