President No Comes Into His Own - Showing respect for one’s enemies — unless they be Republicans

The American Spectator ^ | January 22, 2015 | Jeffrey Lord

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Call him President No. He doesn’t want to cut taxes. He will veto any attempt to overturn the mess of Obamacare. He is adamant about opposing anyone who wants to undoing his executive order on amnesty, or his sudden turnabout of U.S. policy on Cuba. He won’t say yes to the Keystone XL pipeline. And hell will freeze over before he utters the words “radical Islamic terrorism.”

Now the White House is furious that Speaker John Boehner has issued a February 11th invitation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, this just hours after the president made it clear that he would say no to any new sanctions on Iran. “But new sanctions passed by this Congress, at this moment in time, will all but guarantee that diplomacy fails  —  alienating America from its allies; and ensuring that Iran starts up its nuclear program again,” Obama said. “It doesn’t make sense. That is why I will veto any new sanctions bill that threatens to undo this progress.”

Boehner disagreed, and in an action that had more than a whiff of Congress saying that two can play the game of unilateral actions, Netanyahu was invited to give his views. The president’s men, stung, angrily snapped that Boehner had “breached protocol.” Boehner calmly replied that he wasn’t “poking anyone in the eye.”

There could be no clearer picture of what the next two years — the last two years — of the Obama presidency will look like. The roles suddenly reversed, Republicans in Congress will be proposing, and a veto pen-wielding Mr. Obama will say no. No, no, and no again.

One hopes Republicans will be able to stick to their beliefs. .....

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>One hopes Republicans will be able to stick to their beliefs<<<

I hope they stick with OUR Beliefs.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

: )

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Bullish]

Do Republicans deserve any respect at this point?

Lord, I wish I had a party I could be proud of again.

[Star Traveler]

I look forward to hearing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak before a joint session of Congress and against Obama’s actions on Iran!

[RKBA Democrat]

Kabuki theatre.

[Diogenesis]

[HomerBohn]

Netanyahu was invited to give his views. The president’s men, stung, angrily snapped that Boehner had “breached protocol.”

Gee! John finally did something right for a change!

Wonder who the president's 'man' was who charged JB with breaching protocol?

[SunkenCiv]

Obama was probably in on the multinational terrorist plan to start a new war with Israel, during which he'd use his usual overreach to deny aid while being unavailable for comment due to golf (or due to summit meetings with his fellow western hemisphere despots, or both). The Israelis used a grenade and a funnel on that plan, and now Speaker Boehner has humiliated Zero, Plus, Lurch, Jarrett and the rest with this invitation. *This* was the correct Republican response to the SOTU.

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• White House: Netanyahu Visit a 'Departure from Protocol' (well done, Mr. Speaker!!)
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• Boehner rolls out welcome mat to Netanyahu for Iran speech; Update:
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