Whenever I hear about falling gas prices and interest rates, I think about former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s accommodation of the Bush administration by fostering tax cuts for the top 1 percent and lowering interest rates to 1.5 percent before the 2004 election.

I wonder if Greenspan’s replacement will also reduce interest rates and gas prices before the 2006 election, allowing gas companies and banks to have record profits while increasing the deficit, and take the electorate’s mind from the Iraq war.

When I hear President George W. Bush and U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales promoting torture, I think about the book by Stephen Myles, “Oath Betrayed,” which details how Army medical personnel watched detainees being tortured, then lied on death certificates about the manner of death.

Whenever I hear Bill Frist or Dick Cheney speak about our government’s public policies, I think of Halliburton, Cheney’s former employer, and the no-bid contracts and investigations into overcharging taxpayers billions of dollars, and of Frist being investigated for insider trading.

I have no one to vote for. Democrats are pro-choice and willing to win elections on the deaths of the unborn, while Republicans win with fear and by denying dollars to the environment, children and those in poverty.

Joanna Walsh-Ward, Lewiston