Pat Buchanan: Boehner Had No Right to Invite Netanyahu

Newsmax ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2015 | Bill Hoffmann

[SunkenCiv]

House Speaker John Boehner made a mistake inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress next month -- and the Israeli prime minister erred by accepting, legendary conservative pundit Pat Buchanan says.

"I disagree with what John Boehner did and I disagree with what the prime minister did," Buchanan said Thursday on "The Steve Malzberg Show," on Newsmax TV.

Netanyahu is set to address Congress on the dangers of Iran's growing nuclear program on March 3 following an invitation by Boehner.

But Boehner did not follow normal protocol by coordinating the invite with the Obama administration, which then announced the president would not meet with Netanyahu.

"It's a mistake to come over here and Boehner to give him time to criticize the foreign policy of the president of the U.S. in the same forum as the State of the Union," Buchanan said.

But the bestselling author and former communications director for President Reagan added that Democratic members of Congress should not boycott Netanyahu's address, as some have hinted they will.

"I don't think we want to compound [Boehner's error]," Buchanan said. "Folks in the Congress of the United States, if they're there, they ought to go and hear the speech."

In addition to spanking Boehner, Buchanan is also fuming at Obama for comparing the extreme barbarity of the Islamic State (ISIS) to the Crusades, in which horrifying acts were carried out a thousand years ago in the name of Jesus Christ.

[ek_hornbeck]

Did it ever occur to you that Reagan relied on his staff not to mislead him

How was Reagan "misled?" He knew that he was at a cemetery where German soldiers were buried - mostly Wehrmacht, and some Waffen SS (whether he knew about the latter or not is irrelevant, Waffen SS were the equivalent of Special Forces. It was the Toten SS that rounded up and murdered civilians).

So you're still left with your assertion that Reagan was a dunce manipulated by an evil puppetmaster, more or less along the lines of what the Left has been saying about him all along. Which isn't all that surprising, because your talking points about Buchanan were basically the Left's talking points when he ran in 1992 and 1996. Incidentally, where were/are all your neoconservative gurus when Buchanan was trying to bring the problem of Third World immigration into our political debate? Oh, that's right, they were condemning him and calling him a "racist xenophobe," just like the Left.

[SunkenCiv]

No, I’m not. You are. Or perhaps you’re saying he deliberately commemorated SS troops? Which is it?