Congressman Tom Cole is offering The Progressive Geek the Congressional Order of Merit...
...or so says Shelly Burroughs in a voicemail left at my home today. Of course, being The Progressive Geek, with my intense distrust of our anti-American dysfunctional government, the first thing I did was to search the Internet for more information on this "highest honor" (as described in the voicemail) that supposedly congress thought I deserved. Almost instantly, I discovered that this so-called honor is a scam by Tom Cole and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). It appears from my search on the web that hundreds, or more probably thousands of people are approached with this award for the purpose of collecting contributions and adding people to an "advisory committee" where you are forced to endure listening to a recording of Republican drivel regarding their agenda to stop Nancy Pelosi and those "bad liberals" from ruining small businesses. The price for this fake honor is several hundred dollars, paid to the NRCC.
Don't get me wrong. I have no love for Nancy Pelosi and many of the Democrats who gave so many promises in 2006 and failed so miserably to keep any of them. My back is still bleeding from all the stab wounds. I am also much more concerned over how the Democrats are out to ruin American jobs, particularly hi-tech jobs, than over what they might do to "small businesses". What I find so insulting is how Cole and the NRCC have stooped to an incredible low in trying to scam the Americans into forking over money to the Republican Party.
All I can say is: this should tell you what the Republican Party thinks of us American Citizens. They must think that we all believe that we won the International Lottery and that we have a million dollars coming from a business deal in Nigeria.