[An.American.Expatriate]

Can't verify accuracy. Got this in my mail.....

[joebellis]

Consider it verified. From the Zell Miller senate web site. http://miller.senate.gov/speeches/10-03-02-Iraq-snakes-Floor-speech.html

[Tamzee]

Well, for years my family teased by calling me "Mommy Snake-Killer" because I did the same thing. It was a group of snakes in the bush next to my toddlers' swingset, I grabbed a handy baseball bat.

Saddam sure looks like a snake to me and we know he kills children.

[Mamzelle]

Sounds like a Georgian, though it's hard for me to trust any Dem who's had dealings with the Trial Lawyer lobby. I suppose that's where he came by his affection for snakes. Copperheads are the chief snake threat in his part of the country...only copperheads aren't as bad as other poisonous snakes. They're pretty, not aggressive unless stepped on or cornered, easy to identify, though sometimes confused with common and harmless watersnakes. Copperheads don't swim unless they absolutely have to, and watersnakes are, well, watersnakes. The copperhead's cousin is the nasty, ugly, aggressive, highly poisonous Cottonmouth is the worst. Luckily not in my neck of the woods.

[jigsaw]

Apocryphal or not, it's an apropos analogy.
And how appropriate a potential herpetologist joined the Democratic party. I just wish he'd do now what he did to the other snakes he found.

[Sinner6]

God I will miss Zell. Too bad he is retiring.

[truthkeeper]

Bravo. What a man.

[Republican Wildcat]

Appears accurate other than the fact that Miller is the senior Senator from Georgia, not the junior Senator.

[Momto2]

Thanks for posting this - I also got this in my e-mail. It is an amazing thing..... when I get e-mails about issues (Estrada nomination, parital birth abortion, Iraq) that I have TWO senators who will be voting the RIGHT WAY!!!! So instead of the usual calls, e-mails, etc. I only need send a Thank You Note!!!! What a blessing!!

[AMNZ]

Are you sure this guy is a DemocRAT?!!
He's making sense, can't be a Rat.

[IncPen]

Snake killing ping

[pilgrim]

Re:  Snakes 

From:  Email Friend

 

Blind Snake and Bunny

 

Once upon a time (allegedly) in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake. By a surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth. 

One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course, knocked the snake about quite a bit.

"Oh, my," said the bunny, "I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you. I've been blind since birth, so, I can't see where I'm going.  In fact, since I'm also an orphan, I don't even know what I am." 

"It's quite OK,"  replied the snake. "Actually, my story is much the same as yours. I, too, have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother.  Tell you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out what you are, so at least you'll have that going for you." 

"Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So the snake slithered all over the bunny, and said, "Well, you're covered with soft fur; you have really long ears; your nose twitches; and you have a soft cottony tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit."

"Oh, thank you! Thank you," cried the bunny, in obvious excitement. The bunny suggested to the snake, "Maybe I could feel you all over with my paw, and help you the same way that you've helped me."

So the bunny felt the snake all over, and remarked, "Well, you're smooth and slippery, and you have a forked tongue, no backbone and no balls.  I'd say you must be French."

[muir_redwoods]

Perfect. Now I've got someone to point to proudly when people call me partisan and suggest that I hate all Democrats.

I'd like to trade some of my Connecticut Republicans for some of those Georgia Democrats.

[Lancey Howard]

Bump.
I have noticed for at least two years that Zell seems uncomfortable with the national Democrat Party. He's a loyal man and will likely stick with his party to the end, but like Sam Nunn and some other Democrats with decency and honor, I think he is appalled at the Patrick Leahy-Hillary Clinton-Barbara Boxer-Dick Durbin-Harry Reid wing of his party. I think he wants nothing to do with those disgusting scumbags.

[friendly]

Old man Miller is extremely eloquent and likable.

However, as a lawyer industry advocate, he is highly flawed and does not belong with Republicans or decent people. Sorry, Miller-o-philes. Better that he end his days with his traitorous, disgusting, evil democrats.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[SwinneySwitch]

Same for rattlers, coral snakes and cottonmouths in these parts.

[Defiant]

Zell is no blixiecrat. One of the few who isn't.