When Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse accused Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele of "betting against our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan" after Steele criticized the Afghanistan war, Woodhouse wasn't just attacking Michael Steele; Woodhouse was attacking me and every American who is against the war.
As people who care about *issues*, it's not in our interest for the DNC to police the boundaries of the other side. If a third of the Republicans in the House had voted for the McGovern-Obey-Jones amendment, reflecting the 35% of the Republicans in the country who think the war is not worth its costs, the amendment would have passed. Instead, 5% of the Republicans in the House did so. With his attack on Steele, Woodhouse pushed House Republicans further away from the three-fifths of House Democrats - including Speaker Pelosi, and Representatives Honda and Wasserman Schultz, the two DNC Vice Chairs who are Members of Congress - who support a timetable for withdrawal. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/on-afghanistan-michael-st_b_640976.html http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/09-10 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/9/124650/3660 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/641 -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
