OK, folks, can we work with this one? It's time to take back the House of Representatives. Take a look at this:
Courtesy Newsweek Perspectives May 16, 2005:
"I've always urged members to travel, to have this type of intercourse with the world." House Speaker Dennis Hastert, defending Tom DeLay and the congressional policy on corporate-sponsored trips.
Picture it now: Huge billboard featuring a photo of Hastert and DeLay standing on the tarmac with a Lear jet in the background, corporate logo prominently displayed.
Tagline: "I've always urged members to travel"
Same setting, but with your local Repug representative in the photo with Delay
Tagline: "Radioactive" or "Who has your Congressman been traveling with?"
Can't we organize fundraising efforts to pay for our local Democratic committees to blanket the country coast to coast with billboards linking Delay to Republican representatives? I'd donate $500 for one with Hastert and DeLay on I 90 or I 294 right near O'Hare airport. Or better yet on the inbound Kennedy Expressway between O"Hare and downtown Chicago in plain site of thousands of visiting business travelers and conventioneers.
Anyone with me?