Democrats Go to War »
Posted By Progressive 2 months ago in Political Opinion
With the public option dead for now, the left is launching attack ads against centrist and Blue Dog Democrats—and Rahm Emanuel, the poster child for Netroots betrayal.
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slate2 months ago
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“If Obama takes the public option off the table, we’re looking at a civil war within the Democratic Party,”
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Oh cool but first, let me toss a bad of popcorn in the microwave.
A majority party of 'splinter' groups is fun to watch.
Too bad Democrats hate conservatives, even within their own party.
I wish this party as well as the left has wished the Republicans and like them I will sit in glee watching their implosion. It sure is different when it's happening to you huh?-
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Natureboy2 months ago
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I think you're missing something here, Slate.
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The friction over healthcare in the Dem party is not as much about liberal vs conservative as it is about legit versus bought. This whole drama is about whether working people or insurance companies will get their way, and there are a number of democrats getting their pockets lined in return for torpedoing MEANINGFUL reform.
The schaudenfreude is misplaced - you have the same issues in the Republican party. -
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hyperbola2 months ago
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Oh Rahm Emanuel is exactly the right target.
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As an Israeli soldier and member of a zionist terrorist family, his first loyalty is not to America. As a former member of "wall street" financial firms, he is more interested in serving corrupt oligarchs than average Americans.
We saw him push "pro-Iraq-war" candidates on the Democrats and now we see him pushing "profits for corrupt healthcare business". He is just one more of the israel-firsters that we have to confront if we want to recover democracy in America.
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hyperbola2 months ago
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Maybe not. This may be the first step in getting israel-first ultra-zionists out of our political parties. Something we should never have let happen in the first place.
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JFK Was Enraged at ‘Zionist Control’ Effected by Campaign Contributions
http://mondoweiss.net/2008/07/jfk-was-enraged-at-z...
Back in the shtetl the two highest values in Jewish life were wealth and learning. Well I’m pitting the learning against the wealth here. I’m going to keep on my theme of Jewish wealth in politics, inasmuch as it distorts our policy in the Middle East.
Last year Seymour Hersh, god bless him, openly spoke of “Jewish money” when he criticized the push to attack Iran. And my correspondent just sent me a selection from Hersh’s 1991 book “The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy”:
“… [Governor Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut said that in 1960,] ‘I told Kennedy I was going to get in touch with Abe Feinberg, who I thought was a key Jew. I arranged a meeting [with Kennedy] in Feinberg’s apartment in the Hotel Pierre and we invited all the leading Jews.’ About twenty prominent businessmen and financiers showed up....
...“Kennedy was anything but grateful the next morning in describing the session to Charles L. Bartlett, a newspaper columnist and close friend. He had driven to Bartlett’s home in northwest Washington and dragged his friend on a walk, where he recounted a much different version of the meeting the night before. ‘As an American citizen he was outraged,’ Bartlett recalled, ‘to have a Zionist group come to him and say: “We know your campaign is in trouble. We’re willing to pay your bills if you’ll let us have control of your Middle East policy.’” Kennedy, as a presidential candidate, also resented the crudity with which he’d been approached. ‘They wanted control,’ he angrily told Bartlett.....
JFK wanted a nuclear-free near east with inspectors at Dimona and a resolution to the Palestinian refugee problem (which would be a policy based on American interests or perhaps even regional or international interests). I don’t think his patrons liked those ideas much. they wanted a policy based on Israel’s interests. and as they say, when you pay the piper, you call the tune.
To which I’d add: Israel got nukes. Nukes seem to have played a role in causing the ‘67 War. Now Iran wants nukes; and this time around the U.S. is contemplating military attacks. Maybe it’s time to get nukes out of the Middle East? Isn’t Dimona a bargaining chip?
....Reminds you of Obama and AIPAC, doesn’t it? I wonder how secretly ticked off Obama is. Of course the only religious obeisance anyone mentions apropos of Kennedy is his speech to the Houston Protestant ministers in ‘60. Slowly but surely, knowledge of the Israel lobby is growing.
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