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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe House just voted 357-22 to bar President Trump from exiting NATO.
Here are the 22 lawmakers who opposed it all Republicans.
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Botany
(70,581 posts)Damn I'm so proud of my state.
underpants
(182,877 posts)Not surprised.
Initech
(100,101 posts)Is there a GOOD jazz trio?
Not a fan of jazz. Was once in a record store with second hand CD's. There was a "Used Jazz" section and "Used Gospel".
Initech
(100,101 posts)Where it was "A genius and an idiot both listening to smooth jazz" and within a minute they both had the same reaction:
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)Ms Doreen Ketchans. One of the best in the world.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)justhanginon
(3,290 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)She blew the socks off the Louisiana Philharmonic.
underpants
(182,877 posts)Just not my cup of tea
TlalocW
(15,390 posts)Aka, the guy who did all the music for Peanuts.
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his father, jazz pianist, Ellis, released an album in 1995 called, "Joe Cool's Blues," where they covered a lot of the Peanuts songs as well as played some originals written in the style. In the liner notes, Ellis wrote about how he would make his kids watch the Peanuts specials because they had the best jazz you could find on TV at the time.
TlalocW
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Never heard anyone diss jazz before ---- but perhaps you haven't ever heard it aside from Kenny G and that crap?
underpants
(182,877 posts)It's just not my personal favorite.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)Bettie
(16,124 posts)on the list.
onlyadream
(2,167 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,413 posts)Always good to know who is acting on behalf of foreign dictators.
It's a lower percentage of Russiapublicans in the House than in the Senate.
Edit to add:
There are 42 Russiapublicans in the Senate -- they voted to enrich Deripaska and Putin.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211710438
bitterross
(4,066 posts)McConnell probably won't let it come up for a vote.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)So tired of these shits. They just vote no on everything.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)yonder
(9,673 posts)and neither is the latest offering from Idaho's 1st District, Russ Fulcher. Gohmert's showing him the ropes while Russ is trying on the shoes of his predecessors, Steve Symms, Helen Chenoweth-Hage and Raul Labrador.
Idaho's 1st can do so much better, but they-just-never-do.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)is conducting the peoples work while McConnell obstructs. Traitor bastard.
at140
(6,110 posts)I like the ratio and I like NATO. Just want all NATO members to pay their fair share = 2% of their country GDP.
Polybius
(15,475 posts)These people have zero interest in the rest of the world. Pat Buchanan would be proud.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)deurbano
(2,895 posts)Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)He ran against a dead woman in our district. She died after she won her primary. He also voted to drop the sanctions on Russia. He's one of Putin's pets too, I guess. I'm going to write the local papers to make sure people know how he votes...
Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)I think I'll do that too. I hope we have an awesome candidate in 2020. Roy was voted in with a thin margin. I'm so angry at all the stupid voters around here. Ugh!
blue-wave
(4,362 posts)the 22 Russian republicons
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The Reagan worshipper wants to empower Russia now.
Hypocrite.
Jim Jordan, no surprise there.
kimbutgar
(21,187 posts)Call them out as the traitors they are!
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)And this is a big one.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Are Republicans all that different from Bernie Sanders who skipped the recent Senate vote blocking the Trump administration from lifting sanctions on a Russian billionaire, and who also has a long history of criticizing NATO as wasting US tax dollars. Indeed, hasn't Bernie advocated for a fundamental change in NATO from a bulwark against Russian expansion to a group that includes Russia. Are Bernie's views on NATO all that different from Trump's?
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/260804-sanders-calls-for-new-nato-that-includes-russia
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for a new accord between America, its closest allies and Russia as well as Arab nations as a major plank on how to destroy the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
We must create an organization like NATO to confront the security threats of the 21st century an organization that emphasizes cooperation and collaboration to defeat the rise of violent extremism and importantly to address the root causes underlying these brutal acts, the Democratic presidential candidate said Thursday during a speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
We must work with our NATO partners, and expand our coalition to include Russia and members of the Arab League.
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, started at the doorstep of the Cold War and eventually became a major alliance against the then-Soviet Union. So accepting Russia into NATO, or creating a new defense group all together, would rearrange one of the worlds most powerful bonds by uniting the former rival countries around ISIS as the modern enemy.