If Congress does shoot down the resolution to authorize the use of force in Syria....

[Cali_Democrat]

Can we finally put to rest the anti-Semitic notion that AIPAC is in total control of Congress?

[el_bryanto]

1. Yes we'll have to go back to believing that AIPAC just has great but not total influence

over Congress. Is that anti-Semetic?

[jakeXT]

2. Grayson "All these organizations sort of fall to the wayside when the public weighs in."

REP. ALAN GRAYSON: Well, AIPAC has issued a statement saying that they’re in favor of an attack. And many other organizations have done the same, and many other organizations, even more organizations, have done a statement saying that they’re against it. But at this point it’s not relevant, because the public is engaged, the public is paying attention, the public is against this, and the public is adamantly against this. All these organizations sort of fall to the wayside when the public weighs in. There are now both Democratic and Republican members of Congress who have reported that their emails and letters and phone calls to their office are running more than a hundred to one against this. People are against it. They’re adamantly against it.

At our website that you mentioned, dontattacksyria.com, in almost no time we’ve attracted 35 signatures on our petition to the Congress and to the president, and we’re going to take those signatures and deliver them to the individual members of Congress, showing in some cases hundreds, if not thousands, of their own constituents are against this attack. So, any organization, like AIPAC or otherwise, cannot operate effectively in the environment that we’re in, where the public is speaking and speaking very loudly.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/5/rep_alan_grayson_on_syria_congress

[Enrique]

3. AIPAC has lost before

even under Bush, in his second term. They wanted war with Iran, Bush didn't oblige them on that.