Greenberg: Republican for Big Tool
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Greenberg keeps up the attack on Bean.
So, Bean has natural reasons to support the Serbian position and receive money from Serbian Americans.
Swami takes no side for now on the ancient, underlying dispute, but he does find it reprehensible that Greenberg calls out Bean this way: “Congresswoman Melissa Bean is flagrantly working on behalf of foreign interests, against the interests of the United States. This is an outrage and today I am asking for an investigation of Ms. Bean’s activities as an agent for a foreign government.”
When you call a sitting U.S. congresswoman an agent of foreign powers, that tends to get attention.
Swami’s view? This as a temper tantrum by an inexperienced candidate who now senses he’s not going to win the election and is casting about in the dark for any rock to throw. Desperation can be ugly.
His is a spiteful position, rife with cultural undertones and barely veiled hate talk. Remember the price for inheriting the wind.
And it doesn’t help Greenberg that some of the leading conservative political practitioners are on the other side of the Serb-Kosovo issue. Greenberg hasn’t called Lawrence Eagleburger a Serbian terror patsy, yet.
If Greenberg wants to debate Bean on the issue of which side in a 16-century-old conflagration is right, Swami says be our guest.
But calling someone a traitor just because they disagree with your position is a low and unbecoming tactic and, more to the point, it doesn’t positively distinguish a person seeking to sit in Congress.
You know who co-sponsored the bill?
Dan Burton, Steve Chabot….
Change Serbian to Jewish or Israeli and see what happens when you make claims like this (rightfully so). Balkan policy seldom has easy answers and there is nothing wrong with a debate about the policy. Now, if the good Mr. Greenberg would like to explain to Peter Roskam why he is un-American, it’s time for him to STFU.