politics: Fundie hyperbole
Yes, kiddies, it's time for another installment of AFAmail!
This week's is headlined, "The Time Is Now! Phone Calls To Your U.S. Senators Have Never Been This Important! Call Today! Get Others To Call!"
"Never been this important." Every word capitalized. All those exclamation points. Wow.
In a similarly modest tone, the e-mail opens with the proclamation, "We have come down to the final days and hours in the fight for our destiny."
I'm sorry, but if your destiny hinges on breaking longstanding Senate rules about changing longstanding Senate rules to eradicate the longstanding Senate custom of unlimited debate, a standard carefully observed to ensure that the majority never steamrolls the minority and that the Senate takes every action with due deliberateness and regard for the opinions of all its distinguished members, so that you can ramrod a couple of judges who are so ludicrously outside the mainstream in terms of political allegiance and judicial temperament that they can't even garner significant support in a mostly right-wing Senate ... you really need to get out more.
*breathe*
Sorry for that last sentence.
"Call your two Senators today and ask them to vote to kill the filibuster. If they do not, only those nominees who would become a liberal activist judge will ever get a vote on the Senate floor."
Uh, yeah, right. How conveniently they ignore the 95% of Bush judicial nominees who've already been confirmed. Were they liberal activist judges, you morons?
OK, rant over. Except for the call to action that closes the letter:
"Get others to call. Give out this information at church, work and with other family members. Our children's and grandchildren's future is at stake."
If anyone tried politicking to me at work, they'd get a tongue-lashing the likes of which is very rare from me.
And church. These American Taliban are utterly shameless in their attempts to turn America into a theocracy. Shameless. God doesn't play politics, and you shouldn't play politics in God's house.
This week's is headlined, "The Time Is Now! Phone Calls To Your U.S. Senators Have Never Been This Important! Call Today! Get Others To Call!"
"Never been this important." Every word capitalized. All those exclamation points. Wow.
In a similarly modest tone, the e-mail opens with the proclamation, "We have come down to the final days and hours in the fight for our destiny."
I'm sorry, but if your destiny hinges on breaking longstanding Senate rules about changing longstanding Senate rules to eradicate the longstanding Senate custom of unlimited debate, a standard carefully observed to ensure that the majority never steamrolls the minority and that the Senate takes every action with due deliberateness and regard for the opinions of all its distinguished members, so that you can ramrod a couple of judges who are so ludicrously outside the mainstream in terms of political allegiance and judicial temperament that they can't even garner significant support in a mostly right-wing Senate ... you really need to get out more.
*breathe*
Sorry for that last sentence.
"Call your two Senators today and ask them to vote to kill the filibuster. If they do not, only those nominees who would become a liberal activist judge will ever get a vote on the Senate floor."
Uh, yeah, right. How conveniently they ignore the 95% of Bush judicial nominees who've already been confirmed. Were they liberal activist judges, you morons?
OK, rant over. Except for the call to action that closes the letter:
"Get others to call. Give out this information at church, work and with other family members. Our children's and grandchildren's future is at stake."
If anyone tried politicking to me at work, they'd get a tongue-lashing the likes of which is very rare from me.
And church. These American Taliban are utterly shameless in their attempts to turn America into a theocracy. Shameless. God doesn't play politics, and you shouldn't play politics in God's house.
posted by Chris | 8:33 AM
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