Why don't we have any of those annoying e-mail spam messages like we get from our freeper uncles? You know, the stuff that keeps Snopes in business. Is it that we are too polite to send it? Well, heck, I think politeness can go out the window for the next month or so, what say you?
So let's write one. Something that can be easily edited to be topical based on the flavor of the week -- this week's flavor, of course, is Foley. We can always rely on BushCo and the Republicans to make at least one abhorrant appointment or trangression a week, so...
Let me get you all started. It's a simple format. Just add your personal pet peeve crony in the comments, and I'll collect it all into a nice text you can just paste in the general direction of your freeper uncle the next time he spams, CC'd to his entire mailing list, of course.
Should we be surprised that Republicans allowed Mark Foley, a sexual predator, to be in charge of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children?
NOT. SURPRISED. AT. ALL.
Look what other fine choices Republicans have made:
Richard Stickler and Dave Lauriski, coal company executives, as head of the MSHA;
Edwin Folke and Jonathan Snare, union busters, as head of OSHA;
Paul DeCamp, a Wall Mart lawyer, to head the Labor Department Wage and Hour Division;
Cheryl Halpern, a professional government propagandist, chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting;
Tony Snow, an editorial pundit and radio jockey, as White House Press Secretary;
Thomas Noe, a now-convicted money launderer, as a major party fundraiser;
Duke Cunningham, a now-convicted defense contract kickback artist, on the Appropriations and Intelligence committees;
Bob Ney, now-convicted bribe taker, member of the Committee on House Administration;
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To you, fellow kossaks, I leave the elipses.