Posted on 09/04/2015 8:36:05 AM PDT by Dave346
There are 28 Jewish members of Congress: 26 Democrats, one independent who caucuses with the Democrats and one Republican. Nine of them are senators and 19 are representatives.
Fourteen back the Iran deal, seven oppose it and seven are undecided.
Backing the deal
Senate
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., elected 1992, retiring next year. Democratic chief deputy whip, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., elected 1992. Ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., elected 2008.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., elected 2006. Caucuses with Democrats, running for president.
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, appointed 2012, elected 2014.
House
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., elected 2006.
Rep. Susan Davis, D-Calif., elected 2000.
Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., elected 1982. Ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, longest serving Jewish member of Congress.
Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif., elected 2012. Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., elected 1992.
Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., elected 2008.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., elected 1998. Democratic deputy chief whip.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., elected 2000. Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., elected 2006.
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My comments regarding this “rogues’ list” of American Jewry would result in my being drummed out of this fine roster of concerned Americans.
Use your own imagination.
We should never use Adam Schiff and “intelligence” in the same sentence.
Sad. But then, read the Tanakh / Old Testament.
To the inevitable question why the Jews persist in voting against their own interests, I offer the following:
The Pew Research Center recently released a study of the American Jewish community http://www.pewforum.org/2015/08/26/a-portrait-of-american-orthodox-jews/ which shows two things:
1. Only Orthodox jews are reproducing at a greater than replacement rate (4.1 kids per family versus 1.7 for all others)
2. Most Orthodox Jews identify as Republicans. The latter statistic is only by 57% to 43, which surprised me, but at least it’s a majority.
So in a generation or two the problem posed by the inevitable question will have disappeared. Because non-Orthodox American Jews will have largely disappeared.
The longer but more responsive answer to the inevitable question is that, as the Pew study shows, most people who identify as Jews aren’t all that committed to the things that make people Jewish: Jewish tradition, jewish law, the Torah, and Israel. And that’s why they vote they way they do. And it’s also why, in a few generations, their descendants will not be Jews.
Boxer and Feinstein both have 0% conservative rating. These minions always toe the line. The never assess a piece of legislation and find merit in an opposing view.
My question is: Why even pay the cost in salary, benefits, and retirement for these two and others like them. We could simply have robots vote in their stead and save the taxpayers beaucoup dinero.
Which is worse: (a) losing personal influence in the Democrat party, or (b) watching Israel get nuked by Iran. Apparently, a lot of democrats chose based on selfish motives. There is no guarantee, even in Revelation, that things will go smoothly for Israel, so I pray daily that my expectations for this fiasco will be proven wrong.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Not quite sure why JTA tracks this almost daily. It doesn't appear to me they're voting much different than non Jewish Democrats.
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