KLRU
The Gang of Virtue Has None
RECEIVED Tue., Dec. 14, 2004
Dear Editor,
The gang of virtue has none, unless winning at all costs is a virtue. Sometimes ambition soars and sometimes it creeps and crawls. In the case of Jack Stick, Talmadge Heflin, and Eric Opiela, it slithers.
These Republican candidates do not understand why kids need health insurance, or why kids need adequately funded primary and secondary education, or why tripling college tuition places a crippling tax on the resources of middle-class families, or why Texans have the highest insurance rates in the country; if it is not about their corporate sponsors, they just don't get it. The only thing these dudes know for sure: Democracy in America these days is less about voting and more about counting. If the vote goes against you, count something else.
A majority of the voters accurately assessed the values and value of Stick, Heflin, and Opiela. In the next few weeks we will see if it matters.
The gang of virtue has none, unless winning at all costs is a virtue. Sometimes ambition soars and sometimes it creeps and crawls. In the case of Jack Stick, Talmadge Heflin, and Eric Opiela, it slithers.
These Republican candidates do not understand why kids need health insurance, or why kids need adequately funded primary and secondary education, or why tripling college tuition places a crippling tax on the resources of middle-class families, or why Texans have the highest insurance rates in the country; if it is not about their corporate sponsors, they just don't get it. The only thing these dudes know for sure: Democracy in America these days is less about voting and more about counting. If the vote goes against you, count something else.
A majority of the voters accurately assessed the values and value of Stick, Heflin, and Opiela. In the next few weeks we will see if it matters.
Steve Bradley
