His colleague, Sen. Thomas Dodd of Connecticut, former chair of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (father of the incumbent Chris Dodd), did make it into a song, by Phil Ochs:

Well, I'm just a typical American boy
From a typical American town
I believe in God and Senator Dodd
And keeping old Castro down.

Dodd was a rabid anti-Communist, but also a major supporter of civil rights legislation. And I believe he first made a name for himself as a zealous prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. So much for simplification.

Maybe Joe was lucky that his name was hard to rhyme...

Aloha,
Mark