For almost 67 years Jimmy Doolittle has been considered to be one of America's most noted heroes for leading the retaliatory Tokyo raid a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Perhaps is just as well that this Medal of Honor winner is no longer with us, as he might now be tried by our "emperor" for his "war crimes."

The Democrats were formerly identified as the "tax-and-spend" party. That should now be altered to "print-and-spend."

The emperor and his entourage of czars and lackeys - Joe Biden, Christopher Dodd, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Max Baucus, Henry Waxman, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barney Frank, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Sonia Sotomayor, John Murtha, Rahm Emanuel, Dick Durbin, etc. - are in such a rush to enact new edicts and mandates that far too many Americans are still too enthralled by Emperor Teleprompter to realize what he and his band of bozos are doing to our society.

I'm 67, which puts me only eight years away from being put into the no hip or knee replacement category in the "nationalized" health care plan foreseen by the emperor.

Those of you who have spent the last year imitating ostriches, with your heads buried in the sand, likely have no clue as to the contents of the emperor's plan. You should quit getting your "news" from the Kool-Aid media outlets who love the emperor. God forbid that we are rapidly sliding into a socialist society.

Steve Turner

Bloomington