Dems hurting our nation

The political formula D+N+P=Ds can be expressed as Do+Nothing+Phonies=

Democrats

The Democrats, led by socialist Nancy Pelosi and shady land-dealer Harry Reid, have done zilch.

They cite President Bush’s low performance ratings of 34 percent (Zogby poll, July 17) yet their own performance rating is a miserable 14 percent, reflecting what the public thinks of the DNPs.

DNP Pelosi’s first act as speaker of the DNP House was to kiss up to Syria’s terrorist-sponsor dictator Assad, instead of going to Israel and assuring our only real ally in the region that the newly elected DNP Congress was behind it 100 percent. Instead, she went to Syria and totally ignored Israel. Does that tell you something? It boggles the mind to understand how American Jews can support a party that’s linked by an umbilical cord to supporting both terrorists and the anti-Semitic U.N. Pelosi’s second act was to fly off to the North Pole and see Santa Claus about global warming.

DNP Reid’s claim to fame is a phony all-night sleepover about the war in Iraq. His party could stop the war right now by defunding it but that would defeat its bloody strategy of keeping the war going until next year’s presidential election.

Reid’s "energy" initiative was another zilch in that it ignored completely the tapping of our own home-grown oil reserves. The Chinese must be laughing just as hard as the terrorists, knowing they have a nincompoop ally running the U.S Senate.

Oh, by the way, gasoline is $3.07 per gallon; an increase of 32 percent since the DNPs took control, and by golly, not a peep out of thespian Chuckie Schumer, the biggest windbag in Washington.

William Eckardt

Oneonta

Prayer won’t help save troops

In one of his columns, neo-con icon Bill O’Reilly gave a back-handed blessing to those benighted among us who willingly (willfully?) accept the label, "atheist." O’Reilly stated that atheists’ criticisms of religion should strengthen believers’ faith.

O’Reilly accepts the polls results that show 90 percent of U.S. citizens to be religious. I have as much faith in polls as I do in O’Reilly _ or "God." Until a poll can actually check the entire U.S. population and get 100 percent response, the statistic is as illusory as "God."

On the other hand, there may be some element of fact in the poll results. It is obvious from the public statements of many believers that the ancient world of the Bible is more real to them than the world of the present they’re living in.

Why, otherwise, would so few citizens publicly express outrage and opposition to the unwarranted war in Iraq? Some pray for U.S. troops in Iraq and the eventual end to the war. A comment by Timothy Jones might apply to such an ineffectual position. Jones wrote: "Give a man a religion and he’ll starve to death while praying for fish." Our troops are fish; their return home, not prayer, will save them.

William F. Roberts

Otego