Editorial for December 22, 2005


It’s the wish list

Dear Santa,
’Twas the last few days and nights before Christmas, and we the people of the Northeast Times know you’re a very busy guy these days. It’s crunch time for you.
So, to make your job a bit easier this year, we give you a wish list for the movers and shakers of city, state and federal government. We know many of them pretty well, so you’ll make their Christmas very, very merry if you give them what’s on this list:
• Mayor John Street: I want my administration to be free of scandal in 2006 — no indictments, no convictions. It’s a tall order, big guy, but what the heck, you can do it — you’re Santa!
• Michael Nutter: I want my pro-smoking, pro-cancer colleagues on City Council to see pictures of lungs that once belonged to smokers and non-smokers who breathed secondhand smoke.
• Rick Mariano: I want to get out of my legal jam and return to City Council to vote against Nutter’s smoking ban and get back to filling the air in Council with my colorful perspectives on life.
• Gov. Ed Rendell: I want the courage to veto an illegal pay raise if state lawmakers dare pass one again.
• Fans of the Flyers, Phillies, Sixers and Pigeons, er, Eagles: We want a championship. Please, Santa, you’re a miracle worker, aren’t you?
• Bill Cosby and Robert Culp: We want a reunion of our old I Spy TV series, with special guest star George W. Bush.
• Virginia Gov. Mark Warner: I want my bandwagon to continue right into the White House in 2008. Sorry, Hillary, no room for you, you’re not a true Southerner.
• Hillary Clinton: I want the momentum to return to the White House in 2008. Sorry, Mark. Been there, done that. Wanna do it again. And Bill loves me.
• Dick Cheney: I want the ability to amend or ignore the U.S. Constitution so I can continue to pull King George’s strings for the next 20 years. ••

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