[Peace-discuss] Don't send a Democrat to the House

[Karen Aram]

Carl, yes 33 Democrats, but 225 Republicans voted to roll back rather meager Dodd-Frank restrictions on the banking industry. 


> On May 22, 2018, at 19:25, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> [Jeffrey St Clair] 33 Democrats just voted to roll back rather meager Dodd-Frank restrictions on the banking industry.
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>> On May 22, 2018, at 8:44 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> Mort--
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>> I have no brief for Davis. (The way to prevent abortion includes providing single-payer healthcare, child allowances, housing & education - not just unfunding it.)
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>> 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?”
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>> On war issues, I don’t think the Democratic party should be given control of the House.
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>> So I‘ll vote in the most effective way to discourage the election of a Democrat in the 13th IL CD.
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>> That means voting for the Republican candidate, rather than abstaining. —CGE
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>>> On May 22, 2018, at 7:59 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>>> Carl,
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>>> 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!). 
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>>> Neither candidate inspires confidence (in me). 
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>>> The obvious choice is not to vote for either. 
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>>>> On May 22, 2018, at 7:28 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>>>> Which is more likely to hesitate at Deep State war-mongering, a Republican House, or a Democratic one?
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>>>> 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…”
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>>>> The Democrats' panic at the threat that Trump would abandon Obama's war provocations produced Russiagate. 
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>>>> They should not be rewarded for that with control of the House.
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>>>> —CGE
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