Thursday, January 15, 2009

David Price is against Palestine, again

On the 9th, David Price and 221 Democrats voted for Nancy Pelosi's House Resolution 34 (thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d111:1:./temp/~bd1Ff9::|/bss/111search.html|).  Only 4 Democrats, including Dennis Kucinich, and one Republican, Ron Paul, voted against (see the vote at clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll010.xml).  It had 116 cosponsors.  This is basically an anti-Palestinian resolution that scapegoats Hamas in support of Israeli imperialism, despite a few words about Israeli benevolence and Congress' "condolences" to the Palestinian victims and support for a "viable, independent, and democratic Palestinian state."  This was a day after Harry Reid's Senate Resolution 10 (thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.RES.10:), basically the same as Pelosi's bill, passed unanimously, without amendment and with 34 cosponsors, such as John Kerry.  Local protests for Gaza should target Price (and Etheridge), but his imperialist and Zionist sympathies were obvious after his vote on a similar resolution when Israel attacked Lebanon.     

No comments: