WHIP LIST: Dems skipping Netanyahu speech (26 to boycott, 71 to attend, rest unknown)

The Hill ^ | updated on Feb. 24 at 2:29 p.m | Mike Lillis

[Dave346]

Netanyahu is expected to criticize the White House’s negotiations on Iran's nuclear program in his March 3 speech.

SKIPPING

House (23)

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (Ore.), Rep. G.K. Butterfield (N.C.), Rep. Andre Carson (Ind.), Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.), Rep. Donna Edwards (Md.), Rep. Keith Ellison (Minn.), Rep. Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.), Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (Ill.), Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.), Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas), Rep. Barbara Lee (Calif.), Rep. John Lewis (Ga.), Rep. Betty McCollum (Minn.), Rep. Jim McDermott (Wash.), Rep. Gregory Meeks (N.Y.), Rep. Beto O'Rourke (Texas), Rep. Chellie Pingree (Maine), Rep. Charles Rangel (N.Y.), Rep. Cedric Richmond (La.), Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.), Rep. John Yarmuth (Ky.)

Senate (3)

Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Brian Schatz (Hawaii)

ATTENDING

House (57)

Senate (14)

[clintonh8r]

Most of the congressional black ca-cas......

[DaveA37]

Most of them would probably be sleeping during the speech anyway so they would not be missed. They already know what Netenyahu will be saying will be the truth and they can’t face the truth. Better to hide under the bed to avoid the boogy man.

[jdsteel]

Fine; they wouldn’t HEAR it even if they were there.

[mkmensinger]

It seems to me this would be a good opportunity to override Obama’s Keystone Pipeline veto. Declare a quorum, 2/3 of those present and voting vote to override.

[Gator113]

That would be beautiful.

[Hulka]

Yet, sadly, Jewish Americans will overwhelmingly vote democrat every time. . .

[Frank_2001]

I noticed that as well. The two known Muslims wouldn’t want to be in the same room with Netanyahu anyway! /s;)

[Reno89519]

I still say this will get canceled or rescheduled before next week. It is a meaningless sideshow anyway. (And yes, I know some Israeli-lovers in this group put them over the US, but I do think Boehner was wrong, US is first, and inviting a foreign leader to come to the US, to the Capital and trash our foreign policy—even if led by a loser like Obama—is wrong. It is bad politics, will be seen as bad by most Americans, and, ultimately, it will be bad for Israel. Stupid move and another reason to get rid of idiots like Boehner trying to score political points at the cost of American decorum.)

[VeniVidiVici]

Most if not all of the Communist Black Caucus, the Islamists and a sprinkling of socialists.

[dowcaet]

So I see ol Luis G won’t be attending either. I guess if Bibi was an illegal alien from Mexico he would’ve attended. Just what exactly is the ethnic makeup of his congressional district in Chicago anyways?

[madison10]

I was wondering about that.

[ModelBreaker]

This is mostly popcorn time stuff. Leftists have to choose whether to offend black voters or Jewish voters. They have their fingers frantically in the wind wishing this would just go away.

[smoothsailing]

It is a meaningless sideshow anyway.

The people listed above who are on record as no-shows for Netanyahu's speech probably would agree with you. You do realize that those people are composed of communists, socialists, muslims, and just all around anti-American dipwads, don't you?

[Slings and Arrows]

Gee, both the Mohammedans are boycotting. What a co-inky-dink.

[Zenjitsuman]

That is alright reading the list the ones listed wouldn’t understand Bibi anyway.

[Reno89519]

Doesn’t matter and I don’t care who these people are. At the end of the day it is bad and will be bad for Republicans and for Israeli supporters to have Boehner bring Netanyahu into the Capital to trash the US. Stupid and bad. This is beyond partisan politics, it is a matter of respect for America. Even and maybe especially as a conservative American, a veteran, I take offense to some foreign leader, whether the president of Mexico or from Israel, coming here and trashing the US and our policies. It doesn’t matter if it Obama or Bush or Clinton or whoever was in the White House. This is a matter of respecting America first. Boehner is undermining the US for cheap political points.

[youngphys01]

Perhaps a vital jolt needed for the 75 % or so of Jews who voted for Obama? And yes, I did find poll results that say that 75 % of American jews voted for Obama and how I hope I just read them wrong or misunderstood what the polls say. In any event, at least now we have further proof that the idea of Democrats being a pro Israel Party is just a huge sack of manure.

[erkelly]

You sound like a very liberal, pointy-head academic democrat trying to be oh so reasonable; the democrats are oh-so-intelligent and reasonable and open-minded, and never wrong about what is good for America, no matter how destructive it obviously is. (Such as Obama’s position that stopping amnesty for illegals will damage national security, for example.) Here you are setting the poor dumb republicans to rights about how they are really wrong and not doing what is right for America, because it is so wrong to not support the democrat president, in the name of “respecting the office” or some such nonsense. For heavens sake, if you are not a liberal democrat, if you are really a conservative, stop this damaging/damning of our side, our point of view, our actions, right now! Your kind of “reasonableness” is exactly how dedicated and committed conservatives get talked into being squishes once they are elected to public office!

[Reno89519]

Why don’t YOU respect America and stop looking for any cheap political stunt or banal comment to dismiss that others might find it inappropriate for any foreign leader to come to America and trash us?

And the idiocy of being rude and throwing baseless accusations around because someone thinks different than you shows your shallowness. Call you on it? Yes, absolutely.