Captain Quackenbush's
The Problem Is the Democrats
RECEIVED Tue., May 24, 2005
Dear Editor,
Louis Black just doesn't get it. The people vote Republican because the Democrats don't have any ideas ["Page Two," May 20]. They don't have any leaders. They haven't led this country on anything since LBJ escalated the Vietnam conflict in 1965 – 40 years ago.
The only thing Democrats know is they're against private Social Security accounts. They're the ones marching lockstep with their party's leadership, doing whatever they tell them to do. Now they're throwing a tantrum because the president wants Federal Appeals Court judges who don't match their own political philosophy. Did the Republicans in the minority in the 1930s and Forties filibuster FDR's nominations to the Federal Courts of Appeals because they were too liberal?
What is going on in the nation's capital right now is unprecedented. The Democrats want power. The people don't want them in power because they don't have any leaders and they don't have any ideas. They refuse to acknowledge this, and so does Black. They're losing the country, and they're convinced the only option this point forward is all-out obstruction.
I've been reading Black's interminable rants against Republicans since the end of the November election, but what's his solution? How does he propose to fix these "messes" he yammers and yammers about week after week? Better yet, what's the Democrats' solution for better governance?
Louis Black just doesn't get it. The people vote Republican because the Democrats don't have any ideas ["Page Two," May 20]. They don't have any leaders. They haven't led this country on anything since LBJ escalated the Vietnam conflict in 1965 – 40 years ago.
The only thing Democrats know is they're against private Social Security accounts. They're the ones marching lockstep with their party's leadership, doing whatever they tell them to do. Now they're throwing a tantrum because the president wants Federal Appeals Court judges who don't match their own political philosophy. Did the Republicans in the minority in the 1930s and Forties filibuster FDR's nominations to the Federal Courts of Appeals because they were too liberal?
What is going on in the nation's capital right now is unprecedented. The Democrats want power. The people don't want them in power because they don't have any leaders and they don't have any ideas. They refuse to acknowledge this, and so does Black. They're losing the country, and they're convinced the only option this point forward is all-out obstruction.
I've been reading Black's interminable rants against Republicans since the end of the November election, but what's his solution? How does he propose to fix these "messes" he yammers and yammers about week after week? Better yet, what's the Democrats' solution for better governance?
Barry Levitch
