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Won the Battle, Lost the War
Pols never fail to deliver comedy. The definition of coward. It’s electric! Plus more.
BUT THE KIDS!
Re: W. James Antle, III’s The Battle of Burris:
Thank you for Mr. Antle’s “The Battle of Burris.” I find the whole fiasco most amusing.
Governor Blagojevich’s defiant appointment of Burris and Burris’s embarrassing ambition are American politics at its worst. They are the inevitable result of racial politics, playing to the media, and corruption. (Does anybody think that Senate seats have not been sold to the highest bidder time and again? Blagojevich’s greed is not unusual; what is unusual is the height of his arrogance and stupidity, always a deadly combination.)
Each day I eagerly scan the news for more stories of the inane and pathetic doings of our elected and appointed leaders; rarely am I disappointed. The system is falling apart (Blago, Spitzer, the Clintons, the Prophet…) and I, in my mid-sixties, am enjoying every minute of it
It is to laugh.
But then I think of my five grandchildren.
It is to weep.
— James F. Csank
Seven Hills, Ohio
TO A ‘T’
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s Peter Pettigrew Politics
From the Land of Powell:
Jeffrey Lord’s exposition on the chief of staff of the former Secretary of State prompt me to go over to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary for the following definition:
“Main Entry: cow·ard Pronunciation: \ˈkau̇(-ə)rd\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French cuard, from cue, coe tail, from Latin cauda Date: 13th century: one who shows disgraceful fear or timidity.”
Fitting of all three (the former CoS to the Secretary, the former
Secretary, and the former Press Secretary) to differing extents,
I think.
— Reid Bogie
Waterbury, Connecticut
“Oral history”? Mr. Pettigrew is confusing the Bush II
administration not with the incoming Saint Obama’s gang, but with
The Boy President’s.
— Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York
IF IT MOVES, TAX IT
Re: Eric Peters’s Electric Cars and Economics
101:
I remember the EV-1 well. I was selected to test drive one for a week. I was to use it as my personal car, for work errands, etc. There was one small problem. You see I lived in Florida at that time and had a commute of about 35 miles each way to my office. Because of the heat and humidity it was necessary to use the a/c. That limited the car’s range to about 35 miles. That meant I couldn’t use the car for work because I frequently had to drive to appointments, meetings and civic events.
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ruth| 1.7.09 @ 6:32AM
There really was no other viable choice. Arnold was just the lesser of two evils.
Don Werenko| 1.7.09 @ 9:08AM
RE: Molyneaux's comments in his letter about liberals having taken over NC. This was very predictable in the mid to late 1990's when many, many people moved to the state from NY and NJ and the whole northeast, where having wrecked their respective states with liberalism, they started on the same downward path in NC. I am firmly convinced that most liberals will never learn. We must begin in our school system starting at grade one if our country is to survive. I pray our downward spiral is not irreversable.
Daddio| 1.7.09 @ 9:13AM
All great nations come to an end. Usually done in from within rather than without. I see no reason to doubt we will end any differently.
Appleby| 1.7.09 @ 9:38AM
We have available here in Toronto a very nice, cheap (relatively), easy to park and no-licence-required electric scooter similar to the Vespa, which would be ideal to scoot around our end of Toronto where virtually everybody walks to where we want to go.
The difficulty is this: almost everyone in our neighbourhood lives in a high-rise. There is nowhere to plug these scooters in.
A second difficulty which is at present preventing the electric car from being sold here in our end of Kanukistan is that our Greenie Socialist Government has promised to close down all coal-fired plants next year, which means we wouldn't even have enough power to keep the lights on, much less run 300,000 plug-in cars and 1,000,000 plug-in scooters.
Tom Pedersen| 1.7.09 @ 12:09PM
As much as I believe Burris is a bad appointment, I do think that his is a legal appointment and that he should be sworn in and take the office. Too many of us make the emotional error of mixing up right and wrong with legal and illegal. This is true in polics generally...politics is often immoral, dirty and dispicable. Because these are law makers, they are careful to protect their sleeze from being illegal. Should we want to change that, we will have to get a set of steel ones and get to work...or pass a constitutional amendment to limit terms of office. After all, a new politician cannot steal as efficiently as an experienced one.
Alan Brooks| 1.7.09 @ 7:17PM
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