G.O.P.'s Far Right Seeks to Use Defense Bill to Defund Ukraine War Effort
NYT - July 12
reader comments:
~ So the Republican extremists who are most supportive of Donald Trump are pursuing a policy that would enormously benefit Vladimir Putin. Interesting.
~ These far right extremists wrap themselves in the flag, but they could not be more unAmerican. They have no policies that would actually solve real problems. All they do is foment hate. They should leave the military alone; they aren't fit to oversee anything.
~ The GOP's far right wants to stop helping defend Ukraine because they are aligned with Putin. Like Trump. The far right is the greatest threat to democracy in the world today.
~ Every day, and in every way, the GOP gets more and more evil. We MUST vote them out of every office.
~ Russia is a mafia state with nearly 4,500 nuclear warheads and America as their primary target.
Supporting the sovereignty of Ukraine and the integrity of NATO are vital to American interests.
~ I'm old enough to remember when the GOP supported our military and supported democracy, here and abroad.
As Mitt Romney (Republican) says, these are not serious people.
I would add that they are not decent or patriotic people.
~ Let's be honest. Trump kisses up to Putin because he wants a sweet deal to build a hotel in Moscow.
His sycophants move to cut off aid to Ukraine, a critical US security interest, just because Trump wants it.
So, our entire national security program, and world peace, are placed at risk so that one aging developer can get a little richer. This is what the Republican party has descended to.
~ We must stand with Ukraine. Let's face it, the only reason Russia started this war was because Trump and his cronies showed weakness.
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-------------------- [excerpt from Chronicles: Volume One, by Bob Dylan. Copyright 2004. Simon & Schuster] ---------------------
Lou Levy, top man of Leeds Music Publishing company, took me up in a taxi to the Pythian Temple on West 70th Street to show me the pocket sized recording studio where Bill Haley and His Comets had recorded "Rock Around the Clock"--then down to Jack Dempsey's restaurant on 58th and Broadway, where we sat down in a red leather upholstered booth facing the front window.
Lou introduced me to Jack Dempsey, the great boxer. Jack shook his fist at me.
"You look too light for a heavyweight kid, you'll have to put on a few pounds. You're gonna have to dress a little finer, look a little sharper--not that you'll need much in the way of clothes when you're in the ring--don't be afraid of hitting somebody too hard."
"He's not a boxer, Jack, he's a songwriter and we'll be publishing his songs."
"Oh, yeah, well I hope to hear 'em some of these days. Good luck to you, kid."
Outside the wind was blowing, straggling cloud wisps, snow whirling in the red lanterned streets, city types scuffling around, bundled up--salesmen hawking gimmicks, chestnut vendors, steam rising out of manholes.
None of it seemed important. I had just signed a contract with Leeds Music giving it the right to publish my songs, not that there was any great deal to hammer out. I hadn't written much yet. Lou had advanced me a hundred dollars against future royalties to sign the paper and that was fine with me.
John Hammond, who had brought me to Columbia Records, had taken me over to see Lou, asked him to look after me. Hammond had only heard two of my original compositions, but he had a premonition that there would be more.
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