Yesterday I had a diary about how the right wing Christian internet group organized by Chris Carmouche called GrasstopsUsa is appealing to all its recipients to use their BLAST FAXES to try and pressure all Republican Senators to defend Tom Delay. There I outlined how Chris is using the tactic of geting his flock to believe they are personally being attacked when Tom Delay is attacked. That diary, complete with the e-mail text, is here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/19/74631/8131
Now, apparently, they are coming all unglued and urging their recipient list to send the faxes to every Republican in Congress.
Here is what I got this morning (at the wee, wee hours -- I am up worrying about all the work I have to do in my day job, and clearly Chris is up late at night trying to figure out how to keep Tom DeLay from going the way of all evil-doers!)
Dear GrassTopsUSA Member:
ALERT: WE'RE BLAST FAXING ALL 288 REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS AND DEMANDING THAT THEY SUPPORT HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER
TOM DELAY!
We made an executive decision yesterday before your Blast Faxes
started going out to include all 233 Republican Members of the
House AND all 55 Republican Members of the Senate in your fax
event.
If you have already participated -- rest assured that your fax is
going to ALL 288 Republican Members of Congress.
And if you haven't participated as of yet, please consider doing
so now.
A campaign of this size is rather ambitious for us. We
anticipate taking a big hit in terms of finances and resources,
but this issue is simply too important -- we have to pull out all
the stops and stand tall for the man who has stood tall for the
conservative cause.
Please stand with us!
So, it is up to us. Chris the Laptop activist is effective because he gets people to do his action alerts. This is how a small group of conservative evangelicals manage to look like such a large number of people: They speak in one, whiney voice.
So, I have added contacting all my congresspeople, not just my senators, and telling them how much I want the embarrassment to our country called Tom DeLay to be taken down from any position of authority.
A village in Texas is missing its exterminator.