Preachiness is not becoming, Burt

Mr. Constable, thank you for reminding us how enlightened you and your ilk are. Anger is ugly. You are right to scold. How heartening that you would never succumb to it.

While some conservatives got so angry about this health insurance overhaul bill as to leave phone messages to their Democrat representatives threatening violence, liberals have patriotically reminded their Republican representatives that they're mean and racist. At least one such patriot did so in the form of installation art by vandalizing Rep. Cantor's office in Virginia.

Thank you for reminding us again how you did not get angry a decade ago when your "presidential candidate got more votes" and still lost in the Electoral College. How brave of you to have moved on so soon. And when the "uniter" did such horrible things as president, your ilk insisted impeachment. But as your ilk said: that wasn't anger; that was patriotism. Would that we were all so mature.

But should we be surprised by your dazzling behavior, Mr. Constable? After all, you are one of those elite few who are so wise; much wiser than we. You are a journalist. And not just any journalist, but an editorialist! No one else knows so little about so many things.

Seriously, though, such vile threats have surrounded politics longer than the U.S. has existed, lobbed by members on all sides. That hasn't changed with this bill. These threats are mean and cowardly. One might even call them evil, if you still believe in such things, Mr. Constable.

Stop blaming one side. Control your reactions to your own feelings of anger. We have not all missed the subtly-placed, passive-aggressive barbs of anger in your articles. I'll try to help by apologizing for lacing this letter with my own sarcastic barbs.

Alex Garbe

Geneva