[Peace-discuss] Don't send a Democrat to the House

[Robert Naiman]

All you have to know about Rodney Davis is this sentence:

"Sir, I knew Tim Johnson, and you are no Tim Johnson."



Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Robert, while I commend you for acquiring those promises from Democrats,
> the fact that they are personal promises. and they aren’t willing to “put
> it in writing” so to speak on their website etc., not that it’s a guarantee
> either, it doesn’t make one feel anymore secure or confident.
>
> While I generally agree with your statement in relation to “those choosing
> not to vote,” I no longer support the whole electoral process as anything
> more than an exercise in futility and distraction, the reason I posted the
> Chris Hedges article in the first place, and especially when the
> distinction between candidates being little different.
>
> However, given the abysmal record of Rodney Davis, almost anyone would
> likely be better and it would be a true miscarriage of justice if he were
> to be re-elected.
>
>
> On May 22, 2018, at 23:25, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> I promise that if Betsy Dirksen Londrigan is elected to the House, she
> will vote against unauthorized U.S. participation in the Saudi war in
> Yemen. She and her staff have given me personal commitments to this effect.
> I would not be supporting her so strongly otherwise.
>
> I promise that if Democrats retake the House, we will get more votes in
> the House on war and peace. Just now the House Rules Committee blocked
> floor consideration of Rep. Khanna's amendment to the National Defense
> Authorization Act that would have prohibited U.S. refueling of Saudi
> warplanes bombing Yemen. If Dems retake the House, Jim McGovern will be
> chair of the Rules Committee. It's going to be an anti-war amendment
> Jamboree.
>
> I'm totally in favor of giving Democrats a hard time on war and peace. But
> ultra-left electoral abstentionism hasn't done squat and isn't going to do
> squat to give Democrats a hard time on war and peace. Democratic
> politicians care about ultra-left electoral abstentionism like the ocean
> cares about the discharge of a squirt gun. Some people may find ultra-left
> electoral abstentionism emotionally satisfying personally, but then we
> should understand that what is driving them is a selfish personal desire
> for self-actualization, not an informed desire to make the world less
> unjust.
>
>
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> (202) 448-2898 x1
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>> What would it mean to have “given up on electoral politics”? And why do
>> you think I’d done it?
>>
>> But I have yet to hear an answer to the question, 'Which is to be
>> preferred in 2019, a House controlled by the Democrat or by the Republican
>> party, and why?'
>>
>> Your answer should be well-spelt, grammatical, and contain the term
>> ‘Russiagate’…
>>
>> —CGE
>>
>> On May 22, 2018, at 10:43 PM, David Enstrom via Peace-discuss <
>> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>
>> Bizzare and contorted about sums this string up bery nicely.  Carl I
>> thought you and given up on electoral politics.  I guess I was mistaken.
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 8:28 PM Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
>> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Which is more likely to hesitate at Deep State war-mongering, a
>>> Republican House, or a Democratic one?
>>>
>>> John Pilger wrote in 2016, “The CIA, Pentagon generals, and the pro-war
>>> New York Times demand Trump not be elected. These tribunes of 'perpetual
>>> war' are terrified that the multi-billion-dollar business of war by which
>>> the United States maintains its dominance will be undermined if Trump does
>>> a deal with Russian president Putin, then with China’s president Xi
>>> Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of the world’s great power talking
>>> peace – however unlikely – would be the blackest farce were the issues not
>>> so dire…”
>>>
>>> The Democrats' panic at the threat that Trump would abandon Obama's war
>>> provocations produced Russiagate.
>>>
>>> They should not be rewarded for that with control of the House.
>>>
>>> —CGE
>>> _______________________
>>
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