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Credit Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with embodying the lunacy that has Democrats united against funding the US military: She claimed this week that the National Defense Authorization Act poses \u201can existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy\u201d because it would \u201cmerge parts of our military\u00a0with the Israel Defense Forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more 13 tanker ships have been hit by Iran and Houthis since cease-fire breakdown<\/a><\/p>\n

Insane: The bill\u2019s Section 219 simply OKs military cooperation on cybersecurity, tech joint exercises and so on; the Pentagon has similar accords with nations from Canada to India.<\/p>\n

But paranoid Israel-bashing now dominates the Democratic Party, so much so that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries didn\u2019t dare whip Democratic votes against last week\u2019s proposed amendment to zero out US aid to Israel, which more than half <\/em>of House Dems proceeded to support.<\/p>\n

More broadly, the party\u2019s uniting around opposing President Trump on everything<\/em>, so much so that Senate Dems will use the filibuster to block the Defense bill, forcing Republicans to use the arcane \u201creconciliation\u201d procedures to simply get the Pentagon through the next few months of the Iran war.<\/p>\n

Thus the House, after passing the NDAA, also moved a Republicans-only $95 billion spending resolution that begins the reconciliation process \u2014 a figure that may grow to cover some defense-modernization needs. <\/p>\n

But that process won\u2019t finish until mid-September at the earliest, and is sure to feature a host of other proposed amendments designed to please Dems hard-left base, with lots more speeches implying that Benjamin Netanyahu is using Jewish mind-control powers to make Trump do his bidding.<\/p>\n

Read more Iran flew commanders, missile gear to Houthi rebels in Yemen: report<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, Trump should be doing a better job of explaining his war strategy and selling it to the public \u2014 but it\u2019s simply disgraceful for Democrats to block Defense funding while enemy fire is killing US service members in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Again, they\u2019re blocking both <\/em>emergency funds for the Iran war and <\/em>the larger Defense bill for the year that they had <\/em>agreed on with Republicans before their base\u2019s anti-war fever reached a new peak.<\/p>\n

All of it, with an eye on causing chaos in advance of November\u2019s elections \u2014 even as their posturing in Washington feeds the hard left\u2019s drive to knock off more-moderate Democrats in the primaries.<\/p>\n

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We keep urging sane Dems to fight back against the lefties, yet Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer keep appeasing <\/em>them and saving all their fire for Trump and the GOP.<\/p>\n

If they keep this up, AOC will soon be the heart of the party and maybe even its 2028 nominee.<\/p>\n

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