Goodbye, Washington

Townhall.com ^ | July 8, 2011 | Linda Chavez

[Westbrook]

> Americans will boot politicians who fail to do their job
> out of office and replace them with those who will.

I’m not as sure as you about this, Linda.

There are a lot more stupid people, a lot more brainwashed people, and a lot more people getting government checks than there were 40 years ago.

[skeeter]

Steer clear of the secure border & amnesty issues and we’ll be just fine, Ms Chavez.

[freeangel]

“I leave Washington to return to my childhood roots in Colorado. I’ve lived almost two-thirds of my life in the East, but the West is in my blood “

Was she not an advocate for ILLEGALS?

[Red Badger]

And the U.S. is involved in another unpopular war, in Afghanistan, the longest in our history.

We defeated Hitler and the entire Nazi military in under 4 years and we can't annihilate these animals in ten...................

[afraidfortherepublic]

I offer the Caylee Anthony jury as proof.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Yes, now hopefully her perspective will change having to live among the little people.

[skeeter]

They don't call it the Graveyard of Empires for nothing.

Pacifiying Afghanistan is like trying to handfeed a rattlesnake.

[Red Badger]

As Genghis Khan said when asked if he was going to invade Afghanistan, “There is nothing there that I need.”..................

[thefactor]

I don't know Linda Chavez, but she seems to admire Reagan. I assume her priorities have changed since the 80's in order for her to be receiving such hate from fellow freepers.

And yes, I know immigration was not one of Reagan's strong suits, looking back.

[Alberta's Child]

After nearly 40 years in Washington, I'm leaving the nation's capital pretty much as I found it when I arrived.

I'd say that's what makes YOU part of the problem there, Linda.

I don't care about party affiliation. This country officially went off the rails when it became common for people to spend forty years inside the Beltway working non-productive jobs in government, lobbying groups, think tanks and the media.

It's nice to know that you'll still be writing commentary about happenings back in Washington, Linda. I'm sure a few folks might even take the time to read it.

[Quis Custodiet]

Good riddance to her. For the last several years she’s been supporting herself and her extended family by running “fake” Republican and Pro-life PACS that spend less than 1% of the money they raise supporting GOP politicians and even less on direct action or advertising. All the rest goes back into paying for fund-raising activities. And the company hired for this? Owned by a relative.

more here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/12/AR2007081201371.html

[ml/nj]

I'm leaving the nation's capital pretty much as I found it when I arrived.

I'm not so sure about this. Back in 1971 the back of the ten dollar bill looked like this:

To be sure, 15th Street or whatever street that is was not quite so desolate in 1971. I don't really remember Washington in 1971, but it really was a small town when I first visited back in 1954. (FTR, my perspective of a city then was NYC.) Sometime in the interim between then and now it became a megalopolis sucking in and up disproportionate amounts of the nation's population and treasure. My guess is that Chavez really doesn't remember how small the place was in 1971.

ML/NJ

[blackdog]

40 years of self worth summed up nicely in a parting foo-foo fluffed literary stab at an historical summary of all about "I", and accomplishing nothing during those 40 years.

Stop digging lady!

[geologist]

“Linda Chavez

Linda Chavez is chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity and author of Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics .”
____________________________________________________________

[Oratam]

I think the car in the engraving is a model A. I miss the folksiness of yesteryear’s currency. The present issues are down-right ugly.

[Ace of Spades]

Goodbye to you, Linda. You're an embarrassment and a liability. And as a former Marylander, I can't thank you enough for the gift of Senator Barbara Mikulski.

[drbuzzard]

I’m starting to think the solution to places like Afghanistan (or Somalia for that matter) is to bomb them back to pre-industrial times. I don’t mean level everything. I mean level everything which allows them to be anything part of the modern world. You find a power plant. Level it. You find a cell tower- level it. Airports, roads, rail, and modern form of transport or communication should be leveled. You effectively cut them off from damaging the civilized world by limiting their exposure to it.

So if, say, the Taliban comes back into power and hosts Al Queada- BFD. They will be living without power, communications, or transport. You will effectively turn the country into a jail.

If the people of such country decide that is too harsh a sentence, then they can clean up their own goddamn mess and them they can join the civilized world. Until then, if they want to act middle ages, they can live middle ages.

[iopscusa]

Yet this Jewish Reconquesta ‘Chavez’ has never once defended this country against the enormous illegal & quasi-legal immigration from 3rd world and Islamic/Communist craphole countries. Good riddance and I’ll continue to not read your crappy writing. She’s plagued DeeCee long enough and now will do the same for CO!

[Blue Ink]

Good riddance. And shut the hell up.

You got damn close to granting instant citizenship to millions of lawbreakers. (We don’t even know how many millions because you all lie about the real number.)

And every time you call Vietnam and Afghanistan “unpopular wars,” you’re denigrating the men and their mission. Vietnam was “unpopular” because we LOST. Because of lifelong politicians like you making sure we lost. We’re about to do the same thing in Afghanistan.

Colorado’s loss is D.C.’s gain.