A Response (As published on 12/24)

High school graduate Marc Deveraux (letter to ChicoER, 12/17) still thinks like he did before he put on that mortarboard and proceeded to inflict his naivete on the rest of us. Now he has written an attack on "Bushies," a non-existent group, and Wally Herger, our fine member of Congress who has been in the trenches for many years, and understands exactly what kind of liberalism has "messed up" this country.

It is unlikely that Deveraux will need the expert he suggests he would ask to do his heart surgery, at least not for the part of that organ which contains his missing love of country. What he needs is a cure for the oozing meanness he has for the people who know "what is going on" better than he does.