Musgrave Constituent, Against All Odds, Makes Member of Congress Seem Reasonable, Mature in Comparison

Representative Marilyn Musgrave, seen here in a photo from Wonkette’s extensive “funny picture” database. (AFP)

If you’re going to stick dog shit in an envelope and shove it through the mail slot of a politician’s office mail slot, you could do worse for targets than Marilyn Musgave. Oh, you could very easily do better, but Musgrave is a nice, solidly hatable type, what with her matter-of-fact gay-hating and minor scandals like “violation of military code” (boooring). Still, put some effort into it!

Even more shocking than the act was the fact that Yvonne Ensz, 63, used an easily traceable envelop. She made only a half-assed attempt at blacking out the preprinted address, leaving her nine-digit zip code readable.

When asked if and why she did it, Ensz merely corrected the report from the Associated Press, saying it “wasn’t in the office doors, it was in the foyer.” She declined to offer a motive.

Ensz is also a professor emeritus of French, which is really just too damn good to be true. Still, you’d think with all that fancy schoolin’, she’d know to put the dogshit in a paper bag, light it, and run. Or at the very least, just leave some on the underside of the door knob!

Ensz has been charged with improper implementation of junior high pranks. She has been sentenced to T.P. her own home.

Dog Crap Shoved in Pol’s Mail Slot [Sploid]

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Gossip Roundup: The Smell of Fear

• Heard on the Hill: Rep. Kartherine Harris was seen barefoot outside of her house, screaming into her mail slot, “Let me in”… Does Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.) support the KKK?… “Lots of would-be Cabinet and high-level White House officials in a Gore administration” attended the reception for his film. [Roll Call]
• Washington Whispers: Democrats will scare voters about Republican plans for Social Security… Rumsfeld found “United 93” to be “really tough to watch”… Democrats are concerned about a Speaker Pelosi… Harry Reid loves his iPod… Bill Frist’s wife is releasing a book about fathers and daughters. [USN&WR]
• Inside the Beltway: Dick Cheney: “I will consider a book when that time comes.” [WT]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Clarence Thomas thinks Bush is in “real trouble.” [NYDN]
• Names & Faces: Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks on Bush: “I don’t feel he is owed any respect whatsoever.”… Arianna Huffington: “You can smell the fear in Hillary Clinton. What happened to that fearless woman? Everything she does is poll-tested.” [WP]

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George Bush Ate My Flesh

[AFP/Mandel Ngan]

Mmmmmm….BRAINS!

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Daily Briefing: ‘Smaller, More Lethal’ Force

• Military requests $3.9b to prepare Iraqi forces for a reduced American presence; Bush’s “strategy for victory” would rely on a “smaller, more lethal” American force. [NYT]
• Bush: “I want to defeat the terrorists, and I want our troops to come home, but I don’t want them to come home without having achieved victory… Quitting is not an exit strategy.” [WP]
• Administration vows to respond to E.U. questions concerning secret CIA prison locations in Europe. [WP]
• Republicans strongly denounce Rep. Randy Cunningham’s conduct in an effort to distance themselves from bribery scandal. [NYT, LAT]
• Businessman under investigation in Cunningham case supported 32 House members or candidates and raised over $100,000 for Bush’s re-election. [USAT, USAT]
• Bush continues promotion of his border security plan; raises $1.3m for Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and $450,000 for Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO). [WP, NYT]
• R. Glenn Hubbard, the former chairman of Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, calls the president’s Medicare plan “unwise”: “The current Social Security and Medicare systems are on an unsustainable path… The drug benefit is a new entitlement. This isn’t sustainable over the long haul and I don’t think it’s sustainable even over the next five years.” [WSJ]

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