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Re: “Dim Bulb,” Aug. 4
In reference to this comment published in your paper, Rep. Paul Kanjorski is very close to being right. Dollars are printed at the Treasury on demand and any concept of fiscal responsibility has been abandoned by the Congress for at least eight years. Inflation is the inevitable result.
Citgo deal bad news for efforts to curb illegal immigration
Re: “CASA de Maryland set to accept $1.5M from Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum,” Aug. 4
CASA de Maryland has no scruples, which most us already knew. The headline should have read “From Hugo Chavez ... the Devil.”
The only bright side of this story is that it highlights the fact that the Montgomery County Council and Mr. Chavez now have something in common.
They both are using the citizens’ dollars to fund illegal activities in Montgomery County.
CASA de Maryland openly flouts the law and admits they cater to illegal aliens, and our tax dollars should not be funding any illegal activity.
To our County Council, especially the Takoma Park contingent, “illegal aliens” is the correct term, not “illegal immigrants” or “undocumented immigrants.”
Former senator has
no reason to be briefed
Re: “Daschle criticizes FBI’s handling of anthrax probe,” Aug. 3
Why should Daschle expect the FBI to brief him on the anthrax probe? The FBI isn’t briefing me.
He is no longer a senator, and granted his office was targeted with an anthrax letter, but that doesn’t mean he has any more right or reason to be briefed than any other American that was targeted or family member was killed by those letters.
He needs to get off his high horse. He even states that “from the very beginning, I’ve had real concerns about the quality of the investigation.”
OK why, he doesn’t tell us. I saw him on “Fox News Sunday” and he never explained that statement.
He will be briefed when the FBI concludes its investigation not before.
Midland
Bush judge won’t buy him love from the Democrats
Re: “Bush rewards Democrats with Virginia judgeship,” Aug. 1
Quin Hillyer’s recent commentary wondered why Bush recently nominated a Democratic lawyer to be a trial judge in Virginia, even though Democratic senators have spent years blocking Bush’s nominations of Republican lawyers to local courts.
Critics are right to worry that Bush will get nothing in return.
In 2001, Bush, attempting to appease Democrats, nominated a liberal judge, Roger Gregory, to a Virginia seat on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Democrats promptly approved Gregory’s nomination, while blocking a vote on conservative Terence Boyle to sit on the very same court.
They also delayed the confirmation of the moderate South Carolina Judge Dennis Shedd, falsely claiming he was right-wing.
But Shedd’s voting record on the 4th Circuit has been virtually identical to that of William Traxler, the only moderate judge appointed by Bill Clinton to the 4th Circuit.
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