There is a sick feeling of demoralization settling over Democrats, like drizzle on a cloudy day. It’s not because of losses in the midterm elections; it’s the unnerving realization that we are on our own.
An opponent of Joe Straus, the Jewish speaker of the Texas state Legislature, defended an e-mail in which he said he wanted \”a true Christian, conservative running it.\”
A combination of timing, diplomatic considerations and, above all, good old-fashioned noodging has culminated in the biggest push in years to free Jonathan Pollard.
Nancy Pelosi named Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) to run the next congressional elections for Democrats.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Jack Lew, an Orthodox Jew, to the Cabinet level position of the director of the Office of Management and Budget.
A congressional letter to President Obama urging clemency for Jonathan Pollard garnered 39 signatures, all Democrats.
Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives elected Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) their majority leader in the next Congress.
U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor\’s promise that the new GOP majority will \”serve as a check\” on the Obama administration was \”not in relation to U.S.-Israel relations,\” his spokesman said.
The new GOP majority will \”serve as a check\” on the Obama administration, Republican leader Eric Cantor told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Newly elected Florida Rep. Allen West withdrew a job offer to a Jewish talk show host who called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi \”garbage\” and said Jewish Democrats \”don\’t embrace being Jewish.\”
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