Editor, The News:
Judging by the over-analyzation by the media and the outright gloating by some syndicated and local opinions published here, you’d think that Massachusetts was the only state in the union.
During this year, we have seen the party of “no” gain momentum with tea parties and charismatic former and current beauty queens and scary “we must stop socialism/Obama’s coming for your guns” tactics.
Why has this worked? Two reasons: 1. The Republican Party grabbed at anything that seemed to energize the party, no matter how radical or half-true. 2. The Democrats did nothing to counter it.
We have a leader who waits for others to lead. Even if he couldn’t get the Republicans to pull their heels out from where they had dug them in, he had the ability to speak — very eloquently and persuasively — his views on health care, the wars, the economy, and other issues that his base supported him for. Yet he did not.
He waited until Ted Kennedy’s supposed “logical” and shoo-in replacement was suddenly at risk, due to her poorly run campaign, to make a last-minute, too-little-too-late push to try and secure her victory.
Now, liberals are lamenting the loss of the “filibuster-proof” majority in the Senate. Why? They didn’t use it when they had it.
The president has spent a great deal of time reaching across the aisle to a party that is just as inflexible as before, while managing to alienate his own base.
Am I sorry I voted for President Obama? No. It beats the hell out of McCain/Palin. I just hope he has learned a few things in his first year as president.
Bonnie Humphrey
New Castle
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Editor, the News: Russ Hall’s recent letter on this page was nothing but Republican Party dogma. “The rich are hammered on taxes and half of all Americans are not.” This party governs for the wealthy and convinces their non-wealthy members this is how to run a country.
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Editor, The News: I would like to take this time to say what a good job former New Castle Police Chief Thomas Sansone and his department, the narcotics department and Lawrence County District Attorney Joshua Lamancusa have done with the drug problems in our town.
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Editor, The News: On Feb. 8, 1998, a pair of beautiful twin girls were born at Jameson Hospital. The blessed parents of Kimberlee and Autumn were Jim Kelly and Kim Snyder Kelly.
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New Castle school board has lots of strong women
Editor, The News: Several weeks ago, New Castle school board member Anna Pascarella asserted that school board president Allan Joseph must have a problem with “strong women.”
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Editor, The News: I have lunch with a group of men and we have many arguments. I, the oldest member, am directed to get answers to settle their quibbling.
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Editor, The News: On Jan. 23, I was fortunate to attend and participate in the annual “March for Life” in Washington, D.C.
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Media political coverage reflects an obvious bias
Editor, The News: Mitchel Olszak made some valid points in a recent column (Dear Reader, Monday). However, he missed the whole point and could not see the forest for the trees.
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Editor, The News: In response to Friday’s letter to the editor from Philip Conti, I am not ignorant to the politics that go on in New Castle.
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New Castle district misuses committee appointments
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