Decision time Democrats: Oppose Biden’s genocide in Gaza or tacitly support it

 

Decision time Democrats: Oppose Biden’s genocide in Gaza or tacitly support it

 

The verdict of history will condemn President Biden to eternity for enabling Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. Over half (56%) of his 81 million voters in 2020 recognize this ghoulish truth and are abandoning him with their respect and possibly their vote November 5.

 

But that leaves roughly 37 million Biden voters who have turned away from Biden’s genocidal policies to continue total support in this election season. They have scrubbed any references to Gaza, Palestinians or genocide from their support. They go further and criticize any Democrat who does, even hurling scurrilous insults that critics are in sync with Trump and aiding Trump’s reelection.

 

While destroying life for 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Biden has destroyed his soul and legacy with the worst murderous policy any leader could engage in. At 81 and in declining mental and physical health, it may be too late to expect a Biden epiphany to abandon genocidal aid to Netanyahu’s Likud Party.

 

But it’s not too late for genocidal Biden’s unthinking supporters to pivot to peace. If so, they would not only join the Democratic voting majority and most of the civilized world in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, they would be reclaiming their moral legacy as well.

Democrats cementing status as America’s premier war party

Democrats cementing status as America’s premier war party

 

It used to be Republicans that were America’s premier war party. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Lindsay Graham were their standard bearers in provoking, starting, prolonging devastating US warfare worldwide.

 

No more.

 

The Biden administration provoked Russia into a calamitous border war in Ukraine that threatens nuclear war on top of Ukraine’s descent into a failed state.

 

The Biden administration, at first, simply continued America’s bipartisan 76 yearlong Israeli Apartheid policy degrading life for Palestinians under their control. But when Israel’s Likud government, under Benjamin Netanyahu, morphed it into genocidal ethnic cleansing of all 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the Biden administration joined in. Tens of thousands of US bombs and bullets, public support and vetoing repeated calls for ceasefire in the UN Security Council, insures the ethnic cleansing continues unabated. Six months in, over 20,000 Palestinian women and children are dead in a pitiful 139 square miles of rubble leveled largely by US bombs.

 

Maybe this would have occurred under a second Trump administration. Maybe not. But when Biden proposed another $95 billion on weapons support for both these grotesque wars last fall, Democrats were mostly all in; Republicans mostly all out. Biden got his Democratic majority to quickly pass it in the Senate. But GOP House Speakers McCarthy and his successor Johnson, taking their cue from GOP leader Trump, bottled it up in the House.

 

Biden’s Democrats no like. To obtain passage, Democrats are resorting to parliamentary trickery to squander more of America’s dwindling treasure.

 

Rep. Jim McGovern, top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, seeks to use a rarely used rule to force a vote on a massive military spending bill that includes $61 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel. This in spite of a sizeable citizen majority opposing billions more to further destroy Ukraine and Gaza. McGovern is collecting signatures to force a vote on the supplemental defense spending bill. McGovern will need a majority of representatives, at least218, to sign his petition to bring the bill to a vote even if Speaker Mike Johnson opposes it.

 

Not enough Republicans might pass on signing McGovern’s ploy, while too many Democrats might sign it. If so, this dastardly weapons boondoggle will continue death and suffering in the now failed state of Ukraine, and the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. If Biden’s Democrats get their $95 billion, it will be against the wishes of a growing majority of their voter base. Apparently, for the Biden administration, weapons makers talk…and Democratic voters walk.

Chicago Tribune’s ‘Right to die’ in Illinois editorial disqualifies Trib Editorial Board as potential debate judges.

 Chicago Tribune’s ‘Right to die’ in Illinois editorial disqualifies Trib Editorial Board as potential debate judges.

I thought the Tribune Editorial Board could come up with cogent arguments to oppose the pending right to die Legislation in Illinois. But after spending most of the editorial describing its importance to the extreme suffering of the near dead and their families, the Trib offers just 2 minor concerns the Trib uses to oppose right to die in Illinois.

First, they oppose any end of life options involving a physician whose sole obligation is to cure patients and prevent death. That narrow job description for doctors ignores that they have been assisting suffering, terminal patients to die since the first doctor started practicing.

The Trib’s second concern is bizarre. It cites a Harvard study that found “only 40.7% of physicians were “very confident” in their ability to provide equal quality care to patients with disabilities.” That study concerned disability patients, not end of life patients suffering horribly. Besides what does 40.7% of doctors not feeling “very confident” about anything have to do with a critical issue that every American might face before they check out from life.

It appears the Trib was searching for any possible reason, however specious, to justify their preordained position. If the Trib Board was in a debate on right to die…it would not move on from Round One.

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