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Peacetrain

(22,875 posts) Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:14 PM Oct 2015

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"Sir , have you no shame?"

"Have you no sense of decency?"

We are reliving the McCarthy trials...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch

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"Sir , have you no shame?" (Original Post) Peacetrain Oct 2015 OP

The GOP has had no sense of decency for two generations or longer.... villager Oct 2015 #1

The republican party... went down the rabbit hole.. Peacetrain Oct 2015 #2

IF they ever had any it's long gone. nt Raine Oct 2015 #3

Here it is. longship Oct 2015 #4

Thanks.. Peacetrain Oct 2015 #6

This is what happens BootinUp Oct 2015 #5

Fuck the "sir" shit RoccoR5955 Oct 2015 #7

Well, I wouldn't go that far. Nobody's career is being ruined, nobody's being blacklisted.. X_Digger Oct 2015 #8

villager

(26,001 posts)

1. The GOP has had no sense of decency for two generations or longer....

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:16 PM

Oct 2015

The question is, how many more will wake up to that obvious truth tonight?

Peacetrain

(22,875 posts)

2. The republican party... went down the rabbit hole..

Reply to villager (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:17 PM

Oct 2015

They are without shame

Raine

(30,540 posts)

3. IF they ever had any it's long gone. nt

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:20 PM

Oct 2015

longship

(40,416 posts)

4. Here it is.

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:23 PM

Oct 2015

It is a great moment.

BTW, Joseph Welch went on to an acting career of sorts. He played the judge in Anatomy of a Murder, an absolutely awesome film.

Peacetrain

(22,875 posts)

6. Thanks..

Reply to longship (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:25 PM

Oct 2015

BootinUp

(47,143 posts)

5. This is what happens

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:25 PM

Oct 2015

when the greedy 0.01 percent are controlling the majority party in Congress.

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)

7. Fuck the "sir" shit

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:55 PM

Oct 2015

he doesn't deserve it.

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)

8. Well, I wouldn't go that far. Nobody's career is being ruined, nobody's being blacklisted..

Reply to Peacetrain (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:57 PM

Oct 2015

It's a bunch of clownish blowhards making themselves look stupid.

To compare this sideshow with the very real shit that happened with McCarthy's witch hunt? Yeah, no.

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