\t\t\t\tIt’s easy to laugh at the LA City Council for passing a resolution opposing a unilateral war against Iraq when nobody’s proposed such a thing, and the Angelenos invite this kind of ridicule routinely. But more interesting is looking at what the vote breakdown says about the perpetual war between the four leading Democratic Party machines who routinely compete for power in LA. <\/p>\n
The largest and strongest machine is Berman\/Waxman, funded by Hollywood and the rich Jewish business interests Warren Beaty’s Bulworth called “the big Jews.” In Congress, Berman, Waxman, and their boy Adam Schiff voted in favor of H J Res 114, Authorizing Use of Force in Iraq, while the Nate Holden\/Maxine Waters machine voted against it, as did the Hispanic machines controlling Hilda Solis, Julie Roybal-Allard, and Xavier Becerra.<\/p>\n
The protection of Israel from Iraq and other enemies has long been a wedge issue splitting the Jewish machine from the black and Hispanic machines, and this vote signalled the split is still there, and possibly growing larger. While Hollywood Jews aren’t yet ready to start voting Republican, don’t be surprised of the ethnic machines find fundraising harder in the next cycle.<\/p>\n
Votes on H J Res 114<\/a><\/p>\n California Congressmembers<\/a><\/p>\n LA Times report of City Council vote supporting Saddam:<\/a><\/p>\n “Thank you!” screamed an elderly woman in a canary-yellow T-shirt as the audience erupted in wild cheers. Another demonstrator, sporting a “No Blood for Oil” message across her shirt, blew kisses at the council members.<\/p>\n “It’s very bold of the city to do this,” said Fred Greissing, 42, a music video director who had slashed holes in his clothes, roasted them on his barbecue and splattered them with fake blood for the occasion. “Local government is easy to reach, closer to the people. I mean, I don’t think we could have walked into the back of the White House and done this.”<\/p>\n “Are they Americans?” Cararie, 63, said incredulously. “These are a bunch of showboating infidels.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s easy to laugh at the LA City Council for passing a resolution opposing a unilateral war against Iraq when nobody’s proposed such a thing, and the Angelenos invite this kind of ridicule routinely. But more interesting is looking at what the vote breakdown says about the perpetual war between the four leading Democratic Party … Continue reading “Are they Americans?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-zN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}