September 26, 2013
Margaret Carlson
Bloomberg News
1390 New York Avenue
Washington, DC 20005

RE: “Cruz Channels Custer at the Alamo” – An attempt to decipher your column from the headline in the Miami Herald.

Ms. Carlson,

The nest of vipers that houses the ink stained wenches and wretches who proclaim the vile nostrums of modern American Liberalism has outdone itself.

A filibuster by Senator Cruz is evil, vicious, stupid, mean-spirited, polar bear killing, disproportionately injurious to women and minorities, plus it shows how homophobic and racist those snake handling gun nuts from the Tea Party are.

A filibuster by Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, the issue being abortion, is the highest form of representative democracy. Not since Antigone has a chick done so much to advance feminism. She has been credited with at least 2 miracles.

A filibuster by the goons and thugs in the Wisconsin legislature, lads and lassies who began civil dialogues with Republican counterparts with a joyful “Go fuck your self”, was hailed by the modern American Liberal toads as God-like. It was in keeping with the highest traditions of the American Labor movement. Names like Tony Pro, Johnny Friendly, Jimmy Hoffa, and Joe Hill overrun the memory banks.

A filibuster that was proposed by a junior Senator from Illinois over the debt limit and a Supreme Court nomination was hailed as the second coming of Cicero. That he did not go forth with them should have been anticipated by his repeated vote of “present” when faced with a tough vote in the Illinois legislature. What could be expected from a former community activist whose favorite color is plaid?

But then the wine dark waters of the sea of confusion were parted.

Your outrage over Senator Cruz’s filibuster was but a cover for your continuing broadside against members of the American military, particularly those serving overseas.

“Cruz Channels Custer at the Alamo” means that the charge you made in November, 2000 about GIs serving overseas not having their vote counted because they went overseas to avoid taxes just goes on and on.

I hope I am not the first to tell you that Custer wasn’t at the Alamo. Moreover, he was a cavalry officer. 4 decades and more than 1000 miles separate the man from the place mentioned. A small thing but worth noting.

[I shouldn’t construct a universal from a particular but modern American Liberals know jack shit about American History. And unless the American flag now has 57 or 58 stars on it Geography ain’t their strong suit either.]

The reason for the smarmy headline is self-evident.

Davey Crockett led his band of volunteers from Tennessee to Texas, a province of a foreign nation, to escape the burden of unjust taxation. They died because they did not want to pay their fair share of taxes.

Are you saying Good Riddance retroactively?

What should we do with Leonidas?



Kevin Smith