[lbo-talk] Hoyer beats Murtha...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 17 09:54:25 PST 2006


On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote:


> On 11/17/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>> > Do we care?
>> No.
>> Should we?
>> No.
>>
>> Carrol
>
> This absolutist, sectarian stand would see no difference between
> George McGovern and John Stennis. Or recognize the existence back then
> of anti-war Republicans like Mark Hatfield. Radical left Jesuit Blase
> Bonpane in L.A., with personal experience in Guatemala in the 60's,
> has said that Hatfield was one of the Senators who would always open
> his doors on the Vietnam war and later during the debates over Contra
> aid.

It might make more sense if there were some actual revolutionary movement that the Dems were co-opting. There isn't. So it just reads like something Carrol typed using finger reflexes without any input from the cerebrum.

Doug



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