Who else gets mass emails from repub friends and relatives?

[GumboYaYa]

My Father-in-law sends us the most ridiculous mass emails all the time.

Today I sent the following email to his email list with a big smile on my face:

Regardless of your political affiliation, all good people share a deep revulsion over the sexual exploitation of children. Imagine if it was your child or grandchild who was the victim of an adult predator. No child should suffer that fate.

We now have all learned that Representative Mark Foley is a sexual predator who has at a minimum been sending sexually inappropriate messages to minors working in Congress. We also know that Foley had a liaison with at least one of these minors and has attempted to arrange meetings with several others. It remains to be known whether he raped any children, but that certainly seems like a possibility given what we do know.

For the past year, members of the Republican leadership in Congress, by their own admission, have been aware of this inappropriate conduct. It appears that nothing has been done to stop this behavior or to discipline Mr. Foley. Even after finding “naughty emails” (as the President’s spokesperson calls them), the Republican leadership in Congress permitted Mr. Foley to participate actively in the Congressional Page program. The Republican leaders quite simply chose political expediency over protecting children from a known predator.

The American people deserve to know the lengths that Republican Congressional leaders will go to protect their political power. There must be a full investigation of who knew what about Foley’s sexcapades and what was done to stop it. Additionally, any leader who acted to coverup this activity, sacrificing children in the process, must resign from Congress.

Here is a link to the contact information for members of Congress: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress / Contact your congressional rep and demand that they investigate Foley and his enablers in Congress.

Please forward this to everyone you know!

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Please feel free to copy, paste, revise or improve my email if you feel the same pleasure I do in pricking the balloon filled with Republican hot air.

[Hav]

1. .

Personally I think it's a bit sickening to see that so many would like to divert from the issue or find excuses for the incident. I'm wondering whether we would have acted that way.
I would say that the best way to handle that issue would have been to only concentrate on what was done wrong. Deal with, accept responsibility and do it better next time but don't point the finger. That is not only childish, it also somehow implicates that there wasn't so much wrong about it as others have done similar things. It totally misses the point.

[EFerrari]

2. I don't have any friends (that I know of) that are Thugs.

And the 3 Thugs in my extended family know better than to send me tripe.

[skids]

3. Here's another instant-paste one for you...

Really it's a war of time, and we do ourselves a disservice by not having handy cut-and-paste responses that we can just fire back. Thoughtful replies are all good and nice, but the 15 minutes you spend on that are better spent on other activities.

So I offer into your arsenals -- improve and forward as you see fit:

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;

[Warpy]

4. I stopped all that stuff dead years ago

By telling them I didn't appreciate being bombarded with lies and propaganda, combining it with a reference to and quotes from snopes.com, and promising that the next mass email of lies would get their address blocked from my mailbox.

Then I followed through.

I only had to block a couple of them before they all got the message.

[SheilaT]

5. That's actually

a pretty innocuous email that says exactly what we all feel. Notice it contains nothing pointing a finger at Dems.

However, hardly any one sends me mass emailings any more as I never hesitate to do a "reply all" when I get some right-wing crap. Snopes is my friend.

Several women friends continue to send me mass "feel good" stuff that makes me want to barf, and I can't figure out a way to let them know I'd really rather not get that crap. Any suggestions? For now, I just delete and NEVER respond, on the theory that I don't want to encourage them. These are friends with whom I exchange normal emails with regularly.

[npincus]

6. I get them from Mark Mehlman!