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Halliburton

(1,802 posts) Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:01 AM Jul 2015

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BREAKING: AIPAC TO SPEND OVER $20 MILLION TO LOBBY CONGRESS TO KILL IRAN DEAL

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/17/pro-israel-aipac-creates-group-to-lobby-against-the-iran-deal/

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BREAKING: AIPAC TO SPEND OVER $20 MILLION TO LOBBY CONGRESS TO KILL IRAN DEAL (Original Post) Halliburton Jul 2015 OP

That's not enough $$$. Agschmid Jul 2015 #1

$20m too little? How much would treason cost? leveymg Jul 2015 #2

Well who knows but $20m barely breaks into the Manhattan Condo market in some places... Agschmid Jul 2015 #4

Good point. Except ... leveymg Jul 2015 #7

Citizens United Hydra Jul 2015 #8

How about instead moondust Jul 2015 #3

Or buying themselves one-way tickets to Israel. nt geek tragedy Jul 2015 #5

Sounds good to me. 47of74 Jul 2015 #6

Who knew? Surprise, surprise..."The group’s advisory committee includes several former Democratic... Surya Gayatri Jul 2015 #9

And Obama would veto any bill that killed the deal. What a waste of their money. n/t pnwmom Jul 2015 #10

fuck AIPAC. LeftOfWest Jul 2015 #11

That's a drop in the bucket davidpdx Jul 2015 #12

The largest pro-Israel lobby JonLP24 Jul 2015 #13

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)

1. That's not enough $$$.

Reply to Halliburton (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:03 AM

Jul 2015

Won't work.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

2. $20m too little? How much would treason cost?

Reply to Agschmid (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:09 AM

Jul 2015

Serious question.

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)

4. Well who knows but $20m barely breaks into the Manhattan Condo market in some places...

Reply to leveymg (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:12 AM

Jul 2015

AIPAC needs to aim a bit higher, IMO.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

7. Good point. Except ...

Reply to Agschmid (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:22 AM

Jul 2015

But I thought 3/5 of Congress was already on retainer? Aren't they expected to provide services for their payment?

Hydra

(14,459 posts)

8. Citizens United

Reply to leveymg (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 02:15 AM

Jul 2015

They probably didn't get the memo- the going rate to derail major policy issues is probably in the neighborhood of a Billion Dollars.

Of course, we probably gave Bibi's wackos at least 40x this year...so probably won't be hard for them to scrape up for it.

moondust

(19,981 posts)

3. How about instead

Reply to Halliburton (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:10 AM

Jul 2015

using that money to rebuild Gaza schools, homes, and shops?

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

5. Or buying themselves one-way tickets to Israel. nt

Reply to moondust (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:13 AM

Jul 2015

47of74

(18,470 posts)

6. Sounds good to me.

Reply to geek tragedy (Reply #5)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:16 AM

Jul 2015

And they can take their ~~traitors~~ Congress people with them.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

9. Who knew? Surprise, surprise..."The group’s advisory committee includes several former Democratic...

Reply to Halliburton (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 04:23 AM

Jul 2015

members of Congress, including former Senators Evan Bayh of Indiana, Mark Begich of Alaska, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut..."

pnwmom

(108,978 posts)

10. And Obama would veto any bill that killed the deal. What a waste of their money. n/t

Reply to Halliburton (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 04:25 AM

Jul 2015

LeftOfWest

(482 posts)

11. fuck AIPAC.

Reply to Halliburton (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 04:32 AM

Jul 2015

and international terrorist bibi.

and his anointed Terrorists pals bush/cheney

Off to prison with them now.

NOW.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

12. That's a drop in the bucket

Reply to Halliburton (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 05:14 AM

Jul 2015

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

13. The largest pro-Israel lobby

Reply to Halliburton (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 05:35 AM

Jul 2015

are evangelical Christians so factor that into the money they're spending to kill the Iran deal.

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