Another Florida Asshat Senator

[joreth]

From Senator Marco Rubio Do_Not_Reply@rubio.senate.gov
to Mrs. D.
date Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:09 PM
subject Responding to your message
mailed-by rubio.senate.gov
signed-by senate.gov
Dear Mrs. D,

Thank you for taking the time to write to me about federal funding for Planned Parenthood. I understand this is an important issue and I appreciate hearing your thoughts.

Floridians are concerned about the severity of our country's unsustainable $14 trillion debt, and as your elected representative, I have made a commitment to reduce government spending. With a projected deficit of $1.65 trillion for this year alone, every piece of the federal budget needs to be a part of the conversation of how to cut spending and lower the national deficit. We must withdraw our spending commitments to Planned Parenthood, as well as other organizations, in order to develop a long-term budget solution that will seriously address the economic problems facing Florida and our nation.

Again, thank you for contacting me about this matter. I look forward to any views or input you wish to share in the future

Comments

[joreth]

Yes, I'm working long hours this week and don't have time for your shit. Get off your high horse, you'll get a lengthy reply when I have time. This apparently comes as a surprise to you, but you are not the most important thing going on in my life right now, so back the fuck off.

[vicariance.livejournal.com]

My high horse? I am astonished by your venom. And I guess now we're even on the appalled front.

So yeah, consider my desire for a response met. Please don't let my words further compel you to take any time out of your busy week.

My ears are most likely now closed to anything of value you might have provided me had you not worn such marvelous arrogance.

Thanks for damaging my faith in humanity. Is that like, antiactivism? awesome.

[datan0de.livejournal.com]

Dude, get over yourself. You came into her journal and basically picked a fight. She eventually stopped responding because she has a life, and you added additional drama (by your own admission) by implying that she'd written you off and that this is somehow a failing on her part. She took a moment out of her exceedingly busy schedule to let you know that she wasn't ignoring you, and just had more important things to deal with.

Somehow this damages your faith in humanity? She doesn't owe you shit, and never did. Yeah, she's aggressive and inflammatory online. But someone here is being a dick, and it isn't her.

[vicariance.livejournal.com]

I can handle aggressive from anyone, and I can handle scathing from someone I don't respect, but this disdain feels like a slap. I may have been a dick, but I am definitely not the only one. She didn't owe me respect, but I did expect it anyway, thus my loss of faith.

And I wonder if "get over yourself" is a command that has ever been successfully followed.