Liberal letters make GOP ideas look better
After reading Diane Greenholdt’s letters on Sunday and Monday, I felt a response was warranted.
She has the audacity to criticize anyone who disagrees with Sen. Dick Durbin or his liberal policies.
Does the term “freedom of speech” mean anything to you? Is it only the liberal ideas that can be discussed in a public forum?
I am a vocal critic of Democrats and their policies and will voice my disdain for Sen. Durbin anytime I want because that is my right. Liberals cannot have a reasonable discussion of politics without resorting to the vile name-calling that was in her second letter. This is a recurring theme to her letters and is starting to bore me.
Liberals are being seen for what they really stand for and it is not much. They criticize my president but have no answers on how they would solve any of our country’s problems. I thank God that FDR was nothing like the liberals we have a today because we would probably be speaking Japanese or German or both.
So in closing let me add, please keep your liberal letters coming because they make our Republican ideas look better and better to more and more people every day.
Skip Hillman, Springfield
A recent letter writer extols the virtues of the Republican party in simple contrast to the do-nothing (or should that be say-nothing) Democrats.
That’s an interesting perspective. Now allow me to flip it. Considering just several Republican policies and initiatives – namely, another round of tax cuts at the expense of programs to aid the poor; dogged determination to ignore the law of diminishing returns vis a vis our extended presence in Iraq; and (my personal favorite) insisting that oil executives not be sworn under oath preceding their testimony to Congress – it is my contention that it is the Democrats who look good in comparison.
While Democrats could stand back and out of the way as the Republicans (and don’t forget the scandals) continue to lose national support, it’s not even true that they’re doing so. Proposals are there for anyone interested enough in finding them. You just have to look a little harder, considering that the party out of power never receives as much press coverage.