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Tired of getting phone calls from the RNC begging for donations? Your prayers have been answered — they’ve fired their entire phone bank!
Faced with an estimated 40 percent fall-off in small-donor contributions and aging phone-bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update, Anne Hathaway, the committee’s chief of staff, summoned the solicitations staff last week and told them they were out of work, effective immediately, the fired staffers told The Times.
Of course, the reason donations have fallen off is because even hardcore RNC donors hate Republicans these days. The RNC phone solicitors depend on a nationwide army of xenophobic old people, just like casinos. But now those old people have learned that President Bush wants to sell their daughters to Mexicans, and they’re not happy.
Without the phone bank staff, the RNC will have rely entirely on their digustingly wealthy large donors, along with the usual mix of craven fearmongering and criminality.
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I forgot how much I love that picture. The one of the left looks like such a douchebag future LNS rapist. And the erect polo shirt collar just seals the deal...
Way to twist the truth there, commie-loving unamerican, defeat mongers! The RNC solicitations office was only closed temporarily. It will be reopening soon with updated equipment operated by highly trained and motivated staff ... in Bangalore.
I'm not sure why the Republicans are going so gaga over Fred Thompson just because he's a mediocre actor on a show where no one can actually remember his character's name when the RNC's cheif of staff was the star of the Princess Diaries...
Nice picture of young Alberto Gonzales, before his evil fawning sychophantic tendecies set in.
I doubt they'll bother trying to frighten the wealthy as plutocrats can afford their own island fortresses and private armies. More likely the RNC will highlight opportunites for naked corruption and shamless cronyism to raise money.
How could anything being led by Anne Hathaway fail? If she asked me to, I would TOTALLY donate to her.
Oh, PHONE bank.
The girl from that Meryl Streep movie about fashion is the RNC's chief of staff? I totally don't like that movie anymore!
Republican donors don't answer their own phones anyway. That kind of thing is for "Associates." Young, blond, long-legged, big breasted "Associates."
@Airsank: He is in training while acting in a movie as the most corrupt president of the 19th century, Ulysses Grant, another Publican of great renown.
Why is it that I suspect that in a few weeks we will find out that the phone banks had important information about Rove doing something wrong that will be "accidentally" lost upon its closing.
Am I getting cynical?
@MikeL:
I thought Republicans hired illegal immigrants to do that sort of work. That way you don't have to pay social security taxes.
It was very generous of Wonkette to not make their own Anne Hathaway joke in the body of the post. Thanks for the raw meat, dudes!
Of course, the Pentagon is hiring.
http://www.DraftYoungRepublicans.com/
Telemarketers out of a job? As much as I like the pic, surely this calls for the crying bald eagle!
Free advice for the RNC: Nigerians! Let the Nigerians handle your fundraising and you'll be filthy with moolah.
"Moolah" is a Yoruba word that means, literally, "dollars from suckers".
You're welcome.
Dude with the popped collar: Child or Midget? You Decide.
AHAHA
There is such message control within the Republican base that it has learned to recognize when Party policy deviates from organizing principles!
That's, ha, really funny, haha, wooo...
It's not like Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi could totally cave on Iraq and get away with it.
Little known political fact: The RNC's Anne Hathaway is the daughter of the Beverly Hillbillies' Jane Hathaway. http://www.fsupibetaphi.org/images/photos/nkulp.jpg
Also, former GOP Rep. Connie Morella's family name was really Mozzarella.
@Muddle:
Jane Hathaway had a daughter. Very droll. I suppose Charles Nelson Reilly was the father?
Back in the day, we didn't let those people have children. Who do you think she was, the Vice President's daughter?
@MattyBoyFromPSP:
Mary Cheney's virgin birth has little to do with Dick's high-ranking position in the secular (hedonistic) world of Madam Palfrey's unincorporated District.
The VP just asked his boss to ask for a special pass, just this once, from his buddy Jesus. Case closed.
In the olden days when I was a young Republican (I grew up in Palm Beach COunty, the county that would later bring you the Hanging and/or Pregnant Chad, how was I supposed to know better?) I worked in the RNC phone bank. I was unwittingly subversive, however, because every month when they posted our tally, it turned out I brought in less in donations than I was actually earning, so I COST the RNC money.
I was not fired, however, because my boss was a sexual predator, apparently, and had the hots for me. I know this because I one day, after I made an insouciant and flirtatious remark to my supervisor on my way out the door I secretly hid just outside the threshold to hear what would be said about me in my absence* (*This is an excellent trick, but be judicious in employing it as it may backfire. Sometimes you hear TERRIBLE things.) Anyway, what I heard was this (and now I realize that I woiuld have had a GREAT sexual harassment case):
Supervisor #1: "You know she's a virgin right?"
Supervisor #2: "Yes and I've been thinking of relieving her of that."
This message brought to you from the former bowels of the RNC.
@the_woog: If you were a virgin, how did Chad get you pregnant?
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