Angry Conservatives Get Salty with Olympia Snowe
As the only member of the Indecision team who can pronounce the word 'ayuh' correctly, I feel it is my duty to comment on this item:
One week after lending her vote of support to the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform bill, Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, has gained countless column inches of newspaper exposure and at least 115 pounds of rock salt.
[T]he influx of rock salt came as a surprise to the senator's staff, who said they received a bundled UPS shipment of 23 5-pound bags of salt to Snowe's Portland office.
Popular conservative blog RedState sparked the makeshift protest with a post a week ago. In a play on Snowe's name, Erick Erickson, managing editor of the site and author of the post, wrote, "What melts snow? Rock salt," and urged readers to send just that as a sign of disapproval.
Okay, so. Right. Nothing shames a Mainer like receiving 115 pounds of rock salt, for free, in late October. Maybe these folks could "turn up the heat" on Sen. Snowe by sending her a couple tanks of heating oil, while they're at it?
Also, at the risk of being a heartless gimmick-wrecker, you don't put rock salt on snow. Rock salt goes on ice. Snow is dealt with by using shovels, plows and snowblowers… but it could get expensive, mailing these things across the country, and idignation only justifies so much postage.
And a "Blow Snowe" campaign would be going too far, even for RedState.
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@ WIDTAP: Good point! I just looked, and he's linking people to a 5-lb bag of salt for $3.50, which does seem pricey, but the description says it is the kind of salt you use "for making ice cream" — ??
Also, the Amazon listing has "15 new or used" bags of salt for $1.62, but "used" salt sounds like the ultimate ripoff to me. Very confusing. I hope Sen. Snowe's staffers are enjoying their homemade sundaes, though.
The guy at Redstate opened up an Amazon merchant account, price rock salt at a nifty profit, and then when to Redstate to pimp out the jacked up rock salt to 23 brainless zombies. What does the Redstate guy have to do for this money? Nothing other than promote it, as Amazon handles the sourcing and shipping to the address of your choice.
You too can cash in on the mindless outrage! Just open up a Amazon merchant account, price pacifiers at $10.99 plus shipping, and blogwhore the hell out of them on conservative web sites as showing your support for Glenn Beck. Then sit back and watch the wingnut cash just come pouring into your bank account.
well its green and i like to boogie orlay
latino in me… nah not spanish… a show on tv recomended it…w/o a warning….
lemee tell ya HOW they get over the border
and yes it hurts….
so i salt my own rimsof-fruity frozen delight
