Letters to the Editor

• About Landrieu

  The Democrats would be right to filibuster for all the reasons laid out in the excellent Times editorial. The bottom line is that there is nothing more important now that protecting our checks and balances - our very democracy. What about GOP nuclear threats you ask? As Paul Wellstone loved to say, you can't win a fight until you pick one.

  Now as for Landrieu's opposition to the filibuster - essentially that Congress has too much to do to bother with blocking Alito - I have two questions:

  1. What is more important than preventing the slowest-changing branch of government from falling into unbalanced ideological hands?
     
     
  2. The way things are going (especially with Alito on the Court), exactly what power does Congress have to do anything, other than stand by, idly, while the President asserts the power to do as he pleases? It's not like Landrieu's avowed concern for New Orleans will do a damn bit of good if the Executive Branch refuses to lift a finger.
  --Anonymous
  Permalink Thursday, January 26, 2006 07:38 AM