About your July 3 editorial titled "More to Genuine Patriotism than waving Old Glory": You wrap your extreme liberal partisanship in patriotism and accuse anyone with interests other than yours of treason.
You embrace the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as real patriots, when these are the sons and daughters of the soldiers liberals spat upon coming home from Vietnam.
You accuse any opposition to Obama's legislation as self-serving partisan obstructionism, but, "pulling together as a nation speaks of national spirit and pride" as long as we pull together under the mantle of socialism and unfettered spending that is the Obama administration.
Where were you for the last eight years? Did you then think that we should pull together as a nation? No, you spent countless hours and days investigating every piece of legislation that came near George W. Bush's desk, looking for anything to make that administration look bad, at times fabricating stories for that purpose. Driving a wedge between America with your MSM attack machine.
Now, Congress passes and Obama signs a stimulus bill that costs Americans $800 billion and you won't even report that no one in Congress or the president himself even read the entire bill before it became law! "There's no time," Obama says. "If we don't pass the stimulus package immediately, unemployment could shoot up to 8.7 percent."
It's almost 10 percent.
You're in favor of the Cap and Trade Bill just passed by the House simply because Obama wants it?
It would be outrageous if Congress passed legislation to address an alleged problem without first verifying there is a problem and then assessing the extent of it, but it's inexcusable that they would pass a measure that could have crippling effects on our economy and American taxpayers without even reading the bill.
Your editorial history proves you have no intention of closing ranks in a bipartisan way.
Steven Mantey
Hailey
