Speaking of Bernie Sanders, he just did something really wonderful. Bernie Sanders Is Skipping Netanyahu's Speech to Congress Feb 9, 2015 10:50 AM CST Introducing the first U.S. senator, and the first potential Democratic presidential candidate, to stake a position against the Netanyahu speech. http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-09/bernie-sanders-is-skipping-netanyahu-s-speech-to-congress
Bloomberg slyly notes that "He's definitely the first Netanyahu-boycotter to have spent time working on a kibbutz in Israel," which is a cute way of saying that he's the first Jewish Member of Congress to announce that he's definitely boycotting the speech. The Hill is keeping a whip list of Democrats who have announced that they're boycotting the speech: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/232160-whip-list-dems-skipping-netanyahu-speech I'm pretty sure that Ellison's delay in announcing is strategic; he will wait until his letter closes on Thursday (asking that the speech be cancelled) and if there is no change in the situation by then he will announce that he is not going. Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:15 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, February 9, 2015 2:51 pm, raghu wrote: >> > I assume that you intend to be consistent in your use of the term >> > "Democratic party" to refer to the DNC and not use it simply to >> disparage >> > someone with a vague (real or imagined) affiliation with the Democratic >> > party? Say someone who likes Bernie Sanders for instance? >> >> The degree of disparagement is proportional to the degree of enthusiasm. >> > > > > Yes, that's what I thought. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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