A few days ago, I actually managed to get my email INbox down to single digits. Which required days of ruthless slaughter, starting close to 500 and more than 100 coming in every day.

Before I delete it, though, I thought y’all would enjoy this perfectly routine official Democratic Party rant — of the sort that I frequently share with y’all — which would not have been worth sharing, except that it was from a guy who was not quite yet a household word at the time. OK, so maybe his name WAS a household word, but it wasn’t applied to him, specifically, until he showed his to the world.

The date was March 26 (oh, trust me; I dug through layers of sediment much older than that). The name was Anthony Weiner:

Brad —

Let me tell you something about these Republicans: the only way to deal with them is to stand up and face them head on.

Just look at the stunts they’ve tried to pull since taking the Speaker’s gavel: cutting off funding for teachers, ramming through a bill to defund NPR and repealing health care reform.

Now, they’re trying to let the same banksters and corporate criminals that got us into this economic mess off the hook by tearing away at Wall Street reform.

We’re fighting them with everything we’ve got but it doesn’t mean anything unless we’ve got you standing behind us every step of the way.

Contribute $3 or more to our Million Dollar Matching Gift Campaign before the March 31st FEC deadline and your contribution will be matched 2-to-1 by a group of generous Democrats — tripling the impact of your support.

I mean seriously — an emergency meeting to defund NPR?

This is going to create jobs and get our economy back on track? This is the crisis that Republicans think we should be focused on? Give me a break.

We’re just 5 days out from the big March 31st FEC deadline. Everyone’s going to be pouring over Democrats’ numbers to see if we’ve got what it takes to fight the right. We’re just over $300,000 short of our million dollar goal. I need you to stand with us.

Contribute $3 or more to our Million Dollar Matching Gift Campaign before the March 31st FEC deadline and your contribution will be matched 2-to-1 by a group of generous Democrats — tripling the impact of your support.

Thanks,

Anthony Weiner
U.S. Congressman

“the only way to deal with them is to stand up and face them head on…” But one tip, Mr. Weiner: Be sure your clothes are on before you do that! Oops. Too late…

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