Political Views

Via TPM's "Daily Muck", an AP story on how hard it is to get good help on Capitol Hill these days:

Nobody expects to get a letter from a member of Congress that ends with an expletive. But that's what happened when Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., recently corresponded with a resident of her southeast Missouri district. The letter ended with a profane, seven-letter insult beginning with the letter a — "i think you're an. ..."

The missing word rhymes with "parole," which might be something the prankster will be lucky to escape with, if he's ever caught.

In other news, the office of the VPOTUS reports strong sales of "Big Dick Cheney's Political Vocabulary" workshop, now available on CD and DVD and in private sessions unwittingly co-led by Democratic members of Congress.