Posted on 02/06/2015 12:57:03 PM PST by yoe
Leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are lining up to skip a coming speech by the prime minister of Israel.
Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the civil rights icon, and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), the chairman of the CBC, said they won't attend Benjamin Netanyahu's March 3 speech before Congress to protest Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) decision to invite the prime minister without first consulting President Obama and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill.
Butterfield said that move marked an "unprecedented overreach of the Speaker’s authority" that "goes beyond the traditions of his office."
"It is baffling that Speaker Boehner, who incessantly proclaims executive overreach by the president, would buck long standing diplomatic protocol to extend such an invitation," Butterfield said in a statement.
"His actions unnecessarily politicize our steadfast relationship with Israel, and potentially subvert U.S. foreign policy," he added. "The United States is and will remain Israel’s strongest ally. However, I refuse to be a part of a political stunt aimed at undercutting President Obama.”
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Good. Show EVERYONE exactly who you are, you racist, Jew-hating jerks!
Obama hates white people in general, and Israel in particular.
I think the Dems understand that Netanyahu shouldn’t cast pearls before swine, and are doing their part.
Racist Nazi Jerks can go to Hell!
“Surrogate Jews bite the hand that feeds them and won’t attend bibi’s speech”
What is almost the most amazing part of this whole story is that Boehner hasn’t folded.
I thought he would have given up, with apologies, last week.
What gives, this is so unlike him?
Good! That many less Democrats to desecrate the place.
Good. No one wants their sorry racist asses there anyway.
They’re Dems. And, it’s not like blacks and Jews get along all that well, either. Moreover, the Black Caucus thinks Obama is one of them. Birds of a feather...
Anti-semitic A-hole.
The CBC will be around long after your boy king is gone and our allies will continue to consult you through your terms and each administration.
You have an obligation not to turn this into some asinine political stunt, without presenting your strawman and making the whole thing appear to have some racist motivation.
What the Black Caucus is saying is: "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy."
Agreed. I could see not a complete fold, but at least a partial one - change of time, change of venue... but no, steadfast at least on this issue.
“Good! That many less Democrats to desecrate the place.”
Here’s an idea, offer their empty seats to people who would like to hear what Bibi has to say. Let him play to a packed house.Oh, and give anyone who sits in a vacant seat a Blue Shirt so the TV audience sees just how many RATs missed the visit.
Big loss!!
After Pelosi "threatens" to skip the speech and her publicity stunt managers thought better of it, she got her stooge, er her good friend John Lewis and colleagues from the Black Caucasians to "protest."
Maybe John Lewis can don a tee shirt claiming "black congressmen matter"and stand outside with their collective hands in the air, asking Netanyahu not to "shoot!"
“Good! That many less Democrats to desecrate the place.”
Here’s an idea, offer their empty seats to people who would like to hear what Bibi has to say. Let him play to a packed house.Oh, and give anyone who sits in a vacant seat a Blue Shirt so the TV audience sees just how many RATs missed the visit.
Is calling them anti Semites, racist?
Like the black Dems support Israel, anyway.
This is not about Obama.
This is about the fact that the Democrat Party abandoned Israel.
They BOOOOED Jerusalem being the capital of Israel.
This would be a great opportunity for Bohner to state the truth and say that they are ANTI- SEMITIC. It would be no different than all the times these clowns pulled the race card on conservatives. What is good for the goose, is good for the gander.
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