What reality are you in?

I do not normally "fisk" letters in the Star Tribune. I leave that to more talented bloggers than I. However, since no one has yet touched this gem of a letter I just had to say something. Wrap the duct tape around your head tight.....the "logic" of this letter will blow your mind!

DISAPPOINTED IN AMY

Votes like a Republican

Sen. Amy Klobuchar should just follow Sen. Norm Coleman's example and
switch from the DFL to the Republicans. Time and again she capitulates to the
Bush political line. And then she regurgitates right-wing propaganda points to
try to justify her betrayal of the Minnesota voters who sent her to Congress to
defend the Constitution, not to traduce it.

Klobuchar's craven performance reminds me of what Minnesota Rep. C.A. Lindbergh said 90 years ago: "Of all the cowards, no other is so cowardly as the average
politician."


OLIVER S, ST. PAUL

OK - did you get your mind wrapped around this.....Amy Klobuchar....our Amy votes "like a Republilcan"?

Now I don't know what alternate reality Mr. S lives in, but here in the real world Amy's voting record sure doesn't look "Republican" to me.

Let's start with her most recent vote. Senator Amy voted FOR the Feingold Amendment to start a phased redeployment of our troops out of Iraq. She was one of twenty eight Senators (all but 1 were Democrats and the 1 was Independent/Socialist Bernie Sanders from Vermont) to vote to pull our troops out of Iraq. Senator Coleman.....voted against withdrawal. Strike one Oliver.

Senator Amy voted against a bill (co-authored by Senator Coleman) that would prohibit contributions to organizations that promote abortion as a method of birth control. Senator Coleman (of course) voted for his own bill. Strike two Ollie!

Senator Amy voted for a bill that would give the rights of Habeus Corpus (rights that are guaranteed in the Constitution to American citizens) to foreign nationals who have plotted to commit terror acts against US citizens and interests. Senator Coleman....voted against it. Strike three Ollie.

Senator Amy voted to give legal immigrant status to gang members, terrorists and drug runners....Senator Coleman did not. Senator Amy voted for every troop withdrawal amendment...Senator Coleman split his. Senator Amy voted FOR federally funded human embryonic stem cell research and Senator Coleman did not. There were strikes four, five and six! There is a whole lot more out there, but I figured you got the picture by now.

If capitulating "to the Bush political line" were all that it took to switch political parties, I don't think Senator Klobuchar would meet the entry requirements. Then again, the same could almost be said about Senator Coleman. Step away from the ledge, Oliver. It's really not all that bad.