[Peace-discuss] senators who voted against the $800 B +++ bailout bill...

[C. G. Estabrook]

As usual, the poets get there first:

   "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

   --Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)



Robert Naiman wrote:
> Even if the bill passes, and even if every letter were exactly the same as
> what the House rejected on Monday, I think it would be a mistake to say that
> protests from the public didn't make any difference.
> 
> The way that this goes through - if it goes through - affects the next thing
> that comes down the pike. If the thing gets beat up a lot on the way, it
> affects what they propose and do in the future.
> 
> When the Clinton Administration asked Congress for $18 billion to bailout the
> IMF in 1998, a left-right coalition in Washington fought a long battle in
> opposition, even though it was pretty clear that the fix was in and it would
> pass eventually, which it finally did, after many months.
> 
> At the beginning of the fight, someone asked Rubin when they would come back
> for more money for the IMF. In about five years, he said. That was 1998. They
> have not been back since.
> 
> As my friend Sam Husseini said when organizing a protest against the 
> impending US invasion of Afghanistan, "We're always fighting against the
> *next* war."
>