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12.14.07 @ 12:01AM

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TORTURED DEMOCRAT ARGUMENTS
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Mendacious Indignados:

So we're seeing another instance of Democrats being for something before they were against the same thing. Kerry, Clinton, Reid, Pelosi; like the energizer bunny, they keep going and going and going. These folks really are like sheets to the wind, though the bedwetting stains should be embarrassing.
-- Karl F. Auerbach
Eden, Utah

Tyrrell lauds Clarence Thomas for writing the book of the year, even conceding its superiority over his own work.

If Justice Thomas has written something better than The Clinton Crack-Up, it must be attributable to subject matter.

Could Justice Thomas's skill-level give us "mendacious indignados" as a description of his tormentors?

Recall that one of those present-day indignados has called Justice Thomas an "embarrassment" whose opinions are "poorly written," like an "eighth-grade dissertation." (Thank God for Catholic schools.) Could such an ignoramus write the book of the year? To find out, we'll have to wait for Harry Reid's memoirs.

Perhaps his publisher will title it "The Congressional Indignado," but that misses something. The diminutive, indignito, would be more fitting. The feminine, indignita, better still. But language fails us, as I don't think these are in our lexicon.

Regardless, I look forward to My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir, and I thank you for The Clinton Crack-Up.

Merry Christmas, RET, Justice Thomas, and all!
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh

Y'know, I found one aspect of the Democrat reaction to the accounts of destroyed tapes amusing. It was stated that the tapes were destroyed to protect clandestine agents. Democrats were more enamored of protecting these kind of agents when they were Valerie Plame…I guess the agents in these tapes aren't capable of doing harm to the Republicans.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

It is truly sad that national security issues regarding terrorists are public fodder, but the national security issues surrounding Sandy Berger's theft and destruction of classified documents are no more than a page 6 afterthought. Where ARE we going as a country?
-- Greg Mercurio
Vacaville California

I agree that the 9/11 plotters should not have been "waterboarded." The CIA should have used blowtorches. And fed the remains to hogs.

The interrogation tapes should not have been destroyed. We should have shown the world how Mr. Big Bad Terrorist lasted all of thirty seconds when somebody got tough with him. Let's see 'em pose as fearless warriors for Allah after that makes the rounds.

As to the high dudgeon of the usual Congressional suspects: so what? They have spent the last eight years screaming their empty heads off at everything the President said or didn't say, did or didn't do. If Dubya walked on water, they'd swear he only did it to hurt the fish, and by now his Administration is getting a de facto free pass (even when it isn't deserved) from the public's sheer fatigue at a Democratic shtick that is nothing more than one long tantrum. Outrage on demand has become, quite simply, a bore.
-- Martin Owens
Sacramento, California

The CIA needs to have their PR man issue a statement saying that they practice only 100% organic andsustainable torture. More than that, they even they buy carbon credits to offset any footprints left on the foreheads of their victims. If the CIA did this, then Congress (and by extension Hollywood and the Episcopal Church) would have nothing to complain about, now would they?

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