I somehow got on the NRSC's email list. I got an email today from John Ensign decrying the horrible new Dem congress and their evil antiworker, protax policies. All of it was standard uninteresting stuff, but what caught my eye was this bold request for support:

"We have set a goal to raise $40,000 online by the end of March. Your participation is critical."

I know it's not really campaign season yet, but there were individual campaigns last cycle who proposed and then exceded online targets 10 times that, in a single day. Is there some kind of strategy in asking for an amount from the whole country that must be in John Ensign's couch cushions?

Is this one of those motivational things: your therapist tells you to set easily achievable goals, to improve your self confidence? Maybe it's just for some plane tickets to get the hell out a Dodge? Trying to make themselves look more poor and vulnerable so Schumer gets overconfident? What? Anyway, I found that amusing. I'll try to attach the rest of the letter below the fold.