# The flames of young love on Capitol Hill **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 24, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708 "2003-07-24T20:22:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708/21 "2003-07-24T23:52:37Z")
Actually the very fact that he believes he could have done it, and was intending to do so, proves he is completely untrustworthy with any real power. Ergo no career in politics. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708/22 "2003-07-25T00:54:12Z")
Threatening one’s coworkers is generally not well received by most employers. Employment at will is a wonderful thing. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708/23 "2003-07-25T01:06:45Z")
Ow. My head hurts from reading that. If the guy could compose something a little more eloquent and grammatically correct without so many damn misspellings, I would have considered that one decent note. However, I have to issue the following: ALLCON [sub](“All Concerned”)[/sub]: Me: Tri **pler** _(one “p”, one “r”)_ Him: Tri **pple** horn\*(two "p"s, no “r”)\* Bottom line: I had nothing to do with this. Pure coincidence that I share six letters with this guy’s name. Just as a precaution, I went ahead and updated my location field to indicate the fact I’m damn near 1000 miles from Utah anyway. . . Tripler I can spell. I can [sub]sometimes[/sub] flame. I can even spell when I flame. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708/24 "2003-07-25T01:20:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mtgman \* > \*\*Actually the very fact that he believes he could have done it, and was intending to do so, proves he is completely untrustworthy with any real power. Ergo no career in politics. > > Enjoy, > Steven \*\* And in today’s real world of politics, this disqualifies him how? :dubious: Yours in Cecilian sardonicity, Poly ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708/25 "2003-07-25T01:48:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spavined Gelding \* > \*\*Other than showing that the kid is an insufferable, self-absorbed jerk and reflecting badly on Senator Hutchinson’s selection of low level office help, I don’t understand why **Minty** ’s post was (1) amusing or (2) rage provoking. I found it merely (3) annoying. What am I missing here? \*\* Well, I am totally enraged. Like **Mercury** pointed out, this was a private (ha) exchange between ex-lovers. Why the fucking hell should this nasty letter cost Mr. Tripplehorn his job? The letter is not physically threatening at all, and the “blackball” talk is just talk. If this was a taped telephone conversation, and CheezyGirl went around the office playing the tape to people, or if she’d strewn hundreds of photocopies of a handwritten letter around capital hill, I wonder what the reaction would have been instead. I’ve never seen a more striking case of the medium affecting the message. If I were running that office, I’d have reprimanded Kelly for sending a stupid email, then fired the intern that had forwarded it all over hell and creation. Sending the email was inappropriate in the first place, but forwarding it all over the place is even more so. Here’s a giant **FUCK YOU** to Kay Bailey Hutchison, you cock-gobbling\* sorrority girl washout. \*I don’t want to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708/26 "2003-07-25T02:32:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neuroman \* > If I were running that office, I’d have reprimanded Kelly for sending a stupid email, then fired the intern that had forwarded it all over hell and creation. Sending the email was inappropriate in the first place, but forwarding it all over the place is even more so. I’m sorry, maybe it’s just me, but if a coworker was making threats about destroying my career (yes, even if he said he was just thinking about it), you bet I’d at least seriously consider reporting it to HR. I don’t give a damn if I’d dated him and he sent it from his home E-mail, he brought the workplace into it. ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708/27 "2003-07-25T02:47:19Z")
Hey, have you guys seen what Mr. Jonas L. Blank was up to at [Skadden Arps this summer?](http://www.nylawyer.com/news/03/06/062003b.html). Full email at [Snopes (natch).](http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/skadden.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708/28 "2003-07-25T04:16:57Z")
**neuroman** , I disagree. This guy’s training up to be a politician. Politicians need to be, well… politic. The single most important skill for a politician is “how not to look bad in public.” This is clearly a skill this guy does not posses, and as such is not qualified for his position. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flames-of-young-love-on-capitol-hill/190708.md?page=1)