Reader Comments
Issue 137 - August 5, 2009

Editor: Me-thinks you are right. Your last paragraph in "Infecting the Republicans” just devastates me – saying that the Republicans will win in the 2010 Congressional elections but that Barack Obama will then turn right to help himself in the 2012 presidential election. I'm adrift now for a year and a half. But maybe, just maybe, Americans will wake up before 2012. Robert Matthews

Editor: Thank you for the well informed, thoughtful and well written article, "Infecting the Republicans". You are just a little late though, since the mainstream media has been so pathetic and disappointing for years already. I also noted that your email to me was dignified by not tricking my clicks. You could advertise this fact by remarking on it, or possibly by providing colored click icons of both informing and private type for each article. I look forward to reading the remaining articles. Jim Dahlquist, Palatine, IL.

Editor: Regarding "Infecting the Republicans", it is not just health care. Stop the Obama takeover of the auto, banking and the other businesses. We don't want animal rights, humans without rights, elderly better off dead, like--Cass Sunstein, one-Worlders and UN dictators telling us how to live in the USA. We don't want to be" Nudged" by crazy Cass Sunstein’s to die early to save money. These people around Obama need adult supervision. The USA needs a leader not the kind of nutcases surrounding Obama. Regards, Dave James

Editor: Regarding "Infecting the Republicans,” if this has not already been done - Start a massive telephone crusade to stop Obamacare. M A Bunel

Editor: Regarding "Infecting the Republicans,” the Republicans have allowed themselves to become demonized by imitating the Democrats, and NOBODY on the Hill is listening to the People. We the People put them all there, and We the People can vote them OUT! We'd better start working for the benefit of the COUNTRY and not the two parties who got us where we are today! Ben Franklin said, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention that we have given them a Republic “if we can keep it!" It takes work to keep these Bozos in line, and We the People are the ones who need to be watching what they DO and not what they SAY - from the President on down! Respectfully submitted, Bob Maguire

Editor: Regarding "Infecting the Republicans,” I have started two businesses in the last 30 years. One was a bank and one was an insurance agency to complement the banking side with a wide range of options. I left that firm after 19 years and started my own from-scratch small insurance agency. I was very successful in both but when I looked at the direction of the government and its seeming endless appetite to take in more tax dollars from my small business, I decided to sell my newest business after 10 years and take the capital gains hit sooner than later. I am happy I made the move of selling my business on March 1, 2007, particularly as I see more of the government raping of small business. Obama is driving us closer and closer to socialism. The ever smiling Nancy Pelosi, more like gloating, (you know, the old attitude of "we won, you loss so suck it up") sickens me and I fear for our way of life in this once great nation. Shame on Obama and all of Congress for taking us down this road to potential national bankruptcy. Dewey Rotruck

Editor: I must admit I don't understand your article titled "Infecting the Republicans." The Republicans will not be "irrelevant" if they will analyze immediately every ridiculous proposal the Dems come up with and call 13 press conferences and call 15 columnists. It seems to me the Republicans are anxious to please instead of standing on Republican conservative principle. Acting like Democrats will never will elections. "Acting like Democrats" includes going with the flow, ignoring the Republican Platform, having extramarital affairs, etc. Chris Sale

Editor: Regarding "Infecting the Republicans", both parties are progressive. One wants change now, the other is willing to wait for change. Neither can be trusted. Greg Williams

Editor: Regarding "Infecting the Republicans", far too few have pointed out that the end result of government meddling in the private medical system will yield one very important result...fewer providers, at least fewer domestically born and educated. Where is the incentive to go into the medical profession and all the specialties when the government is sitting on the desk to observe the decisions, medicines, patient interaction and treatment plans? There is none. The medical costs in America, as Newt Gingrich put it, are due to the very best system in the world, with the best diagnostic technology available. The failure of the bureaucrats to enact legislation to limit malpractice lawsuits is the problem, with the number of trial lawyers we have in Congress, and their connections to other trial lawyers, it's absolutely no wonder why this inbred community refuses to act with common sense to control costs. The liberals have only one option: grind the ever-escalating costs out of the wallets of American taxpayers. What they will achieve is to grind this Republic into a third-rate economy, and dream up some way to say it was Bush's fault. Jim in Atlanta

