AP must think voters are not very smart
Re: “AP Poll: Health care law making us muddle-minded,” Sept. 22
The article in Wednesday’s “Politics Roundup” (attributed, I’m pleased to note, to the Associated Press and not to The Examiner) asserts that the new health care law won’t raise most people’s taxes this year.
How disingenuous can the press be? Few people are worried about taxes going up this year. Doesn’t the AP (or The Examiner, for that matter) have a responsibility to point out that the national plan will cause taxes to go up in the future unless Santa Claus shows up with a lot of money in his toy bag?
Rod McFadden
Manassas
Lost Lexus is karma for misusing handicapped tag
Re: “Tale of towing from handicapped space generates unexpected response,” Sept. 20
Thank you for highlighting the immoral and illegal use of handicapped parking tags or placards glorified in a front page Washington Post article. Bully for the D.C. police for towing Martena Clinton’s car! They should levy a cash fine and community service on her as well.
Rather than whining about her parking woes and expecting our sympathy, perhaps Clinton can learn about people with real disabilities who have real accessible parking issues as a direct result of people like her. The Post missed an opportunity when they failed to ask why she was using her husband’s parking placard.
As a person with multiple physical and sensory disabilities who can no longer drive, I refuse to obtain a handicapped parking placard because so many other people need it more than I do.
Deb Cotter
Washington
Media’s double standard in full view
With all the attacks on Tea Party members before the upcoming November elections, I find it very ironic how the double standard of reporting from the left is overlooked when it comes to liberals vs. conservatives.
Christine O’Donnell and Joe Miller have both been targets for what they have done or said years ago: Ms. O’Donnell for practicing witchcraft with her then high school boyfriend, and Miller for getting farm subsidies for land he owned in 1990.
Yet the late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., was a Ku Klux Klansman who recruited people to go out and destroy black people’s property. Byrd’s obituary said that “he spent much of his political career repenting the racism of his youth.”
We are supposed to just forget Byrd’s past? Not on America’s life.
Jim Murray
Landover
