Posted on 02/06/2015 1:14:04 PM PST by 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.
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Buchanan Criticizes Israelis, Boehner For Netanyahu Invite | by Ian Hanchett | 31 Jan 2015
Columnist Pat Buchanan argued that the declining relationship between the US and Israel was due in part to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress on Friday's "McLaughlin Group."
Buchanan argued there was a "deteriorating relationship of the United States and its partner Israel over a number of issues, including this Boehner invitation to Bibi Netanyahu to come to the Congress of the United States, where Obama spoke and trash America's policy on Iran. It has split this city and it has created a real firestorm...I think the US-Israeli relationship is at hard as a point as it's been since 1956 when Ike ordered the Israeli Army out of Sinai."
He continued "I would fault both the Israelis and I would fault Mr. Boehner as well. You do not -- a foreign leader, you do not bring him into the chamber of the Congress and Senate to trash the foreign policy of the United States of America."
How Obama could take on, defeat the Zionist lobby | by Alan Hart | January 29, 2015
A longer version of my headline would be this: "How President Obama could take on and defeat the Zionist lobby and secure for himself the freedom to put America's own best interests first in the Middle East and wider Muslim world."
In the course of a primetime address to his fellow Americans, Obama could do it with just one sentence: "To our Jewish citizens I have to say the time has come for you to decide whether you are Americans first or not."
More on that in a moment.
At the time of writing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress (I think they are best described as traitors) are on a collision course with the Obama administration.
Said the anti-Semite.
Isn’t Pat a flaming anti Semite?
Hey Pat,
Does Obama have the “right” to openly aid the leftist candidates in Israel?
Only Republicans are to play by the rules.
Boehner and Bibi Drum for a Persian War
By Patrick J. Buchanan
January 27, 2015
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/boehner-and-bibi-drum-for-a-persian-war/
The Persians Are Coming!
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 3:13 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan
http://buchanan.org/blog/the-persians-are-coming-15516
http://www.google.com/search?q=persians+are+coming+pat+buchanan
>>”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.
When that president is the enemy of the people (even the short-sighted stupid people who voted for him) and the Constitution, almost anything is appropriate.
Buchanan is only upset that Kissinger still gets the A list Treatment.
He hasn’t been relevant since Nixon.
Buchanan has been insignificant for a long time. He obviously has no idea as to what the Constitution allows the legislative branch to do without “permission” of the executive branch. For all of boner’s many faults, on this one small matter he has it right. That said, he and the rest of the GOPe can ESAD.
He’s the type of guy that misses me Jews and other minorities weren’t allowed Country Club membership.
Go away Pat.
Now, just because he always takes the part of the enemies of the US and of Israel doesn’t make him, uh, wait, what?
“Isn’t Pat a flaming anti Semite?”
I don’t know about that, but he sure is past his “sell by” date!
What is really sad about this, is that it has already come out that Boehner did follow protocol and the whole thing is yet another BS spin job by the lie house.
So we have a conservative castigating a RINO for a non event using made up communist talking points. No wonder they are the stupid party.
There are no written Constitutional “protocols”. F*** the kenyan and the rest of his party of traitors.
Stuff it, Pat.
Yes, Pat hates Jews.
Yes, Pat hates Jews.
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