Nancy Pelosi
Sit or stand but we cannot be silent for victims of gun violence - we need to take action. #NoBillNoBreak
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Truest statement of the week
In April, I visited some of the almost 5,000 troops that President Obama has put back in Iraq, and I witnessed a recurring theme: We have a military plan to defeat the Islamic State — and, as initial gains in Fallujah this week demonstrate, it’s going well in many respects — but we have yet to articulate a political plan to ensure Iraq’s long-term stability.
Sometimes it’s impossible to tell whether it’s 2007 or 2016. The battle plans I hear from our commanders in Iraq today are the same ones I heard at the beginning of the surge, down to the same cities and tribal alliances. My question is: How will this time be different? The silence is deafening.
-- US House Rep. Seth Moulton, "Get Ready For Another Iraq War" (THE WASHINGTON POST).
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Everything's done but the editorial.
Ava and I finished our TV piece on Sunday.
I am not working Mondays on Third, I have no problem taking the blame for that.
I'm tired and I'm tired of it not being finished on Sunday.
So I've stopped working on Mondays on Third.
We've been working this morning and everything's done but the editorial.
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First, we thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:
The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
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Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
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Trina of Trina's Kitchen,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
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And what did we come up with:
- Truest statement of the week
- Editorial: That do nothing Congress
- TV: What it can say about humanity
- Congress and Veterans
- We told you Hillary was packing on the pounds
- Tweet of the week
- So that just leaves Jill?
- But what about HOMELAND?
- Filipovic Lusts After Hillary
- This edition's playlist
- Jill Stein Twitter
- Senate VA Committee: Senate Must Act on Veterans F...
- DEATH WITH DIGNITY ADVOCATE DR. LAWRENCE EGBERT DI...
Editorial: That do nothing Congress
Last week, Nancy Pelosi and other useless members of the House of Representatives were congratulating themselves on their stunt: a sit-in.
Glenn Greenwald made a solid point.
The sit-in was for a racist watch list.
That's also a valid argument.
Glenn Greenwald made a solid point.
Glenn Greenwald
Of all things Dems could've but didn't do a sit-in for (end Iraq War, punish Wall St & torturers), they choose this:
The sit-in was for a racist watch list.
That is nothing on Democrat should have gotten behind.
Others pointed out that the House Dems were doing a sit-in for this when they had avoided sitting in on so many issues.
- #DemsNeverSat against Israel's 2014 Gaza slaughter. @SenWarren, @alfranken and @SenSherrodBrown voted for it. http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/dead_gazans_missing_from_senate_endorsement_of_israeli_invasion_20140720 …
- #DemsNeverSat against systemic disinvestment, poverty, school closures, health care access, etc
- #DemsNeverSat against crimes against humanity. In fact, they championed the weapons sales.
- #DemsNeverSat to protest the most corrupt presidential candidate in US history.
- #DemsNeverSat #NoBillNoBreak Glad ppl r as disgusted w/ @TheDemocrats dog & pony show as I am & see it 4 what it is
- #DemsNeverSat to stop the Iraq War. Or apologized for never trying.
- #DemsNeverSat to stop Hillary making arms deals w/ countries who donated $$$ to her Foundation
- #DemsNeverSat as black children were disproportionately expelled in schools on pipeline 2 prison .@repjohnlewis
- #DemsNeverSat when Flint kids were drinking what looks like sewerage
- #DemsNeverSat for any other cause when it wasn't an election year #NoBillNoBreak
- #DemsNeverSat in protest of the drone war's extrajudicial executions of suspects without due process or a trial. #NoBillNoBreak
- #DemsNeverSat in protest of poverty, the war on drugs, racist policing & mass incarceration of black/brown communities. #NoBillNoBreak
- #DemsNeverSat when someone under FBI investigation ran for president
- #DemsNeverSat against the use of sanctions on Iraq which killed hundreds of thousands of women & children.
- #DemsNeverSat to oppose the terror watch list, which they're pretty much embracing right now.
- #DemsNeverSat to demand a new water system in flint.
- #DemsNeverSat to stop the Obama administration from deporting 2.5+ million people.
- #DemsNeverSat while private prison corporations were cutting backdoor deals with state & municipal govt's encouraging more incarceration.
- #DemsNeverSat for extended unemployment benefits
- #DemsNeverSat against Wall Street bailouts
- #DemsNeverSat while racist police forces were getting surplus military hardware to use in communities of color in the US.
- And for some tough but fair criticism, check out #DemsNeverSat
- #DemsNeverSat while Israel was slaughtering civilians in Gaza. Decided to give them more military aid.
- #DemsNeverSat against the repeal of the Voting Rights Act
- #DemsNeverSat for universal healthcare
- #DemsNeverSat in opposition to NSA collecting data on U.S. citizens and sharing with local law enforcement
- #DemsNeverSat for mandatory paid maternity leave
- #DemsNeverSat to raise the minimum wage
- #DemsNeverSat to stop the War in Iraq
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تیاررا 
charlie 
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Mike Isaacson That's also a valid argument.
Our argument?
Sit-ins are for the powerless.
Sit-ins are for the people.
How dare members of Congress act as though they're powerless when they are most definitely not.
This was a publicity stunt.
Equally true, speak to Medea Benjamin.
Ask her what happens these days when she only raises a sign in a Congressional hearing.
In other words, House Dems won't support the people's right to protest but they will gladly stage a (useless) sit-in on their own.
It's embarrassing.
And shameful when you grasp that Congress has failed to provide proper oversight to the still ongoing Iraq
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