Posted on 02/03/2015 6:58:05 PM PST by Dave346
Vice President Joe Biden won’t commit to attending Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress next month.
He’s not the only one.
Dozens of House Democrats are privately threatening to skip the March 3 address, according to lawmakers and aides, in in what’s become the lowest point of a relationship between the Israeli prime minister and President Barack Obama that’s never been good.
Democrats have had to balance publicly supporting Israel with backing Obama, who’s trying to close a deal with Iran to curb its nuclear programs over vehement opposition from Netanyahu, who has expressed concerns that the U.S. president is being naive. Negotiations are facing a deadline at the end of March for a political framework.
The speech was devised by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer to provide Netanyahu a prominent Washington platform to warn about the dangers of the proposed deal with Iran.
Ever since the uproar over the invitation first exploded two weeks ago, the Israelis have worked to try to quash any question of partisan maneuvering. On Tuesday, an Israeli official said they’re hoping the situation will be resolved by the time Netanyahu arrived in Washington.
“We appreciate the great bipartisan support for Israel in Congress and hope that members of Congress will be willing to listen to the prime minister on an issue which threatens America’s national security, and Israel’s very survival,” the official said.
Boehner’s office says he doesn’t plan to reschedule the speech, which had already been moved from Feb. 11 to March 3 so Netanyahu can attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference.
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yes, a few Jewish D’s will wake up and stop slavishly voting for “their” party.... (something as OBVIOUS as the D contingent not attending Boehner’s Bibi visit/speech.....will force them to wake up and realize that the D party apparatus has been infiltrated and purchased and taken over by The IslamoNazi Enemy of America)
BUT frankly, I would not stay up late at night hoping for a massive shift in their voting pattern. Some of these folks have their heads so far up their butts that they may never see daylight again......
...and yet Jews keep supporting these anti-Semites! I don’t get it!
With America it’s always “negotiations, negotiations.” With Jordan it’s balls to the wall. Enough seen and heard.
It sounds like a great opportunity to hold a couple of budget votes.
Jewish voters didn’t desert the Obamanation in 2012 when his anti-Israel/anti-Netanyahu proclivities were already in evidence, so IMO a Demonrat boycott of Bibi won’t make much difference.
Good. Hopefully American Jews will awaken to the truth that the Demon Rat party doesn’t give a damn about them or their nation.
I’m betting Drunken, Crying John caves and disinvites Bibi. The time will be filled with a round of Tea Party bashing.
The DNC booed God and Israel at their last convention. I expect the democrats to be openly antisemitic if not in 2016 then by 2020. Shunning the leader of the only democracy in the Middle East makes sense to them, since Netanyahu is Jewish and their voters increasingly hate Jews.
man,
don’t ya just hope this eats at obammy’s gut.
” It’s like playing Simon Says! Obama says-
hands on head, Democrats put hands on
head. Obama says-arms at side,
Democrats put arms at sides. Obama
says-lay on floor, Democrats lay on the
floor,....on and on and on.”
I can totally see this as a campaign commercial and then it morphs into the Hokey Pokey.
that would be their Black messiah, an elite nincompoop disgrace to America
Dozens of Democrats will stay away from the Capitol that day? Sounds like a good day to schedule the votes to overturn Obama’s vetoes of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Homeland Security budget, etc.
Have they gone mad? They were never sane.
Taking names, making a list, sending out to Jews all over the US.
Hey Democrat schmucks. We use Al Gore’s internet too.
Especially targeted will be Jewish Democrats like leftists Schumer, Wasserman-Schulz, Cardin the Clueless, et. al.
Know your enemies, your Quislings, your traitors!
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (where some of my relatives were probably killed), I say without hesitation - “Never Again”!
Re the quote “Those who the gods would destroy, they first make mad”. Well the gods never met a far-left liberal Democrat. They are such mental cases that they would drive the gods crazy.
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Is Boehner showing any signs of withdrawing the invitation? THAT is what the WH really wants.
Bibi won’t lose his nerve...
They ran away in Texas also in 2003. Democrats just suck.
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