Seven of the Representatives who voted not to condemn the Goldstone Report are among the top recipients of Muslim cash

I am especially surprised at Issa, him being one of them. But, he is a Republican from their stronghold of Orange County, CA, so maybe that balances him out.

Amazing how little it takes to sell out your own country.

What's particularly galling is that the cash donated to these guys probably came from us in the first place through oil revenues.

Issa is a Cleveland-born American of Lebanese heritage. He is a Christian. Elected in 2000, he served before the first openly-Muslim member of Congress. His name means "Jesus" in Arabic. Arab Muslim money, or any Muslim money? I doubt he receives much of that! As for him receiving a lot of Arab money, maybe, but it likely comes from his fellow Christians. (Some of whom eschew the term "Arab" because of its associations with Islam among those who don't read Jihadwatch, but what would be our excuse for conflating the two terms?!)

I have a crisp Franklin that says Jackson-Lee had no idea she was voting against the report.

Now that these folk have been named, are they shamed?
How disgraceful to find paid-up Saudi whores in the US government.

@jewcat: Or gambling in Casablanca.

Not to defend their scurrilous votes, but these particular legislators are already pre-disposed to have an anti-Israel world view. The "Muslim mafia" is giving them money because they know what these representatives believe in.

For example, when Cynthia McKinney was in Congress she used to take a lot of campaign contributions from foreign Muslims, but that was after she had been in Congress for a while and after she started vocalizing anti-Israel views (and long after her politician father uttered anti-semetic statements).

For an Arab Christian, Darrel Issa sure seems to side with a lot of the local Muslims in O.C., so he, is in essence, one of them.

Ah, so many familiar faces. There is the outright nasty (when it comes to Israel) Jim Moran, whose record of viciousness doesn't quite, as yet, put him in the paul-findley or jimmy-carter category, but he's trying. There's kindly, avuncular Jim McDermott, who likes to describe his long string of voting, or rather not voting, for pro-Israel resolutions as deeply, truly, madly pro-Israel in the profoundest, J Street sense. There are Michigan congressmen Conyers and Dingell (Dearborn packs a wallop, and a wallet), both of whom have also done yeoman service for the Saudis, by opposing any sensible rise in gasoline taxes. There are so many one could write about.

Quaere: How many have had their votes swayed by Arab money, and how many receive the Arab money because, you see, they already were voting as the Arabs wanted, and they like to reward their "friends" -- the ones who are consistently unsympathetic, or hostile, to Israel, and those who are terribly sympathetic to the Saudis, and to keeping us on the Saudi and OPEC teat.

Chicken, or the egg?

Kucinich gets muslim moolah! That pasty little man!

Only seven? I'm surprised there aren't more....

You should not be 'pleasantly surprised' at Jackson and Jackson Lee, they are still the same race hustlers they have always been. They voted 'yea' as a quorum vote and
to maintain harmony in the Democratic Party. In addition,
they are facing re-election in 2012. While the vast majority of the voters in Houston in Jackson Lee's district are Black, just as they are in Jackson's Chicago district
and these voters are not necessarily sympathetic to Jewish causes, the powerbrokers that Jackson Lee and Jackson answer to in the Democratic Party (whatever their other many faults) are pro-Israel, whether Jewish or not.
Jackson and Jackson Lee know this. What they say at other
gatherings (particularly among their own 'folk') is
another matter altogether and Jackson Lee is hardly
a friend of Israel, even if she is not as overtly nasty
and anti-Semitic as Cynthia McKinney (formerly D-GA).

All the other votes are not surprising, Rahall is the
'Jim Abourezk of Appalachia'-anti-Israel (why a Lebanese-American Christian from small town West VA should support Jihad is beyond me). Rahall is a real scuzbucket.

The others are extreme Left-wing hacks (McDermott, Conyers,
Kilpatrick, Dingell and Kucinich). They are Obama's Kumbaya Choir.

Jim Moran is essentially the Saudi Representative for Fairfax County, VA and never met Arab oil money he didn't like. Finally, Issa should not surprise you. He is a moderate and balanced voice on the Middle-East and is popular and respected among BOTH wealthy Jewish and Lebanese Americans in Orangce County, CA. I don't think Issa is a particular friend of CAIR or Islamic interests
and his voting record on Israel has been generally good.

By the way, although you will not find anything about his Arab ethnic origins and family history anywhere on his congressional website or the internet, Arab-American
Arizon Rep. John Shaddeg (R-AZ) is passionately pro-Israel.

Darrell Issa, sometime Islamochristian, remains apparently unaware that his own Christian ancestors left Lebanon-Syria (possibly while that area was still part of the Ottoman Empire, and they may have been listed on their documents as "Turcos" or "Sirianos"), did so because of the circumambient Muslims, who made life often so difficult for Christians - at least until the brief, and glorious period of the French Mandate over both Lebanon and Syria, offered some protection.

