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

[John W.]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:50 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

As usual, the poets get there first:
>
>  "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
>
>  --Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)


Yes, I'm sure none of this ever occurred to anyone before 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."
>
>
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