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10.1.08 @ 12:01AM

WALK THE WALK
Re: Russ Ferguson's Accelerate Yourself:

Russ Ferguson needs a hobby.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

To the law student who complains that people walk too slowly, I have a piece of advice: "Stop and smell the roses."
-- Tod Frye

From your article, I assume you must not be a native of D.C.. I also assume you are a Yankee, from the boreal regions of either New York or New England. Am I correct?

Reason I make these assumptions is that I was home grown Yankee who went to college in New Orleans. I quickly learned I had to slow my New York pace or I'd soon overheat and explode. Also, the lifestyle of New Orleanians will not tolerate a New York minute.

D.C. is a Southern town. It's slow paced in many ways, not just in its walking habits. Although I've lived in a D.C. suburb for years, I hear they still walk fast on the sidewalks of Manhattan.
-- Paul Doolittle

Ah, but what if someone doesn't want to walk faster? Window shopping...scenery gawking...taking pleasure in what's going on around you as you walk. Transportation, walking or otherwise, is more than just getting from Point A to Point B, you know...
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

NERO WAS A RINO
Re: Jeremy Lott's Quibbling Over Principle, Robert Stacy McCain's Libertarian Populism, John Berlau's Doing Something? et al.:

We have all heard of some RINO Republicans. Now we Republicans have become something even worse: Nero Republicans. Two-thirds of our U.S. House Members were and are mindlessly willing to fiddle while Rome burns. All the while, Conservative writers such as Jeremy Lott, Philip Klein, Robert Stacy McCain, John Berlau, et al., along with thousands of mindless Republican phone-callers and emailers, thoughtlessly and self-righteously cajoled House Republicans to cast one of the blindest House votes ever.

Granted that Secretary Paulson was arrogant in his grudging presentation to House Republicans; granted that Speaker Pelosi gave an inane and insulting House speech. But Republican focus from the beginning was never where it should have been: Paulson was only asking for the same authority given to the Resolution Trust Corporation in 1989 which ultimately cost the taxpayers scarcely a penny. All of the Republican smokescreen about free-market mechanisms and principles was mindless grandstanding, for it was wholly beside the point. American and world markets needed reassurance. Main Street absolutely needs Wall Street if we are to preserve and enhance our massive retirement systems. Bashing Wall Street by voting blindly NO was totally irresponsible. Even if Republican writers, phone-callers and emailers refuse to be grownups, please, can't House Republicans stop playing Nero and read a little 1989 history?
-- Darrel Hansen
Alamo, Nevada

TOLD YOU SO
Re: The Prowler's Democrat Leaders Played to Lose:

What I wrote last Wednesday in response to the Prowler column of last Tuesday, "Democratic Delay Game," has turned out to be grimly prophetic. It bears repeating in light of the bailout's failure Wednesday. In the Prowler of last Tuesday, it was reported that Democrat legislative aides know a delay in passing a bailout will help the Obama campaign. We are watching the Dems' script for winning the election play out. Act One was completed with the 300+ point dive in the Dow ten days ago. With yesterday's further 700+ point plunge following the failure of the bailout, the curtain rose on Act Two. The script is being followed by the clueless independents and fence sitters of both parties, who are buying into it, blaming the Republicans hook line and sinker. Pelosi's ugly speech before the bailout vote calculated to destroy the bill was the main scene of this act and succeeded beyond even her wildest expectations. Act Two of the destruction of McCain/Palin is well underway.

Because of the Dems' quick spin machine abetted by the lapdog media, the Republicans now own the defeat and the likely recession. With consummate hubris, Barney Frank succeeds in covering his dirty trail and even capturing sympathy for (unsuccessfully) trying to fix the mess of his own creation. The Perfect Storm! Barack Hussein Obama is licking his chops while not a single prominent voice is raised by the Republicans to expose this cynical ploy.

The opportunity to reverse this tactical Dem victory is rapidly slipping through Republican fingers as they stand like a confused, demoralized football team in the 4th quarter in utter paralysis watching the opposing team run up the score as the clock runs down. They will deservedly lose this election, lacking the cojones to fight this Machiavellian plot to its death.

The remainder of my comments from last Tuesday's Reader Mail is quoted verbatim:

We are watching the October surprise unfold in slow motion. The Dems merely need to delay passage of the bailout until Nov 4th! The market will have crashed by then and Obama's election will be a certainty. Even some Republicans like Richard Shelby are playing into this suicidal scheme, clueless to what's really going on here.

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