Even if not clever enough to realize that the "islamochristians" are betraying their own Christian ancestors -- which is why those in this country, mostly Maronites, who carefully identify themselves as "Lebanese" rather than as "Arabs" are sending a signal --we were there before the Arabs, we use Arabic, we may even have Arabic last-names (but Georges and Pierre and Andre are our Christian names), and we do not consider ourselves Arabs. On the other hand, the Muslim Arabs in this country have cynically been using the "Arab" ethnic identity to camouflage their Islam, and thus they take advantage of the good reputation of the older generation of Maronite immigrants, the very people who came from Lebanon, while the Maronites (and Greek Orthodox) still in Lebanon have suffered terribly as the Muslims have gainedi in relative numbers and thus, inexorably, in power in what was, just a half-century ago, a refuge for Christians, a place whose greatest figure was the late statesman, Charles Malik (whose piercing understanding, and apprehension, of Islam prompted his participation in writing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a most un-Islamic document, in its guarantees, as the Muslims know perfectly well), For the past few decades, Christians, especially Maronites, have been leaving Lebanon, a place where they lived before the Arabs arrived bearing the "gift" of Islam; those Maronites can now be found in places where earlier generations of Lebanese once settled -- in America, Canada, Australia, France, and elsewhere in the non-Muslim, civilized world. Surely some of those Lebanese can keep working on Darrell Issa, and make sure that what, until now, has been merely the result of political calculation (he may have his sights set on the Senate, and an anti-Israel record will not do him good), will instead reflect his own deeper understanding of the contents, and the menace, of Islam -- the Islam that, he should come to understand, imperils not only Israel, but also the Christians of Lebanon.

You should not be 'pleasantly surprised' at Jackson and Jackson Lee, they are still the same race hustlers they have always been. They voted 'yea' as a quorum vote and
to maintain harmony in the Democratic Party. In addition,
they are facing re-election in 2012. While the vast majority of the voters in Houston in Jackson Lee's district are Black, just as they are in Jackson's Chicago district
and these voters are not necessarily sympathetic to Jewish causes, the powerbrokers that Jackson Lee and Jackson answer to in the Democratic Party (whatever their other many faults) are pro-Israel, whether Jewish or not.
Jackson and Jackson Lee know this. What they say at other
gatherings (particularly among their own 'folk') is
another matter altogether and Jackson Lee is hardly
a friend of Israel, even if she is not as overtly nasty
and anti-Semitic as Cynthia McKinney (formerly D-GA).

All the other votes are not surprising, Rahall is the
'Jim Abourezk of Appalachia'-anti-Israel (why a Lebanese-American Christian from small town West VA should support Jihad is beyond me). Rahall is a real scuzbucket.

The others are extreme Left-wing hacks (McDermott, Conyers,
Kilpatrick, Dingell and Kucinich). They are Obama's Kumbaya Choir.

Jim Moran is essentially the Saudi Representative for Fairfax County, VA and never met Arab oil money he didn't like. Finally, Issa should not surprise you. He is a moderate and balanced voice on the Middle-East and is popular and respected among BOTH wealthy Jewish and Lebanese Americans in Orangce County, CA. I don't think Issa is a particular friend of CAIR or Islamic interests
and his voting record on Israel has been generally good.

By the way, although you will not find anything about his Arab ethnic origins and family history anywhere on his congressional website or the internet, Arab-American
Arizon Rep. John Shaddeg (R-AZ) is passionately pro-Israel.

The Issa I discuss above is not to be confused with that other Issa, though for all I know, such confusion has helped Darrell Issa to garner some Japanese-American votes.

The other Issa produced many haiku.

Here's a sleep-inducing one, futon-based, for the Japanese delegation at JW:

ふとんきるや翌のわらじを枕元

I don't know much about Darrel Issa, but it's a safe bet that Kobayashi Issa has more to offer your life.

だけど, さすが Hugh先生 !!!

日本語でも読める?

すごい!

I'm constantly impressed by Hugh's erudition.

Let it never be said that it isn't a hot crowd that hangs out at JW.

Of the 66 who were nays or "present", by my count only 5 or 6 were Republicans (the troofer Ron Paul among them). The rest were dhimmicrats.

Anyone know which donors we're talking about? And how much money? Anyone with any specific information?

From Hugh in a different comment: ふとんきるや翌のわらじを枕元

to which one is tempted to reply, well, that's easy for you to say, buddy! My Google translator gives "The next day the straw sandals futon and pillow Kiru" for this. Hugh, how close is Google?

My erudition consists in this case of finally getting the hang of 1) Wikipedia and 2) Cut-and-pasting. It's taken me quite a while.

Surprise, surprise. In this case that's enough commenting for me.

Eastview:

It's a bit hard to translate precisely as my skill is limited, the style is antique and the characters used are mostly phonetics, which convey less meaning than the more complicated but more specifically meaningful Chinese characters.

That said, as I read it Google got most of the words right and mangled the meaning.

As near as I can see, and bear in mind that we are looking at 200 year old Japanese, so that is from before the period when western concepts and linguistic influences had made themselves much felt (and I am also out of my depth with old language) the piece reads something like this:

Wrapped in the blanket
The next day's woven sandals
Set by my pillow

or

Under the blanket
And then set by my pillow
Woven straw sandals

or even more loosely

Pulled up the blanket
And tomorrow's straw sandals
Set by the pillow

I'm a little confused about how he was using the word 翌, which these days refers to tomorrow, although it may have had a different flavor in Issa's day. Beats me.

Apparently Google missed the word きる (kiru) in this context because it is in a set phrase. There are pretty severe limits to those translation gizmos. And between Japanese and English it's particularly bad.

I stand by my comment about Hugh's erudition even if this one was a kludge. It was a tasteful kludge.

What about Keith "The Muslim 9/11 truther" Ellison?

I will have to read: Muslim Mafia.

dhimmicrats