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Hastert's solution: Phone Hotline?
I figured this was worth a new thread.
I heard good ol' Denny Hastert at his press conference yesterday offer a new phone hotline for the people of America to contact in case they're harrassed by a member of congress or some such thing. WTF? Am I supposed to heartened by this great fatherly gesture? That had to be about the most insulting and patronizing piece of BS I've ever heard from a politician. What a loser. I'm heading down to post office to re-register as an Independant.
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Congressional phone-sex hotline?
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10-06-2006, 11:30 AM
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10-06-2006, 11:35 AM
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Yeah, they played the message greeting on NPR this morning. I expect many parodies to follow. Bet John Stewart has fun with it.
But really, this is a perfect metaphor for what government does. Like searching my sneakers at the airport. "Here ya go--does this make you feel better citizen? We're doing ALLLL we CANNNN." |
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10-06-2006, 11:41 AM
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Considering yesterday's New York Daily news had three separate articles about sex-with-teacher, I would say there are many, many institutions in the good 'ol US of A that need a hotline.
The stone cold reality is - these people are out there. All over. It is just not the perv jumping out of the bushes.. Got kids and teens? Teach them to beware and be safe. |
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10-06-2006, 11:46 AM
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I'm gonna call the hotline and tell them the Speaker really, really needs to push himself away from the dinner table. And breakfast and lunch tables.
He's a prefect metaphor for our government, fat, bloated and drunk with power.
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Oh, I forgot...
NPR called the number, and it didn't work.
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There goes my plan ...
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Dollars to donuts that number is never listened to or probably goes to a computer that deletes all recorded content nightly.
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"To order a page sent to your hotel room, press 1. For a list of page AIM IDs, press 2. To confess inappropriate conduct in such a way that all parties can deny knowledge later, press 3. If you're absolutely corrupted by power, press 4. Para continuar en español la prensa cinco."
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I wonder if that phone line will be wire tapped....
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"If you want to argue whether Congress acted appropriately 24 years ago in the Gerry Studds matter, please stay on the line and someone will remind you it's 2006."
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We will stay the course. [8/30/06] We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05] We will stay the course *** We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03] And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04] And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. [4/16/04] And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04] Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course” [10/21/06] --- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America |
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