Specter should switch again and run as independent
Re: “Party-switching Specter sunk by Pa. Democrats,” May 20
Sen. Arlen Specter’s loss in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary should not deter him from running for the Senate as an independent in this fall’s general election.
If he is challenged, he can use the same rationale for his infamous vote (based on Scottish law) in President Clinton’s impeachment trial: “not proven.” He can claim that a loss in the Democratic primary does not prove that all the citizens of Pennsylvania want him fired.
David Sivillo
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Protecting border is a basic function of government
Re: “Boycott losses will help Arizona overturn a bad law,” from readers, May 14
Kati Charin argues that the Arizona immigration law somehow does not “respect the importance of the Hispanic community.” Sorry, but controlling the border does not disrespect anybody and is not a racial insult; it is a basic function of government.
Personally, I’d like to see more respect for the “United States community,” especially for its laws and its borders.
Dexterd Scott
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Make progressives live with uninvited ‘guests’
Re: Top 10 dumbest things said about the Arizona immigration law,” May 1
Here’s a proposal for the liberal progressives who rage against Arizona’s immigration law as a violation of illegal immigrants’ civil rights. While they are at work, move a bunch of uninvited “guests” into their homes. Let them return to find these “guests” sleeping in their beds and running up their utility bills.
Sure, the “guests” may offer to do some chores, but it their discretion to stay as long as they wish, and the homeowners dare not — indeed have no right! — to speak one word of dissent or insist they move out, even if one of them happens to be a drug dealer or a criminal.
Outrageous, you say? In effect, this is what illegal immigrants do when they cross the border. They force themselves into our “house,” stay as long as they please, use our stuff, and then send us the bill. Funny how being the direct recipient (or victim) of your own ideology can clear things up for you.
Angela McIntosh
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