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YAY!
Good for you!
How about getting the rest of the dems and indy’s to do the same?
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To paraphrase Bibi, no Democrat should attend because to do so would lend credibility that this wholly partisan disaster is in fact non-partisan.
And for every one who does, Boehner and McConnell have to find some intern to fill the seat…then again, I suppose there are a lot of very willing young thought leaders among the conservatives to garner a chamber full of zealots, madly cheering at Bibi’s every suggestion of replacing diplomacy with slaughter.
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Senators Feinstein and Durbin? After that very public FU from Bibi, do you understand that you need to take a stand?
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I HEar thEY’re FILLINg eMPTY seats WITH carDBOARd cutOUTs of Ronald Reagan [/libturd speculation]
http://www.therepublicanexpress.com/v/vspfiles/photos/KOR7535-2T.jpg
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More please. It’s not enough for just one or two of the Dems to find themselves with a sudden case of balls. There needs to be solidarity and a unified message on this.
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That’s ok. The more staged and propagandist it looks, the better.
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But then the focus story would still be on who didn’t attend, rather than the actual speech. Bad PR for Netanyahu.
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Actually, I read this morning somewhere that 28 Democrats have said they won’t attend. Otherwise, I agree. There shouldn’t be a Democratic ass in any seat in the chamber.
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Mazel Tov Senator Kaine. You came to the correct conclusion. Not stooping down to Netanyahu’s level and being a party to this sham is a wise decision indeed.
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Good on Kaine! Is there any list out there of those who’ve pledged not to attend? If not, can we create one?
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Yeah, I’d been thinking stone-faced Dem staffers filling the seats ( the more Jews the better). But since Bibi’s cinematographer will manage to do what he wants with it regardless, you’re probably right. And with even the “MSM” covering this show with increasingly ill-disguised derision, rapt standing o’s probably won’t come off the way Bibi’s thinking they will.
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Can we call this the Potemkin session of Congress?
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Yup; and I hope there’ll also be some focus on the actual substance: the fact that he’s a documented liar wrt Iran’s nuclear capability (thanks, Guardian!), just as he was wrt Iraq’s. Cover the speech as a show, and as bs. The coverage is getting sufficiently gimlet-eyed that I actually have some hope that it’ll happen.
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I’m pretty confident there’ll be more, thanks to this latest from Bibi. I read the “wouldn’t want to appear partisan” reply in Haaretz at three in the morning and my reaction probably woke the neighbors; I can’t imagine most Dems didn’t react pretty much the same way.
And @counter_coulter, yeah, I’d like to see that list too. It’ll let us see who we still need to call about this.
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It’s getting harder and harder to distinguish the rhetoric of Isreal’s Netanyahu, and Russia’s Vladmir Putin. The fascist right wing loves them both so much because they both taunt Obama and the US, and they both govern (dictate) to serve their own personal, rather than their nation’s respective best interests. Putin and Netanyahu are both craving a war so bad, they’re willing to start a war just to prove their detractors wrong that war is not inevitable. Children with power will behave in destructive ways.
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Sadly, so true!