Anger has an outlet—the polls next year

There are some people who are in a class of their own. Responding to them breaks all rules and closes the comments.

What college are you a professor at? What recognition do you have that is known world wide?
Whether someone knows that person or not, it is a fool who does not even listen to what someone has to say.
So you have just joined a class of fools.

Someone asks me to live like the poor. How do you know I didn’t?
Did you?
Do you?

Just because I am where I am today, does not mean I haven’t been where some of these people asking for help are at.

You did give an opinion that all politicans are liars.
What is a liar?
Someone who does not agree with you?
Or What?

first of all there is no “P” in sychophants. And if anyone thinks that making comments in this newspaper about self centered people, will put me in good standing or win favors from Tom, Jim, Mark then that person is one ? individual.
My political remarks are solely from the point of view that I believe in the Democrat’s platform of taking care of the under privileged and the working class population as a whole. And if that means taking 50 percent of taxes from the wealthy so be it. Maybe even 60 percent from the self centered, self promoting who post here against taxes and everything to help others lives better.

I do not, nor ever will vote for a Republican. As viewed in the past votes on the health care bill, they are a bunch of sick politicans. As well as a group of outright liars.

Finally a tax to pay for the wars. Now the no tax war mongering Republican’s will be out in full force. They would rather see other peoples sons and daughters fighting, then them having to spend a dime towards these wars. Now there will be demonstrations in the streets by Republican’s to end the wars.
A tax to finance the wars may finally bring the people together to end the wars.

Well Gordie,

It is really odd, I must say, for you, of all posters, to excoriate anyone for “exposing themselves as a campaigner against one individual in favor of another. Solely pointing out there own political motive.“ Ye who routinely posts DNC talking points ad nauseum, and posts fabricated letters of glowing partisan support for Tom Periello.

(Perhaps the most comical self-exposure of “people who follow others around by the coattail, who believe everything they hear and read. Those with no thoughts of their own.“ was that cute 180 degree piroutte you made before and after the recent election, vis a vis Creigh Deeds, that ‘coincidentally’ tracked the pro then con(descending) remarks of the Obama Nation toward Deeds in order to spin the results in Virginia as a local failure—but I digress).

Now, I will give credit where credit is due. Anybody with half a brain and an ounce of integrity knows that providng for the health and welfare of the American people is NOT of and by itself “unconstitutional”, and that is a matter of settled law. Some may not like that fact, but it has been argued to the Supreme Court and survived countless challenges before so-called conservative AND liberal courts, and therefore is a bogus statement that falls under the category of ‘red meat’ for uber-conservatives and libertarians who fancy strict constructionism. It si the stuff better left for constitution wonks and law students to debate the merits of, but as a matter of public policy, it is a moot point. Not to say that it isn’t an argument of Palin-esque ‘stature’, as it were.

Much as it is on par with touting a bill that is not law, nor in its current form will not be, a great accomplishment. As real as saying that a coward (fill in the blanks) captive his party is courageous.

To the letter writer: the six prospective GOP hopefuls are NOT all capable. I don’t know five of them very well at all, and don’t feel qualified to comment one way or the other. I do know Ken Boyd. He, in my opinion, isn’t fit to serve coffee, let alone serve as Albemarle Supervisor, and the thought that he could be nominated, let alone serve in Congress, is both laughable, and disturbing. With a patient as sick as the current version of Congress is, the cure is definately not to complicate matters with the political equivalent of an STD. we don’t need another parasite.

Periello may indeed yet emerge as the lesser of two evils. Capable, yet definately wobbly. Sans Pelosi, he might yet make a credible Congressman. I am making allowances for him 1) being a freshman, 2) being a sacrificial lamb, 3) having to negotiate a political minefield, where ruthless mob-style retribution is the norm, 4) being to weak, or naive, to just say ‘no’ to the usual influences of special interests (corporations, trial lawyers, unions, fringe constituencies). Of these, the last is the most troubling—though par for the congressinal course—as it is a nearly untretable and irreversible affliction.

Might we expect a viable challenger from the moderates with the Democcratic Party? No. Periello has been cast as the mythical ‘blue dog’. Well, either the ‘blue dog’ has learned new tricks, or it has been transformed (as evidenced by recent votes in the House) into a yellow ‘blue dog’ (a ‘green dog’?), because there is nothing at all fiscally conservative about the Obama Devolution and Reconstitition of America foisted upon us, not by liberals, but by outright radicals.

It will take, I predict, not ‘yet another’ poll reversal in the next election, but the emergence of a truly independent group of representatives, beholding to none—which if he ever was, is NOT Periello. It will take someone with the courage of their convictions—that is not temporal, or piecemeal, or vaporous—someone who is neither supported by psychophants like Gordie, nor one themselves.

We can only hope.

Obviously, Gordie isn’t a Constitutional scholar.  Just as obvious, Congress doesn’t care about the Constitution.  Here’s a good analysis of the Constitutional question:  http://www.examiner.com/x-27580-St-Louis-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Forget-the-Constitution-says-Congress