The sad decline of John Conyers
CounterPunch
by Ray McGovern
07/25/07
What do Rep. John Conyers (D, Michigan), chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and President George W. Bush have in common? They both think they can dis Cindy Sheehan and count on gossip columnists like the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank to trivialize an historic moment.I’ll give this to President Bush. He makes no pretence when he disses. He would not meet with Sheehan to define for her the “noble cause” for which her son Casey died or tell her why he had said it was “worth it.”Conyers, on the other hand, was dripping with pretence as he met with Sheehan, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and me yesterday in his office in the Rayburn building. I have seldom been so disappointed with someone I had previously held in high esteem. And before leaving, I told him so. Throwing salt in our wounds, he had us, and some fifty others in his anteroom arrested and taken out of action as the Capitol Police “processed” us for the next six hours...
http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern07252007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dana+Milbank
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern
by Ray McGovern
07/25/07
What do Rep. John Conyers (D, Michigan), chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and President George W. Bush have in common? They both think they can dis Cindy Sheehan and count on gossip columnists like the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank to trivialize an historic moment.I’ll give this to President Bush. He makes no pretence when he disses. He would not meet with Sheehan to define for her the “noble cause” for which her son Casey died or tell her why he had said it was “worth it.”Conyers, on the other hand, was dripping with pretence as he met with Sheehan, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and me yesterday in his office in the Rayburn building. I have seldom been so disappointed with someone I had previously held in high esteem. And before leaving, I told him so. Throwing salt in our wounds, he had us, and some fifty others in his anteroom arrested and taken out of action as the Capitol Police “processed” us for the next six hours...
http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern07252007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Conyers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dana+Milbank
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern
rudkla - 26. Jul, 12:46
