ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Please spread the word and let me know if you participated so I can alert BostonJoe and the rest of the BooActivists.
Excerpts from BostonJoe's diary below the fold...
In a effort to blunt the effect of Murtha's serious call for a withdrawal of the troops, Republicans hurriedly offered a sham Bill on the issue that had almost no support. During debate on the issue, Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), a freshman Rep., called Murtha a coward:
A few minutes ago I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp, Ohio Representative from the 88th district in the House of Representatives. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.
Schmidt's comments were heckled on the floor of our Congress, and she was forced to withdraw them from the record. But she and state Rep. Bubp deserve to know that we were watching, and that we won't stand for neo-McCarthyism, where heroic opponents of this flawed war are discredited as cowards and traitors.
You can help. Please print off one of the protest forms below and send them to the offices of Rep. Schmidt and Rep. Bubp. Take the time to write a personalized note on your form, explaining that the "chicken hawk" tactics of the Republican party will not be tolerated.
Let's bury their offices with "chicken hawk" feathers, so that the next time they feel like squawking in public, they will remember that we are watching them.
Let's create a firestorm and support Operation Yellow Feather!
[UPDATE DAY TWO]
It appears now that there is a split between Schmidt and her source for the cowardly comments, state Rep. Danny Bubp. (R-Ohio).
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Danny Bubp, a freshman state representative who is a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, told The Enquirer that he never mentioned Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., by name when talking with Schmidt, and he would never call a fellow Marine a coward.
Schmidt, feeling the heat, has done what chickhawks do best....gone AWOL...skipping two public appearances on Monday.
Click here or full details of Operation Yellow Feather: Day Two action
Send your Yellow Feathers today and let Schmidt know that she should shut that big pie hole of hers.
[UPDATE Wed 11/23, Day three]
Over the past three days, we have seen this protest spread like wildfire across the lefty blogosphere. Several large blog communities joined forces to say "Enough is Enough!" to the chicken hawks.
The coalition has grown and now contians:
Daily Kos, Booman Trib, My Left Wing, myDD, Political Cortex, AfterDowningSt.org, EPluribus Media and numerous individual Blogs.
Since it looks like Rep Schmidt is on the run we're moving on to target other chickhawks.
One of today's main targets is Anal Cyst Boy..Rush Limbaugh for comments made about Murtha on his Monday show.
Check out Yellow Feather Central at Booman for details
Also trip over to KOS to rec up today's diary would be appreciated
Thanks
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