GOP Prostitution Ring Uncovered in Congress

We're not talking cheap streetwalkers, slinking into the halls of Congress to amuse sexually repressed GOP politicians.  Quite to the contrary, what makes this news all the more sordid is that Republican Senators and members of the House of Representative are selling their virtue and pimping themselves to the same needy john -- Israel.   The highest paid of these political hookers is Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, architect of the letter sent to Iranian leaders signed by 46 GOP congressmen warning against a nuclear arms deal.  The New York Times,  article stated:

 The Emergency Committee for Israel, led by William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, spent $960,000 to support Mr. Cotton. In that same race, a firm run by Paul Singer, a hedge fund billionaire from New York and a leading donor to pro-Israel causes, contributed $250,000 to Arkansas Horizon, another independent expenditure group supporting Mr. Cotton. Seth Klarman, a Boston-based pro-Israel billionaire, contributed $100,000 through his investment firm.  The political action committee run by John Bolton, the United Nations ambassador under President George W. Bush and an outspoken supporter of Israel, spent at least $825,000 to support Mr. Cotton. That PAC is in part financed by other major pro-Israel donors, including Irving and Cherna Moskowitz of Miami, who contributed 99 percent of their $1.1 million in 2012 races to Republican candidates and causes.

A Love Fest  

Casino magnate, Sheldon Adelson and his wife, have invested more than $100 million in right-wing  causes over the past four years.  After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at a joint meeting of Congress last month, wealthy pro-Israel donors and Republican congressmen met at the exclusive Capitol Hill Club.   “It was a love fest,” said Kenneth J. Bialkin, who was one of the donors in attendance.

Scott McConnell, editor of The American Conservative observed that this new intimacy between the GOP and Israel has shut down any dissent or consideration of Palestinian grievances. He opined:
“Now, there is a fanatical feeling of one-sidedness.”

Several Republican senators and champions of Israel interviewed for the New York Times article, "rejected any suggestion that the intensity of the party’s recent support had anything to do with money."

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