Editor: Regarding "Infecting the Republicans,” Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina has correctly identified Obamacare as a $1.6 trillion fairy tale (with a bad ending) that would replace the best heath care system in the world with inferior HMO rationing coverage for most Americans. DeMint is right on the money in declaring that, if defeated, Obamacare may be a "Waterloo" moment that will stop Obama from inflicting even further harm with foolish and costly actions involving climate change and amnesty for invading criminals from Mexico. Bravo to Senator Jim DeMint for having the courage to tell it like it is! John W. Lillpop

Editor: I would not hold my breath on President Obama turning right as suggested by “Infecting the Republicans” and Alex Castellanos’ “Obama Will Turn Right.” I think that he is driven by more than reckless spending. His ideology drives him and it covers everything from his idea that the very wealthy must share more with the less fortunate and that means tax, tax, tax. His idea is that America has done the world wrong and we should be ashamed and that means apologizing for our evil deeds. We cannot deny his association with radicals that also think that we're evil doers. Now we have this mother of all spending programs with the Obama Health Care when we have not even figured out how we're going to pay for the billions spent on the economic stimulus which has done very little to stimulate the economy. The Russians even suggested that he veer away from socialism since they tried it and it did not work. His statement that America is not a Christian nation and so on. Today, I hear in the news that he, President Obama, has no idea what some of the key provisions are all about. We're talking about trillions of dollars here and he and probably most of his colleagues have not even read the bill. Rearranging the chairs on the "Titanic"? I think more than that - we know that it sank. God help us all. Sincerely yours, Gil Payne, Laguna Niguel, Ca

Editor: Alex Castellanos’ “Obama Will Turn Right” is excellent and fascinating analysis. The only part I don't "get" (or agree with) is about Hillary and Bill Clinton. David Franke

Editor: Alex Castellanos is correct in his “Obama Will Turn Right” that there will be Democrat carnage in 2010. But for the country’s sake you better hope Obama does not turn right. It’s better for the country. Steven Didovich

Editor: Even if Alex Castellanos is correct that “Obama Will Turn Right”, Obama will not get through a re-election if anyone has a brain or lick of common sense. Colleen Cota

Editor: Regarding John Goodman’s “Squeezing Doctors and Patients,” the one thing that will defeat Obama's health care plan is the wrath of the senior citizens. I am a 78 year old senior who is concerned about only one aspect of his suspect program and that is RATIONING. This scares the hell out of me. Tell me I can't get a knee or hip replacement or a heart valve replaced or by-pass surgery because I am "over the hill" and too old, and you will indeed incur my wrath. The administration pooh-poohs any discussion of rationing but it will happen. Just look at England and Canada. Somebody needs to get the word out to seniors and it sure won't be the super liberal AARP. MG

Editor: Thanks for Doug Edleman’s excellent article “Tea Party Activism.” This is a great piece that I am sending to my e-mail list for certain. I have been e-mailing, trying to motivate people to sit up and take notice, become involved, to spread the word and concern to family and friends. The e-mails ask them to call their elected officers, any and all of them to speak of different topics, and supply a web site for finding their reps, their e-mails, phone numbers, addresses, fax numbers. Each time I write, I supply the website and for my state include the names and numbers. It is not much, but it is a good feeling that there now are four other citizens doing what I am doing. We have to keep trying and be cheerleaders. Thank you very much. We need the tools and information to work with and to keep it going. Susan Gaskill

Editor: Keep the fantastic articles regarding other countries coming – such as the one by Dennis Avery, “Australian Climate Skepticism.” My skeptical friends won't read many of the articles I send them about the U.S. BUT when another country is questioning the man-made Global Warming idea they tend to take notice - it isn't just some crazy American idea I made up then. Thanks, C. Vander Laan, Kennett Square, PA

Editor: Regarding Dennis Prager’s “ Honduras was Right”, please do help the Honduran people. The International Left is ferociously attacking the legal Honduran decision to get rid of Dictator-to-Be Manuel Zelaya. The disinformation campaign is very strong. Please address the issue further. Yours truly, Loen de Chavarri