[Peace-discuss] The People Have Spoken: Americans want Bachmann off the Intelligence Committee

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Just as McCarthy "went too far." But the Army deserved the pillorying it got. 


On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

> I'm all for trashing US policy on Iran and Syria, as you know. But we
> can do both.
> 
> I think the Bachmann scandal is strategic. It's like the Army-McCarthy
> hearings. She "went too far." She hates Muslims "more than she is
> supposed to."
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Carl G. Estabrook
> <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> This may be a matter of straining at a (Minnesotan) gnat-ivist & swallowing a (Kenyan) camelopard if we don't go directly after Obama's murderous policies toward Syria & Iran.
>> 
>> Obama, having ripped up the Constitution on war-making (& other matters) beyond his predecessors, is ready to expand his Mideast killing on whatever schedule is seen to benefit the 1% (and his electoral chances).
>> 
>> This week we've already had an executive "finding" that supports civil war in Syria and a lop-sided vote in Congress "punishing" Iran. The child-killer in the White House can increase the killing at will. --CGE
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> The Daily Kos diary made the rec list - something that has happened
>>> 3-4 times since 2006 when I began writing there. 273 recommended it,
>>> 146 shared it. The vote in the poll was:
>>> 
>>> "I'd like my Representative to advocate for Michele Bachmann's removal
>>> from the House Intelligence Committee.
>>> 
>>> Agree
>>> 98%     708 votes
>>> Disagree
>>> 1%      9 votes
>>> 717 votes"
>>> 
>>> At Truthout, 2,300 "liked," 178 tweeted, 148 shared.
>>> 
>>> http://truth-out.org/news/item/10653-former-us-officials-call-for-bachmann-to-be-replaced-on-intelligence-committee
>>> 
>>> At Huffington Post, 1,032 recommended, 185 shared.
>>> 
>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/former-us-officials-call-_b_1728771.html
>>> 
>>> The masses get this. There's a limit to how many people we can engage
>>> on what kind of waiver the President should have on the latest round
>>> of Iran sanctions. But the masses understand Bachmann in a visceral
>>> way. She is the Mean Girl, the Fourth Heather, the Slobodan Milosevic
>>> of Minnesota, who rides to political power by bullying the weak and
>>> the marginalized. They want her to be punished. They want her off the
>>> Intelligence Committee.
>>> 
>>> Not to press our advantage on this is to leave money on the table...
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Robert Naiman
>>> Policy Director
>>> Just Foreign Policy
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>>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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> Just Foreign Policy
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