I'm a prick. I just called Duke Cunningham's office

[SammyBlue]

Here's the conversation:

Obnoxious woman: Hello, Randy Cunningham's office.

Me: Yes, I'm looking at the Congressman's website and I'm wondering if you could direct me to news on his felony conviction?

Obnoxious woman: (five second pregnant pause) I don't believe we have the on the website.

Me: Oh, well, is there anything about him resigning in disgrace?

Obnoxious woman: No, but I can pass that message on to the people who do the webpage.

Me: I don't believe he'll need a webmaster in prison. Tell the Congressman I hope he enjoys prison.

<click>

That put a huge smile on my face.

[Debi]

1. Bad Sammy....bad....bad....bad

:spank:

[SharonRB]

2. Talk about adding insult to injury

You bad!

[liberalhistorian]

3. LOL!

How I would have loved to have seen the look on her face when you were talking to her! :evilgrin:

[benburch]

4. High-5!

:toast:

[JoZbean]

5. It put a huge smile on mine too! Thanks!

[troubleinwinter]

6. GOOD Bad Sammy!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. Yes, very naughty.

But I was glad he at least 'fessed up and avoided millions for a useless trial.

I wish him well in prison. What a come down. Greed is a sad thing.

[troubleinwinter]

9. Agreed. At least he fessed up. Wish the rest would.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. Hell yeah

now, I have to admit, there is a part of me that would like to spit on his shoes...but I am all about rehabilitation and doing work with prisoners (one of my volunteer areas) and now that he's a for-sure crook, I gotta give him the same treatment.

[Ptah]

14. Thank you for your volunteer work, TallahasseeGrannie.

for a family member, I thank you for your efforts
to help in rehabilitation.

:hug:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

18. You're welcome

prisoners and their families are modern lepers. But they are human.

[Justice Is Comin]

28. Oh please trouble...

he fessed up when he got caught !! He denied it right up until only weeks ago because he found out the prosecutor had him nailed ten ways to Sunday. It not only would have cost him a fortune to go to trial but his jail time for the conviction would have been far worse than what it will be now.

Give them your sympathy when they have morals before they're found out to be government slime. Not after they learn they're going to be fingerprinted for their felony.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

44. If I thought that I couldn't do prison volunteer work

they are all the same to me, whether they confess before, during, after or never. When you get that low you grasp at anything to maintain your sanity, and if coming clean is a soul issue for him, then I respect it.

Besides, I just LOVE knowing exactly what he did and can't wait until we find out exactly who else was involved! (ok, I'm a nice person most of the time, but not all!)

[troubleinwinter]

45. I have ZERO sympathy for these criminals

I'm just glad he 'fessed up so we don't have to waste time, effort and taxpayers dollars on a trial, and glad we don't have to listen to continued lies from him.

[Poet Lariat]

8. Love it

Makes me want to pick up the phone and call someone who needs calling. I live in Texas...should be plenty to choose from.

[1620rock]

13. Duke is a very bad apple to be sure...

...but you know, he went to Nam AND did not steal one ten thousandth of the amount * stole (and continues to steal.):crazy:

[Poet Lariat]

15. Yeah, bad is a relative term and there are degrees...

yet they still fall under the main heading of "bad".

[Hello_Kitty]

17. I get up in the afternoon because I work nights

I've got my TV set to cable news as my alarm. I woke up groggy, when Cunningham was mid-resignation speech and in my half asleep state I was hoping it was Tom Delay....sigh....Oh well one can hope, can't one?

[Poet Lariat]

20. Hope is why most of us are here (IMHO)

Delay hasn't admitted to anything yet except maybe to the little White Angel on his right shoulder. Wait...Wait...I've been corrected by a voice from above. It seems that Tom Delay was never issued a White Angel at all, but instead was given 2 Red Angels...the kind with horns instead of halo's. That explains a lot!

[bluestateguy]

10. Idea

How about a "Jerky Boys" CD for government offices?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. Mr. Cunningham thanks you for your concern..... good one... I'll

bet that was more fun than you've had in awhile.... :)

[egadsbrain]

16. His tearful statement today...

Sam Seder on AAR is playing the audio of Cunningham's "apology" tonight. BOOHOOHOO! :cry:

It's quite entertaining!}(

[Up2Late]

19. Excellent!

:yourock:

[INDIA]

24. As a former Political Intern...

Can I please ask everybody to recognize that calls like this are in poor taste and accomplish nothing. I'm sure it felt good, but ost likely the person answering the phone was either an intern or a (very low) level staff assistant who has absolutely nothing to do with anything. If you have a legitimate opinion or issue you care about, good on you, but messages like this never get recorded, will obviously never reach the congressman, and only drive people (like me) insane. I can't tell you how many wackos would go on and on about how I was going to hell because of my boss's pro-choice position. It sucked.

