Robert Schmetzer – 4/28/07

This page was last updated on April 28, 2007.

Wrecking the nation; Bob Schmetzer; Beaver County Times; April 28, 2007.

I critiqued two previous Schmetzer letters and it’s clear they do a good impression of broken records. A 2004 letter asserted Republicans were “driving Americans into the ground.” That letter claimed the GOP planned “to reflect their commitment to defend our homeland by reintroducing the draft in 2005” despite the fact Democrats were the only guys talking about reinstating the draft. A more recent letter resurrected the Cheney/Halliburton talking point.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“How much more abuse can Americans take?

“We should be screaming bloody murder about what is happening to our country. We have a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane.”

[RWC] You’ll note Mr. Schmetzer doesn’t provide any examples of “abuse.”

Regarding “clean up after a hurricane,” that’s up to local and state government. The federal government simply appropriates money for the locals to spend. To date, the locals haven’t tapped anywhere near what Congress approved. I suspect Mr. Schmetzer knows this, but since President Bush is a Republican and Democrats have run Louisiana and New Orleans forever, that doesn’t fit his template.

Mr. Schmetzer, who are the “corporate gangsters” and how are they “stealing us blind?” Taxes confiscate about 32% of our paychecks, pension checks, et cetera, yet Mr. Schmetzer believes unnamed “corporate gangsters” are the problem.

“Stay the course, President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have said, and people sit around and nod their heads. You have got to be kidding. This is America, not the Titanic.

“We should throw them out. House Resolution 333 calls for the impeachment of Cheney. Please take a look at it.”

[RWC] I too encourage you take a look at H.Res. 333. Sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) with no cosponsors as I write this, it’s nothing more than four+ years of anti-Bush/Cheney Democrat talking points. I didn’t waste my time reading the whole thing, but what I did read has been addressed previously.