[Anyone] Open your mail, Mr. Prez

[Mike in Taos]

I absolutely love it when a sanctimonious, leftist, prissy, bedwetting, phony, narcissistic, smarmy, holier-than-thou, last-picked-for-kickball, gutless, weasel punk lefty like Bill Nemetz writes his bird cage lining column and tommy buys into it.

> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:20 +0000
> From: totem at laplaza.org
> To: anyone at laplaza.org
> Subject: [Anyone] Open your mail, Mr. Prez
>
>
> This column is by Bill Nemetz, one of Maine's finest newspaper columnists. He writes for the
> Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram. From this past Sunday's edition:
>
> COLUMN Mr. President, Please open your mail
>
> By BILL NEMITZ July 20, 2008
>
> Dear Mr. President,
>
> You might recall that last year around this time, I wrote you a letter suggesting that you
> save yourself a pile of grief and simply call it quits.
>
> Well, you're still here. And despite polls showing that fewer than one in five Americans now
> think you've got the country headed in the right direction, it appears you're going to play
> out this presidency until its bitter (no, make that merciful) end.
>
> So I have another suggestion. As long as you're still the leader of the free world and all,
> you might want to consider at least answering your mail.
>
> I'm talking about the letter you received early last week from Maine's two Republican
> senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, along with 10 of their colleagues from both
> parties.
>
> In it, they asked that you join in a bipartisan "energy summit" to consider long- and
> short-term strategies for dealing with the nation's ever-expanding energy crisis.
>
> (That's right, the energy crisis. I know you're aware of it because just last week, when
> reminded how in February you said you hadn't heard that gas was headed over $4 per gallon,
> you replied, "I've heard it now." Nice save, sir.)
>
> Anyway, the letter from Snowe et al (no sir, that's not a typo -- it's Latin) suggests a
> sit-down involving "both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue" to talk about this whole energy mess.
>
> "Americans are understandably concerned about the rising costs of commuting to work, heating
> their homes and buying groceries," the senators wrote. "Our national reliance on foreign oil
> continues to undermine and threaten American security and provide billions for America's
> enemies."
>
> Now Mr. President, I thought any talk about helping our enemies would get your immediate and
> undivided attention. But it appears I was wrong.
>
> I called Kurt Bardella, Sen. Snowe's spokesman, Wednesday to see if you'd responded to the
> letter.
>
> "Not yet," Bardella told me.
>
> I called again Friday.
>
> "Not yet," he said again.
>
> Yes sir, I know that last week, you talked about what appears to be your energy plan: Lift
> the ban on offshore drilling, which won't lower gas prices anytime soon but will provide the
> reeling energy markets with a "psychological" boost.
>
> And I know that last month, when the idea of a bipartisan energy summit was first floated in
> Congress, your spokesman Tony Fratto said flatly, "A summit isn't the answer."
>
> Well, maybe it is, Mr. President, and maybe it isn't. But with people here in Maine wondering
> how they're going to stay warm this winter (there's even talk up north of folks sharing
> households), you can't blame the good senators for at least wanting to sit down and talk
> about potential solutions.
>
> So please, go ahead and answer that letter. You'd restore a lot of faith in what's left of
> our executive branch if you looked beyond what's good for the oil companies and, just this
> once, provided the kind of leadership this country so desperately needs right now.
>
> No can do?
>
> Fine. Then at least write Sen. Snowe and her colleagues back to say you got their letter but
> couldn't open it. Explain how reading anything from here on in would conflict with how you
> plan to spend your final six months in office.
>
> With your eyes closed.
>
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