Rock salt blizzard slams Snowe after health vote

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/126083.html

Conservative blogger’s protest weighs 115 pounds

WASHINGTON — 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.

Though the analysis and recaps were inevitable, the 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.

Erickson did not respond to a request for comment, though he did post a RedState entry titled “RedState Readers Stimulate the Economy” Monday night, citing a Wall Street Journal blog post saying that 240 bags of rock salt had been shipped to Snowe’s Maine office by a company called Ron’s Home and Hardware.

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This confirms the right-wing proclivity of sending white powder to recalcitrant members.

Is anthrax next?

[BuyingThyme]

1. I like that.

[dionysus]

2. i'd be like "thanks assholes, you just bought my winters supply of salt for the driveway."

[tblue]

3. Dang! Should've bough stock in the rock salt industry!

Freedom Fries
Teabags
Rock Salt

So juvenile. And what a waste. If you've got cash to burn like that, feed some starving person!

[Birthmark]

4. 23 bags?!

Oh, no! I'll bet she's worried.