A modest proposal: Everyone send Joseph Welch's quote to DeLay's office

[Richardo]

(Also posted yesterday in the Lounge, 'cause, why not?)

Your e-mail should consist of just this quote:

"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

A few tens of thousands of those would surely get into the news. The best part: It responds to EVERYTHING that scumbag stands for.

You can send an e-mail through the following site:

http://www.majorityleader.gov/CONTACT.ASP?a=form

OR:

Congressman Tom DeLay

Majority Leader Office
H-107 The Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
p. [phone]
f. [phone]

Congressional Office
242 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
p. [phone]
f. [phone]

District Office
10701 Corporate Drive ,Suite 118
Stafford, TX 77477
p. [phone]
f. [phone]

I sent it yesterday - who else will join me in this futile gesture? :)

My e-mail:

First Name: Richard(o)
Last Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:
Phone:
Email: _______@___.net

Comments:
"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

-Joseph Welch

[Dhalgren]

1. Did it. It felt good.

[katinmn]

2. ok, but first tell me who Joseph Welch is.

I want to know who I'm quoting!

[tanyev]

4. From the McCarthy witch hunts.

[htuttle]

6. Here (link)

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1389/33743.html

[Richardo]

7. Defense lawyer in the McCarthy red-baiting hearings

Here's a link. http://rpuchalsky.home.att.net/mccarthy.html

Summary: Welch calls Joseph McCarthy on his shit. Turned the popular opinion in the country around, and exposed McCarthy's efforts to expose "Communists" in the government as the witch-hunt it was.

[katinmn]

10. Got it. Sent.

:kick:

[quaoar]

3. But

Tom DeLay has no sense of decency.

[Richardo]

8. OK, so it's a rhetorical question.

:)

[Ken065]

5. I like this.

I think I'll fax it to his office in 72-point type.

[pnorman]

9. Here's a link to that quote by Joseph Welch:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html

pnorman

[KalicoKitty]

Sent!

:bounce:

[KalicoKitty]

11. Sent!

:bounce:

[babylonsister]

12. Great idea, happily done!