The Tuesday Funny Pages

Today's Forecast: Partly-Conservative Letters, Followed by Neutral Op-Eds

Today's Biased Letters to the Editors:

I'm assuming this one is a conservative, because the rant is about "do-gooders" who are ruining everything for everybody with rules and regulations, like making companies print calories on menus and warnings on cigarette packs. Conservative buzz-phrase: "In the meantime, the rest of us pay the bills."

Conservative #2 tells us that we should halve the salaries of all politicians until they start working to earn it. Conservative buzz-phrase: "What would happen if we stopped paying taxes?"

Liberal environmentalist is mad at Obama for his lack of support for the environment. Liberal buzzword: "green."

Liberal writer tells Mike Castle to put a cork in his whine about pork, because if funding comes through for Amtrak, Castle will be first in line to get his photo taken at the ribbon-cutting. Liberal buzz-phrase: "The Party of No."

Conservative thinks Senators and Reps should telecommute instead of living in DC because it would save money and keep them away from the party leadership. Conservative buzz-phrase: "when our country was started."

Today's Op-Eds: A Wash

Four op-eds today, none of which takes an obviously partisan side.

• UD prof Muqtedar Khan teaches us more about Islam. I haven't decided if the NJ has given him a regular column because they want to promote peace and understanding, or because they want to make the conservatives mad. I suspect the latter; if they wanted to promote peace and understanding, they'd put this on the religion page.
• David Broder tells us we're headed for fiscal disaster because nobody on either side has a clue.
• Al Hunt, Washington chief at Bloomberg News,says the same stuff as David Broder, except Al singles out Republican congressman Paul Ryan for having sort of a clue.
• Another Bloomberg Newsian, Celestine Bohlen, piles on Switzerland for allowing tax cheaters to have secret Swiss bank accounts.