Letters to the Editor
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The Plan
In reacting to the President's poll numbers, the Republicans keep saying, "At least we've got a plan."
The Plan:
1.Let's pass a law that says that the government can't negotiate the price of drugs with vendors, and watch while new companies are formed to snap up patent free drugs and quadruple their price: especially those cancer drugs that people literally cannot live without. Yeah, there's a plan.
2. Let's privatize even more of the various government services so that private companies can, take your pick:
a. Go bankrupt, forcing the taxpayers to pay twice
for the same services.
b. Be awarded no bid contracts, but only if formerly managed by the vice-president.
c. Bankrupt their pension plans, thus allowing the taxpayers the opportunity to make up for the privatized wages.
For that matter, let's return to slavery and do away with pesky minimum wages, wages at all, and those durn pension plans. Yeah there's a plan.
3. Let's give those federal judges who piss us off so much something real to do. Too bad if the federal criminal justice system is so overburdened it can't handle its current case load, let's create 11 million felons with the stroke of a pen. Hey, maybe one of the privatized prison companies will help fund our campaign. Besides, it makes sense to take a worker who is paying sales tax, fuel tax and cigarette tax and put him/her in prison so that the taxpayers can support him/her to the tune of $35,000.00 to $45,000.00 a year. It should only take about 15-20 years to prosecute all these new felons! Yeah there's a plan.
The vehicle may be moving but there's no one behind the steering wheel.
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What we missed this week.
"Actually, it turns out that McKinney only hit the officer--its not clear how hard." And goes on to say he doesn't mean to excuse her- really? Then what? It is clear that minimizing such actions is exactly what was meant. I do so want to belive that our elected officials have the dignity and self control to not publicly batter when frustrated. These are leaders not children in preschool. Were she representing my district, this behavior would be a deal-breaker next election.
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Washinton Post "essay"
The essay that was linked to in the post is a load of rubbish. Please find some other triviality to discuss more compelling than Rep. McKinney's hairstyle.
I know! How about when Representative Cass Ballenger (R-North Carolina) called his Georgia colleague a "bitch" - meanwhile, it appears Ballenger was never censured, as required by Roberts' Rules of Order and Congressional House Rules.
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yes, dummy, it really is a big deal
when a representative of our government hits a police officer, yes it is a big deal. i don't care if it was a love tap. to think otherwise is laughable.
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On McKinney
It was sort of a 'big deal' and she handled it pretty badly. Whether it was a cell phone or her hand, she shouldn't be hitting anyone. We all learned that in the sand box when we were kids. I'm a left of center Democrat and I found it to be embarssing and amazingly childish for a person in her position. Afterall, she's a representative of the poeple, not Zsa Zsa...
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The Republic will stand
We'll see what the grand jury says. Rep. McKinney used bad judgment trying to race-card her way out, when obviously the right note was to be contrite all the way. Thank God she listened to reason. Let's see: Cheney nearly kills a guy, and it was 72 hours before he appeared (on Fox) to explain what he says happened. So I think the Rep. was a little quicker than Cheney.
Today, of course, with the multiple revelations about the president, the war, all of these things going on, they still sent their crack reporter down to Atlanta and asked people if this incident will change how they vote! And they were bemused by the fact that it wouldn't! Oh, well, those black people, you know--
Didn't see any crews down in Sugarland to ask constituents that, or investigate the raiding party of Delay supporters that busted up a Lampson rally with bullhorns and roughed up a lady of 69. Guess that's not as outrageous.
I love the routine the Republicans have: they can summon up selective indignation faster than you can say, "Katherine Harris." And then they stare at you, nostrils flaring, questioning your morality if you don't join their Crusade. "How could a woman who strikes cops...." "How could a president who enjoys oral sex..." It goes on and on, but it seems to be silent on things that matter, like massive fraud, corruption and lies.
By the way, that's one time I thought Stewart fell for the talking point. Ms. McKinney is not "batshit crazy." She never said what they said she said that got her defeated in 2002, and she's a strong enough representative that her constituents reelected her in 2004. Others in the party, and without, disagree with her stands. They therefore try to paint her as "batshit crazy." She's anything but.
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Hypocrisy is not a progressive value
Imagine that Tom Delay, Dennis Hastert, or Dana Rohrbach is asked by a US Capitol Police officer to stop and identify himself, and, in response to being "inappropriately touched" on the shoulder, hauls off and slugs the officer. Are you going to tell me that Salon would laugh this off as a "scuffle kerfuffle?" Salon is always appeals, rhetorically, for "real conservatives" to stand up to the extremists and charlatans in their midst. The same goes for the left, as well.