[quote]The Mage wrote:
Why does JTF have to Hitler up the message boards?[/quote]
Why do Jews have Jew up our government?
What do you call strategically placing people of a specific minority race in powerful chair and leadership positions, seemingly for the express benefit of a FOREIGN country? Racist? Conspiracy?
Traitor comes to mind.
Division of congressional posts seems to favor Jewish issues
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (JTA) – The new Congress doesn’t just feature more Jews in powerful positions than the community has seen in more than a decade – it also features more friendly faces across the board, Jewish leaders say.
A “net positive” is how one pro-Israel activist described it…
No one denies that the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives, in power from 1995 until 2006, was overwhelmingly pro-Israel. But with Democratic wins in both houses, the 110th Congress removes from power several maverick Republicans who wanted the United States to be more critical of Israel, and boosts to leadership lawmakers who are not just Israel-friendly but intimately acquainted with the U.S. Jewish community…
[so the House already being “overwhelmingly pro-Israel” wasn’t quite good enough]
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the sole Holocaust survivor in Congress and one of Israel’s staunchest defenders in the House of Representatives, assumes control of the International Relations Committee. His deputy is Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), also Jewish.
Lantos replaces Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), who was often critical of Israeli settlement policy, particular its effects on Palestinian Christians. Hyde was retiring in any case, and moving into the top Republican spot on the committee is Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), whose pro-Israel record is unmatched.
Four of the committee’s seven subcommittee chairmen are likely to be Jewish, though the positions will only be formalized by week’s end:
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In line for chairmanship of the Middle East subcommittee is Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.);
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Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) is set to head the International Terrorism and Nonproliferation subcommittee;
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Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) is ready to helm the Western Hemisphere subcommittee, which deals in part with terrorist and Islamist incursions in the Americas; and
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Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) is set to take over Europe and Emerging Threats, which deals with anti-Semitism on that continent.
Other Jewish members guiding House committees include:
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Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who will deal with banking laws in the Financial Services Committee;
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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), likely to assume a high profile heading the Government Reform Committee as he investigates the Bush administration�??s handling of the Iraq war, the 2005 hurricanes and rising energy costs; and
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Berman, who as chairman of the Ethics Committee will be closely watched to see if Democrats make good on their pledges to clean up government.
Perhaps the most prominent pro-Israel boost is of Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who becomes majority leader. Hoyer is on a first-name basis with much of the board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and has been to Israel multiple times, exhibiting broad knowledge of its political workings…
Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), who will head the powerful Appropriations Committee, is in the “friendly but critical” category, backing assistance to Israel but diverging sharply on its settlement policy. Obey once proposed linking assistance to changes in that policy.
However, with the burgeoning deficit and major Iraq war funding battles in the offing, Obey is not likely to have much time to deal with Israel. He’ll leave that to Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), who will chair the Foreign Operations subcommittee. Lowey, who began her political career leading Jewish groups, is quite friendly to Israel…
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the new House speaker, has elevated a number of Jewish members to powerful committees. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) joins Appropriations after just two years in the House, as does Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). They join Lowey and Rep. Steven Rothman (D-N.J.) on the committee…
Jews in chairmanship positions include:
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Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) at Armed Services;
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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) at Environment;
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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) at Homeland Security;
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Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) at Aging;
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at Rules; and
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Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) at Economic.
Both Houses have Jews in the top political position of caucus chair – Schumer in the Senate and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) in the House
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20070110Divisionofcongress.html
Now, imagine they all think like Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Time to rethink
THE JERUSALEM POST
Jun. 23, 2008
Howard Berman likes to joke that he became a Zionist before he became a Democrat. Aside from the moment when he learned that president Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died, the 67-year-old congressman’s earliest political memory is of being at a rally at a Los Angeles stadium celebrating the birth of Israel in 1948.
Today, as the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he’s in a position to do more than wave flags and cheer. He has the helm of one of the most powerful bodies shaping US foreign policy, and he says his decision to run for Congress and focus on international relations while in office was intimately connected to his Jewish background and ties to the Jewish state.
“Israel’s security and the US-Israeli relationship is for me an issue that shapes my whole agenda [in] Congress, and guides it,” he told The Jerusalem Post in a recent interview in his Capitol Hill office.
Sure, I could leave the forum – the problem still remains…
Most Jews ever set to enter Congress
Jan 2007
A record number of Jewish members will enter Congress Thursday, but more remarkable are the unparalleled positions of power they will hold on committees related to Israel, many local Jewish activists say.
Congress’ approval plunges to 9 percent
1st time ever rating for lawmakers sinks to single digits
Yeah, its just me being anti-Semitic. Just keep repeating… its not a Jewish thing… its not a Jewish thing… its not a…
Open your damn eyes – it only gets worse from here.
