I got a curious call from a friend today. Marsha wanted to let me know that our mutual senator, John Cornyn, the junior senator from Texas, had just placed a robo call to her house. Cornyn, it seems, borrowing a page out of Karl Rove’s playbook, was calling senior citizens who enjoy the benefits of Medicare, asking them whether they wanted to “Thank” him for voting the way he did on the recent Medicare bill.
Quite galling, isn’t it? That Cornyn votes against every American, every Texan on the Medicare program, then turns around and asks them to thank him for it.
In order to “Thank” our senator for voting against a bill that would have cancelled a scheduled cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients, patients like Marsha, all she had to do was press “1”.
She pressed “1,” and she was then informed that while the senator was asking for her acknowledgement of the favor that he had done her, the senator himself might not be the one picking up the phone.
She might have to talk to a staffer.
Oh well. Marsha stayed on the line because she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to tell someone, anyone, “that Rick Noriega was going to kick his @$% in November.”
Marsha is not your typical senior citizen.
But then, after waiting several minutes, a click was heard on the other end, and a recorded voice came on saying that the senator thanked her for her call but there was no one available to take it, and prayed that she would call again.
Click.
Now there are two possibilities in play here.
Possibility one is that John Cornyn’s campaign thought that this would be a great way to cover-up the fact that he had just voted away Medicare benefits to senior citizens in an election year, a vote that got him unendorsed by the Texas Medical Association, by convincing them that he had indeed done a good thing, a thing that he should be thanked for. Now having put this machinery in place, Cornyn’s staff completely screwed the pooch in setting up the callback system, resulting in the SNAFU that Marsha experienced.
Possibility two is that John Cornyn’s campaign thought that this would be a great way to cover-up the fact that he had just voted away Medicare benefits to senior citizens in an election year, a vote that got him unendorsed by the Texas Medical Association, by convincing them that he had indeed done a good thing, a thing that he should be thanked for. Now having put this machinery in place, senior citizens, to a man and woman, pressed “1” to give Cornyn, someone, anyone a piece of their mind about John Cornyn and how he completely ran roughshod over the entire population of people in Texas who are on a fixed income.
They all pressed “1” and Cornyn’s callback system got overloaded.
I’m going with possibility two.
Quite galling, isn’t it? That Cornyn votes against every American, every Texan on the Medicare program, then turns around and asks them to thank him for it.
In order to “Thank” our senator for voting against a bill that would have cancelled a scheduled cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients, patients like Marsha, all she had to do was press “1”.
She pressed “1,” and she was then informed that while the senator was asking for her acknowledgement of the favor that he had done her, the senator himself might not be the one picking up the phone.
She might have to talk to a staffer.
Oh well. Marsha stayed on the line because she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to tell someone, anyone, “that Rick Noriega was going to kick his @$% in November.”
Marsha is not your typical senior citizen.
But then, after waiting several minutes, a click was heard on the other end, and a recorded voice came on saying that the senator thanked her for her call but there was no one available to take it, and prayed that she would call again.
Click.
Now there are two possibilities in play here.
Possibility one is that John Cornyn’s campaign thought that this would be a great way to cover-up the fact that he had just voted away Medicare benefits to senior citizens in an election year, a vote that got him unendorsed by the Texas Medical Association, by convincing them that he had indeed done a good thing, a thing that he should be thanked for. Now having put this machinery in place, Cornyn’s staff completely screwed the pooch in setting up the callback system, resulting in the SNAFU that Marsha experienced.
Possibility two is that John Cornyn’s campaign thought that this would be a great way to cover-up the fact that he had just voted away Medicare benefits to senior citizens in an election year, a vote that got him unendorsed by the Texas Medical Association, by convincing them that he had indeed done a good thing, a thing that he should be thanked for. Now having put this machinery in place, senior citizens, to a man and woman, pressed “1” to give Cornyn, someone, anyone a piece of their mind about John Cornyn and how he completely ran roughshod over the entire population of people in Texas who are on a fixed income.
They all pressed “1” and Cornyn’s callback system got overloaded.
I’m going with possibility two.
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