Margaret Carlson - Washington's Do-Nothing Patriots (and flag wavers)

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-carlson30jun30,0,3277127.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

Washington's Do-Nothing Patriots
They save the flag; everything else is on a back burner.

Margaret Carlson

June 30, 2005

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If lawmakers wanted to do something really patriotic this Fourth, they might do their jobs. How about asking hard questions about the war, and beefing up the armor on those Humvees that keep getting blown apart? If Old Glory is so important, why have so few House members traveled to Dover to see it serving the high purpose of draping the coffins of the more than 1,700 soldiers who died for it?

They sure won't run into the ever-optimistic president there. His response to the fresh wave of carnage in Iraq was to take to the airwaves Tuesday night in a PR effort designed, White House senior advisor Dan Bartlett said, to "educate the American people" about "our strategy for victory." How about educating the president?

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Every member who's expended an ounce of energy on this amendment should be ashamed. If they don't have guts on Iraq, how about restoring the House Ethics Committee, which should call before it every member lobbyist Jack Abramoff ever put up in a four-star hotel?

How about balancing the budget, or reforming healthcare so patients could have a real doctor in attendance rather than Bill "Video Doc" Frist making diagnoses from the Senate floor?

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[wallwriter]

1. Damn right

And regarding Sherwood having sex with an intern...it's impeachable, unless you decide to slap her around a bit, in which case it's OK.

[realFedUp]

2. this was a good one from Ms. Carlson

Yeah, some offenses are criminal, some just impeachable.
It depends on if you are a Republican or Dem.

[indepat]

3. Right Margaret: the Repugs will do everything you suggest

[freesqueeze]

4. Let's go to the scoreboard.

GOP has failed on all counts. They took over Texas about the same time they took DC and we have gone to hell in a hand basket ever since.

In our state, they ran on a promise to reduce homeowners insurance and to revamp school financing. Both have got more expensive for the average Texan. They have done nothing on either count, but they did manage to serve DeLay's desires to redraw districts so that we can send more of these failures to DC.

If it weren't so tragic, it would be funny.