The President and Congress are “puppets” of “the pro-Israeli lobbies”:

Ralph Nader, talking to — I’m not making this up — Pat Buchanan, in The American Conservative magazine:

[Nader]: The subservience of our congressional and White House puppets to Israeli military policy has been consistent. . . .

[Buchanan]: You used the term “congressional puppets.” Did John Kerry show himself to be a congressional puppet when he voted to give the president a blank check to go to war?

[Nader]: They’re almost all puppets. There are two sets: Congressional puppets and White House puppets. When the chief puppeteer comes to Washington, the puppets prance.

[Buchanan]: Why do both sets of puppets, support the Sharon/Likud policies in the Middle East rather than the peace movement candidates and leaders in Israel?

[Nader]: . . . The answer to your question is that instead of focusing on how to bring a peaceful settlement, both parties concede their independent judgment to the pro-Israeli lobbies in this country because they perceive them as determining the margin in some state elections and as sources of funding. . . .

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