July 7, 2010 in Opinion, Letters

Another voice from the right

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The letter from Phyllis Hyatt (June 29) is nothing more than a right-wing commercial. Her language, using the president’s middle name/the teleprompter diatribe and implication that he has no brains, sounds like a talking point sheet from Rush, Glenn or Fox News.

Yes, Phyllis, he is the chosen one, chosen by a majority of the voters in 2008, and it must really stick in your craw that he was elected, because your letter just drips of hatred. I don’t know if he should have been playing golf anymore than if it was right for President Bush to stay on vacation during Katrina. Presidents are busy people and deserve a little down time.

Whatever happened to the party out of power being the loyal opposition? Congress used to be people with different views and ideas who had in common the overall good of the country.

Now it seems that the right wing thinks that no one can govern but them. I hope you realize how dangerous that mindset can be. Dictators think no one can be in charge but themselves.

Jim Boggs

Spokane

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  Arch_Druid on July 07 at 9:38 a.m.

  I actually have to agree with the author as to the particulars. My one quibble is the loose use (or misuse) of “right wing.” Without question Phyllis Hyatt’s letter was dripping with hatred. Without question Ms Hyatt was blatantly hypocritical in the letter she wrote.
  What was also blatantly clear was as Jim Boggs said this morning is the clear danger in believing that only one party is fit to govern, the one that Hyatt belongs to obviously. The next step along the slippery slope of dictatorship. But how is Ms. Hyatt’s thinking “right wing?”

  In a democracy, the last thing a right winger would want is to extol anything that would smack of dictatorship. Esp. where “one party rule” is concerned. So, as long as Ms Hyatt would be “reasonably afraid” of a gvt top loaded with Dems, then the rest of us should be reasonably afraid of a gvt top loaded with RADICALS that think much as she does. It takes PARTIES to make a democracy. Unfortunately, the radicals that have usurped the GOP don’t respect that.