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Hope and Sanity

4.11.06 @ 12:01AM

THE TAS COMBO
Re: Jed Babbin's Fed Up With April Already and Ben Stein's Greetings From Rancho Mirage:

Jed and Ben make reading TAS pretty worthwhile. Living up here in lala land, I find them a welcome diversion from the complete craziness of the local media and events. The loon party met last weekend in Montpelier and decided to push for impeachment of Bush. That made national news for some reason and in my fair city of Burlington, "we" elected a "progressive" mayor who (as the second choice in an "instant runoff") promises to fix the fiscal mess left by the outgoing "progressive" mayor, while the state "GOP" (actually RINO central) has taken sides in a primary fight between a Jeffords RINO and a real conservative, siding with the RINO. So you can see that reading Jed Babbin's and Ben Stein's articles gives me hope that, yes, there is reason and sanity beyond the borders of Vermont. In effect, they are so reasonable and sane, they could qualify as bona fide Traditional Vermont Yankees, a group I believe should be on the federal endangered species list. Ay-yup.
-- Pete Chagnon

HONOR AMONG THIEVES
Re: The Prowler's Yes, West Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus:

Your plea for Congress to put some teeth back into their ethics committees is sure to fall on deaf ears.

Lawyers, a profession(?) to whom the majority of Congress claim membership, are the only group who require ethics committees to ensure they don't stray from what the rest of us use the Ten Commandments for.

It will be a cold day in Hades when Congress truly gets around to policing its membership. Maybe, after the Cubs win the World Series.

We have the best Congress money can buy. Anyone who doubts this only has to look at the actions of all those who have been bought.
-- R. Goodson
Vero Beach, Florida

One Lyndon Baines Johnson was pretty much broke when he won a disputed/dirty election for the Senate some years ago -- and worth how many millions when he finally retired?

Adding to the comedy, here's a question -- just how many years did it take for Austin, Texas, to get a second and third TV channel; LBJ's monopoly (the FCC feared granting another license?) might not have lasted nearly as long, if...

All these other guys are small potatoes.
-- Frost

The problem with Republicans hitting back hard is the fact they hate to get in the gutter with the Democrats. Most of them believe in fair play, even though if you get into politics fair play is not an option. Another area of concern is the MSM. They only cover corrupt Republicans so Americans that only watch that media thinks the Democrats are pure as the driven snow.
-- Elaine Kyle

YOU'RE SO CRUEL
Re: Jed Babbin's Fed Up With April Already:

Just to note that on Sunday's Meet The Press, in which John Kerry was given the first half-hour, Tim Russert failed to follow-up on the promise that Kerry made on the same show some 18 months ago, to wit: that he would within a matter of days or at most a few weeks sign the DOD form authorizing the release of all of his military records. In fact it was more than a promise, it was essentially a pledge, and it was made not once, but twice.

I didn't think Kerry would have the nerve to return to the show, because I was certain that the supposedly tough, aggressive questioner Russert would nail him. So the question is: did Russert simply cop out, or was he somehow bought off, or is he suffering from Alzheimer's?

Well, what can one expect from a news organization that hires Muslim plants to go to Southern sporting events for the purpose of hopefully provoking trouble that can be taped -- dirty looks, verbal slurs, or maybe, if their fondest wish came true, a fight, that might escalate into a melee, in which people might be injured or even killed?
-- Chuck Vail

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