<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">But the Democrats as a party could have stopped it, had they wanted to. They didn’t.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Which <i class="">party</i> should run the Congress? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 22, 2018, at 9:44 PM, Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com" class="">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Carl, yes 33 Democrats, but 225 Republicans voted to roll back rather meager Dodd-Frank restrictions on the banking industry. <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 22, 2018, at 19:25, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156535093661518&set=a.45670806517.69941.612626517&type=3&theater" class="">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156535093661518&set=a.45670806517.69941.612626517&type=3&theater</a><br class=""><br class="">[Jeffrey St Clair] 33 Democrats just voted to roll back rather meager Dodd-Frank restrictions on the banking industry.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 22, 2018, at 8:44 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Mort--<br class=""><br class="">I have no brief for Davis. (The way to prevent abortion includes providing single-payer healthcare, child allowances, housing & education - not just unfunding it.)<br class=""><br class="">How do you stand on my real (not rhetorical) question: "Which is more likely to hesitate at Deep State war-mongering, a Republican House, or a Democratic one?”<br class=""><br class="">On war issues, I don’t think the Democratic party should be given control of the House.<br class=""><br class="">So I‘ll vote in the most effective way to discourage the election of a Democrat in the 13th IL CD.<br class=""><br class="">That means voting for the Republican candidate, rather than abstaining. —CGE<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 22, 2018, at 7:59 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Carl,<br class=""><br class="">I find your arguments for voting for Davis truly bizarre, contorted. On foreign issues Davis will take typical administration positions [e.g., on Cuba, Venezuela, Israel-Palestine, Iran, N. Korea, Ukraine, Honduras, S. America, …empire and militarism,…] , given the evidence available. On domestic social issues Davis is worse than most of the Democrats (but against abortion, a stance with which you no doubt agree! Aha!). <br class=""><br class="">Neither candidate inspires confidence (in me). <br class=""><br class="">The obvious choice is not to vote for either. <br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 22, 2018, at 7:28 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Which is more likely to hesitate at Deep State war-mongering, a Republican House, or a Democratic one?<br class=""><br class="">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…”<br class=""><br class="">The Democrats' panic at the threat that Trump would abandon Obama's war provocations produced Russiagate. <br class=""><br class="">They should not be rewarded for that with control of the House.<br class=""><br class="">—CGE<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace-discuss mailing list<br class="">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace-discuss mailing list<br class="">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace-discuss mailing list<br class="">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace-discuss mailing list<br class="">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>