[Peace-discuss] Rodney Davis voted yes on the Amash-Conyers amendment

[David Green]

To be honest, I got Tiresias from Sophocles mixed up with the Fool from King Lear. Shakespeare has always been Greek to me.


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> From: Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
>To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>; Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> 
>Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Rodney Davis voted yes on the Amash-Conyers amendment
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>Ah! A message, perhaps?
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>"...I know 'tis from Cordelia, 
>Who hath most fortunately been inform'd 
>Of his obscured course - and shall find time 
>From this enormous state, seeking to give 
>Losses their remedies!"
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>You're mixing your plays to good effect, David. I hope it's true. 
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>Old Tiresias
>No-one half so breezy as,
>Half so free and easy as
>Old Tiresias...
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>On Jul 24, 2013, at 9:39 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Gollin's daughter, Cordelia, used to stand with us on N. Prospect before the Iraq war, and was a member of the radical cheerleaders. Perhaps she will be his foreign policy advisor. Or so Tiresias might portend.
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>> DG
>> 
>> From: Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
>> To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> 
>> Cc: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> 
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 9:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Rodney Davis voted yes on the Amash-Conyers amendment
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>> And if David Gill were our Congressman, he would have voted no (i.e., with the Obama administration).
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>> I have little doubt that both of the Democrats who want to run against Davis next year - the organization candidate, Callis, and the 'outsider,' Gollin - would also have voted with the administration. I also doubt either will answer if asked, but I'd love to be proved wrong. 
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>> Perhaps sufficient pressure on Davis can turn him into a secure anti-war vote, like his predecessor. But I doubt that, too.  
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>> --CGE
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>> On Jul 24, 2013, at 8:14 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
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>>> so we have one thing to be happy with him about.
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>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/amash-amendment-roll-call-vote_n_3648737.html
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