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The only real goal of the Beltway pundit is to depict Washington orthodoxies as popular among "most Americans," even when they are not.
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  • David Brooks is not alone . . .

    These wankers are shouting not just from the ramparts of The New York Times, they're also shouting from the Altar to the Gutter.

    Not long ago, foaming-at-the-mouth bull-Catholic Bill Donohue was claiming to speak for 85% of Americans when he attacked Kathy Griffin.

    Now Media Matters is reporting on a Bill O'Reilly rant, (the September 25 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly), where he too claims to speak for the vast majority.

    O'REILLY: The kooks, the loons have a louder voice in this country right now than the 80 percent of Americans who know what's going on, and the reason is the Internet -- the mainstream media sympathizing and using the far-left loons, OK, to crash and burn any opposition.

    http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250009

    I'm sure Meredith Wilson and Franklin Lacey could write a wonderful musical with this material . . .

    "Ya got trouble, folks, right here in Factor City

    With a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'C'

    And that stands for 'Crock'".

  • To shooter242...

    "For those that disagree with Laffer ....

    Isn't it interesting that quite a few concerns increase their revenue offering products and services for less money while making it up in volume? It sure worked for Clinton's tax cut in 1997. You know, the year prior to the surplus?

    -- shooter242"

    You need to learn to pick your times better. The conversation has moved to automobiles.

    GM and Ford are not two of those concerns you speak of. They tried to be and failed miserably. It worked for Clinton because he actually knew what he was doing.

    For the record, nobody disagrees with Laffer. He articulated a truism about business and suggested it should be applied to governments. What people disagree with is the notion that you can walk into a boardroom (White House) and announce that your company (government) can solve all of its problems by cutting prices (taxes) without doing any studies whatsoever on the current state of the market (economy).

  • Brooks

    Just had to write about your latest column because I agree with what you say about Brooks. He is a regular on the PBS The Newshour every Friday night at 8pm. He is quite a annoying when he tells you something he doesn't agree with isn't true as if what he is saying is the gospel truth. I remember when a woman who worked with John Bolton charged that Bolton didn't like what she disclosed at a meeting while they were abroad working for the Bush Administration and he went to her hotel room and started pounding on her door and yelling his displeasure. She went on a radio interview and she said that the incident had happened. Brooks on The Newshour made a statement on the air that it had never happened and said anyone who said that was being ridiculous. He acts as if he knows everything and anybody who says differently is lying. I don't like know it alls who don't know what their talking about. At least I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and not call him a liar.

  • It could not have been Pedinska's street. It said, Wrong Way. avoid accidents.

    The town was Dayton. The street was Wrong Way. The double-P-diner was silver, and similar to a Place where Zippy would chow down on imitation meatloaf, gravy, powdered-fresh-lemonade, and order to go, a baker's dozen of Karen M's chocolate donut circle-holes. Just dunk a few in a Starbucks cup.

    It is in "Hit The Road" as in walk, canoe, or rickshaw? A entrepreneur could ride eaters to the O-hi-O diner. Then take people on tourist tours across the Meat Loaf Mason Dixon Line to dicker with rt-wing plunderers. A history discussion can be about WHY send a General Braddock to chop any trees along Route 40's National Highway westward...BYE god.

    OR- Tell about iron ore instead of oil? General Piraeus? Open ya' ears.

    You realize the National Pike's pony path heading toward Ohio in the colonial days served as a trade-route wagon haul. A delivery of pumpkins and keeper winter butternuts or acorn squash, with a good teamster (caretaker), use to return home to a village with some staple-salt, millet, et.,

    That went on for a recorded 10,000 years. O, gracias Columbus and mercy Mr. Natural Colombo!

    O, now a govt. needs boards for barges along a C&O Canal and timber, iron ore, cannon balls, railroad ties...A acre a day made ash coal for one cannon ball!

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    That reminds me: thanks Gary O. I poked you in jest too. For all we know, you may have lost a nut if you accidentally stepped on bouncy-bessie's land mind. FLOP KAPOW!

    G.O. Just don't act angry at everyone else in the world who has two ball. You one boo coo too dinky nuts. Me not. Me got two. You one. Fill sand bags. You get to take experimental pills for future Leper colonies. Here: Wear pink panties for peace.

    I like these environment discussions. Maybe I'll read the comments carefully and I hope no one still poops in the local brook. That was a no no. No mix manure with water. Hammurabi Code? Why ya think miss. gong-anonymous invented a digging spade? Well, not to say, poop in a glass pitcher...NOW. Then: O, ask the government scientist how to clean the water so we can drink it? The govt/pals say, 'a buddy of mine is into condoms and plastics. His/Her "f"ortune is made poisoning water, put in a bottle, contract with coco-pop-cooled CEO's and git a damn BANG f'er a BUCK!'

    Drink dead water with no bubbles? You'll get 'kilt' and speak real softly.

    emasculated?

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    I've no easy answer, and need to focus? Build bridges across the brooks that are miles wider, so cars can get into DC's inner beltway beltway-crowd? OR- Let's make narrow coffins with caster wheels (not poison Castor beans )and insist they are buttery operated? Later we can be buried in a mobile burial box?

    I do know I wish the rt-wing false-face conservative would conserve SOMETHING- in my opinion- They are big NOTHIN's.

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    If they can get a wood nickle out of a tree, it is hacked down.

    I wish the politico's would laze down to doze on a cozy rock. They are cheap crooks and try to sell all they steal for a "profit" but it is sheer, see thou- GREED. A Planet is plundered. Pundits lie instead of laying down on a orange pumpkin to nap, and take a moment to look up at the blue skies.

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    No cut the virgin forest in Pa's Allegheny Mountains. It was 'shock and awe' then to the pony path caravan owners who traveled from DC to Ohio, and back again, then. Now, as Mr. 'A' wondered, It seems we getting all a bit "Screwed?"

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    *What I wonder what mean what`?`*

    People or are spoiled brats- flops~?~:

    Plans for profit boom and do backfire.

    A feathered hen abandons the young.

    A plundered Planet is spoiled by men?

    Male or Female- if a bad hen needs a cock- RUN!

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    I hope I'm not beng crude. I love the way a Souther can not be blind and live in the Light to make me say, "Bless ya's pure heart, mind, and soul. Bless your Life. See the beauty by stopping the lies.