[SammyBlue]

38. From experience, most political interns support the boob they're interning

for. It's part of the game. If they can't handle phone calls like mine (and I was very respectful), then politics is NOT their forte and they need to get out.

I probably spoke to a college neo-con.

[slor]

21. You are not a prick...You are my Brother! n/t

[Ravy]

22. Obnoxious woman?????

She didn't seem to be obnoxious at all in that conversation.

Is this part of a running conversation you have had with that office?

[NanceGreggs]

23. With the shortage of jobs ...

... in our 'wonderful economy', this might be a new enterprise for some of our DU website designers -- "We update your webpage the SECOND you cop a plea, or are indicted, arrested, convicted! No need to wait - sign up NOW!"

Congratulations, SammyBlue! You're definitely my kind of PRICK!

[lolly]

25. You Forgot to Ask

"Does he still think the liberals in Congress should be lined up and shot?"

(Yes, he apparently said that.)

Time to call back.

For those who are whining about this--it's her job to deal with constituents. She should relay the mood of the constituents to her bosses. I doubt if she's strongly opposed to the good man and is only working there to feed her kids. Heck, if she weren't a loyal party woman, she probably wouldn't have been hired.

[HawkerHurricane]

26. I weep for "Duke" Cunningham.

Yes, I do. The man was the finest navy aviator for his generation, a 'Ace' with 5 air to air victories over Vietnam, the founding Commanding Officer of Top Gun, a fighter pilot without peer...

He never should have gone into politics. He should have gotten a job with Grumman or Boeing, and helped them design (and sell, I admit) fighter planes, written his memoirs, and passed into obscurity as a (lower case h) hero.

He has soiled the memory of himself. And I grieve for what might have, should have, been.

I will not defend his actions, nor claim that he should be punished lightly, nor that it was anyone's fault but his own. I merely wish that the man has stuck to what he was best at.

[CatWoman]

27. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:rofl:

you GO, Sammy!!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

29. Sammy, Sammy, Sammy. What are we gonna do with you?!

:hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::party::party::party::party::party:


Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[SofaKingLiberal]

30. Yo Sammy!

:yourock:

[Catherine Vincent]

31. Yes, that was a prickish thing to do. Shame on you!

:evilgrin:

[TahitiNut]

32. Making "I'm a prick" part of the topic is a bit risky.

After all, if someone were to post their agreement, it'd be on-topic and not an ad hominem ('personal attack'), right? :evilgrin:

Me? I think the conversation shows courage, honesty, and integrity - "manly" values, I guess. So, symbolizing such values iconically in that way is appropriate, I suppose. (In that sense, I think Cheney is surely mis-named.) :silly:

[SammyBlue]

42. Hey, I'm calling myself a prick. I'm just asking for agreement

I have skin seven thumbs thick!!!

[Synnical]

33. Bad man! I will spank you as I LMAO!

Good job!

[applegrove]

34. Bad. We are better than that. Don't you remember the Congressional

Black Caucus getting tons of freeper hate phone calls during Katrina?

We fight like adults cause we are. That woman on the phone may have been one of the biggest duped in the case. She tied her career to someone who stole. Have some sympathy for her. She has some lessons to learn and you are getting in the way of that.

[northzax]

35. good point, she's a low level staffer

looking at unemployment due to no fault of her own. Any more than the Receptionist at Enron was guilty of fraud. Why take it out on her?

[applegrove]

36. It simply makes her world messy and unclear. When it should be

quite clear to her who betrayed her.

And all those other staffers who tied their star to someone who went criminal. Time for all them to do a little thinking. Don't interfere with that. The truth is speaking pretty clear to all of them.

[northzax]

39. as far as I'm concerned

interns and LAs are basically blameless in who they work for on the Hill, unless it's the leadership, basically, it's the person who happens to represent the district their parents live in.

[applegrove]

43. We don't know the story of the person who was called. Perhaps they

are horrid and a neocon. Perhaps they are evil and were a part of the crime. We don't know. Either way - they have some thinking to do and childish pranks on our part have no business in it.

[0007]

37. Always remember the prick is the best of a man. At least

that what's Linda Tripp was quoted as saying to Monica Lewisky.

[FreedomAngel82]

40. Aw you're so naughty

I join in the :spank:

[Swamp Rat]

41. LOL!

:applause: