Letters to the Editor
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Head Scratcher
I have no idea why any Republican in Congress would be interested in a plan being pushed by a radioactive lame duck President who is on his way to setting the record for most unpopular President ever which their core supporters are so deadset against they are screaming from the rooftops that they have been totally been betrayed but Bush and the Republican party. Anyone care to try and explain?
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Look on the bright side...
At least no one had an "epiphany". In that group, an epiphany would probably lead to bombing Iran after the meeting.
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Reply to defield's "Head Scratcher"
Most Republican politicians now in Congress climbed aboard the Neocon Express Train and bought a ticket to ride from Conductor Bush a few years ago. And what a smooth and heady ride it was those years after 9/11! Democratic opposition was effectively flattened and Engineer Cheney and Fireman Rove were pouring on the coal, provided courtesy of the ruling financial establishment, the infamous transnational corporate globalist elite! They were all enjoying the ride, feting the heroic military, scolding deviant pacifists, environmentalists, political realists, gays and other malcontents, and generally benefiting from incredible largesse thanks to their corporate sponsors.
Their constituents back home were so glad that the Conductor was receiving direct orders from God that it took them a while to notice that the train had taken several wrong switches and the track was roughening. A few saw up ahead a yawning abyss were the track disappeared at the end of a washed out bridge. The Conductor and Engineer ordered full steam ahead! Now many wanted to get off the train and avert disaster, but were so tied to their corporate sponsors that only a few had the courage to listen to their trackside constituents and risk injury by jumping from the train.
Cheney, Rove, and Bush counseled to stay the course and increase speed to jump the gulf. Torn two ways, on the one hand by loyalty and indebtedness to the corporate globalists who slopped their feeding trough, and on the other hand pulled by reason, true patriotism, and the screams and shouts of their constituents, the once monolithic and distainful Republican Party began to fragment.
As things now stand, those who stay aboard the Neocon Express will, if they succeed in defying probability by accomplishing Bush's mission on immigration, have to remain on board indefinitely lest they risk being figuratively torn apart by their constituents. However, they may rest assured of some reward by their masters, the ones Conductor Bush refers to as "my base".
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Mitch McConnell
is an intellectual cretin. How in God's name did he ever rise to power? I was watching cal span the other day to have a look-see at the debate on immigration and for the life of me I can't understand how most of these guys ever got elected. There is nothing, I mean, nothing going on in their brains.
I hail from a small rural area in central NY and a guy I went to high school with went into politics and has now become a state senator. He was one of the least intellectual curious guys in the class, but had great hair and a painted-on smile. But anyone could see that he had nothing to add to the conversation. Oh, I guess I just answered my own question...
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make that,
intellectually curious guy. Mi dispiace tutti.