OK. Which DU dem-basher wrote this powerful letter?

[John_H]

Dear Senator_____________,

I write to express my outrage at your current practice of enabling President Bush and the GOP agenda. I am especially disturbed by your insistence that filibustering every republican bill, judicial nominee, cabinet pick and procedural vote would be “unwise considering the political situation in America.”

I am no stranger to the hardscrabble reality of politics, Senator. My doctoral dissertation, “Good Golly Ms. Molly: Poverty, Politics and Pomade in the works of “Little” Richard Penniman, in which I argue that he (re)asserts the hermeneutics of the “three-stone cods” faction of the Whig Party’s proto-Green rhetorical machinery to construct a Jamisonian discourse calling into question the entire corpus of pre-post-postmodern socio-political commentary, has given me a first hand experience with the plight of the poor in 21st Century America.

I am therefore uniquely qualified to point out that you have far more in common with my father’s fellow Cardiologists and golfing partners than you do with the working families I come in contact with at the RetroHome Mid-Century Modern Furnishings,, at Fresh Fields, and at Raw! Uncooked Organic Cuisine and Teahouse.

In stark contrast to your corporatist-funded record of right wing water-carrying, I’ve paid my dues, Senator, as the attached CV and a lifetime of social activism indicate. Even before I my second birthday, I routinely refused to consume Birdseye spinach, Green Giant Asparagus Tips in Butter Sauce, and other industrially farmed agricultural products. As an eight-year-old freedom rider I loudly refused to sit in the rear bench seats of the mercury villager “bus.” I protested the pervasiveness of military industrial complex by affixing fireworks to GI Joe Action Jeeps at age twelve, and insisted upon receiving a fuel efficient Saab Convertible for my sixteenth birthday rather than the gas guzzling hand me down Buicks and Chevies driven by my less socially conscious friends.

I currently provide financial assistance to Doctors without Borders, and serve on the executive boards of PhD’s without Phences, Poets without Panties, and Teachers without Tenure.

In closing, let me get to the central point of this letter: I request--no, I demand--that you not adopt or even weigh the benefits and costs of, briefly consider, read op-eds which address, watch TV newscasts which describe, tell or listen to apocryphal tales about, dream of, cast longing glances at, or otherwise have anything to do with a position that may run the risk of offending my finely tuned ideological principles. Should you ever find yourself unsure if a particular position falls in relation to my system of values and beliefs or desire to discuss, at a mutually convenient time, my unique qualifications dictate Democratic Party policy please do not hesitate to contact me.

With Very Best Wishes,

R________ P__________

[Sinistrous]

1. That alleged letter is somewhere between satire and raw sarcasm.

Was it posted somewhere (if so, can we have a link?) or did it spring from your own creative nodes?

[John_H]

7. Sorry, no link---it's based on

a conversation I had with a guy at a party last weekend who typifies the king of Dem bashers that disgust me most, a tenured prof at a fairly well known DC area University who spent the evening bashing every Democrat, but mostly talking about his own brilliance and meanwhile displaying an Edith-grade social studies view of how politics works.

On the way home Ms. H said, "That guy talks like he's reading from letters of application for Assistant professors of English." The above is an over the top exegesis of my frustration.

When some pissed off 19 year old spouts off about Biden on Du, I get it and it doesn't bother me. But when an ostensibly full grown adult sounds like the kids who sit in the front row of Poly Sci 220, I get a little pissed.

[Sinistrous]

10. Thank you. I just did not understand the "DU dem basher" in you subject.

I still don't.

The professor you mentioned sounds like he is an ass.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. the Goodwill Hunting dude played by Matt Damon?

[ChiciB1]

3. I Think You Got The Wrong Idea

about this letter. What I'm reading from this person is that he/she is pissed off that our Democratic Representatives and Senators are hiding under their chairs. Not doing a damn thing for our Party because they're afraid of being called LIBERAL!! Or maybe UN-PATRIOTIC!! That the Boy King EEIIdiot and his cohorts have them scrambling and shaking in their shoes!!

I know my one Senator here in Florida... Bill Nelson sure ain't standing up for me!! Ya hear me Bill, I keep posting this stuff about you?? I guarantee I will work to get you UN-Elected. I wrote telling you this before. Hey, what's ANOTHER Repuke here in Florida anyway??? Cruella is supposed to represent me!! HA!

Am I wrong?? If I am, then to you who dun writ this, whaz up??

[Bryn]

4. Oh, Gawd, I miss Bob Graham (D-Fla)!!

:(

[ChiciB1]

5. Ain't That The Truth!!

Him and Walkin Lawton. Did you hear that Chiles' son won't be able to run for Governor because he can't meet the residency requirements???

[QC]

6. Practically any of the "progressives" I went to grad school with

could have written that letter. One of them I remember well actually did drive a Saab convertible that Daddy had given her. It's how she got to all those expensive coffeehouses where she sang songs from the Wobbly songbook.

[ChiciB1]

8. And How I Miss

BOBBY!! I cried for weeks after his death, hit me even worse than John. Everytime I see his picture I still feel a sense of loss.

[spooky3]

9. good work!