{"id":41024,"date":"2022-10-27T19:38:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T03:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=41024"},"modified":"2022-10-27T19:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T03:38:05","slug":"cowardly-house-progressives-retract-letter-calling-for-ukraine-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/27\/cowardly-house-progressives-retract-letter-calling-for-ukraine-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowardly House Progressives Retract Letter Calling For Ukraine Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Aaron Mat\u00e9 filled in for vacationing Jimmy Dore and hosted Max Blumenthal and Kurt Metzger Thursday to talk about the Progressive Caucus caving on their weak letter favoring diplomacy with Russia:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Merely 24 hours after submitting a mildly-worded letter calling for increased efforts at diplomacy over Ukraine, House Progressives retracted the letter, apologizing for the poor \u201ctiming\u201d and blaming staffers for issuing the letter without approval from their Congressional bosses. Which is both cowardly and transparently implausible. So it\u2019s confirmed \u2014 there is no such thing as an anti-war wing of the Democratic Party, at least not among elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Guest host <a href=\"https:\/\/mate.substack.com\/\">Aaron Mat\u00e9<\/a> and his panel of The Grayzone\u2019s Max Blumenthal and America\u2019s Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss this epically craven backpedal from the already pathetically weak Congressional progressives, and how the door has now slammed shut on the possibility of ending this war any time in the near term.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAIUdGIOdMY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Mat\u00e9 filled in for vacationing Jimmy Dore and hosted Max Blumenthal and Kurt Metzger Thursday to talk about the Progressive Caucus caving on their weak letter favoring diplomacy with Russia: Merely 24 hours after submitting a mildly-worded letter calling for increased efforts at diplomacy over Ukraine, House Progressives retracted the letter, apologizing for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-41024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41026,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41024\/revisions\/41026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41024"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=41024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}