Source: spectator.org - Monday, March 02, 2015
For all the accusations that House Speaker John Boehner has been engaging in partisanship by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress concerning Iran’s nuclear ambitions, it is the Obama administration and congressional Democrats who are making a partisan issue of Netanyahu’s speech. The Obama White House has gone in full Alinsky mode on Netanyahu — whether it’s Press Secretary Josh Earnest and State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki questioning Netanyahu’s honesty, National Security Adviser Susan Rice claiming the speech would be “destructive” to U.S.-Israeli relations, or Secretary of State John Kerry admonishing Bibi for supporting the War in Iraq. Kerry’s admonition is precious considering that he too once supported the same war. But no matter. Netanyahu is the target and he has been frozen, personalized, and polarized. Congressional Democrats are doing their part by boycotting Netanyahu’s speech. As of this writing, 37 Democrats have indicated they will not attend (including Vice President Joe Biden in his capacity as President of the Senate). Among the other Democrats who will not be present include Senator Patrick Leahy who called the speech “a tawdry and high-handed stunt.” Leahy’s Vermont Senate colleague Bernie Sanders (a socialist who caucuses with Democrats) as well as members of the Congressional Black Caucus including John Lewis, Charles Rangel, and Congress’s lone
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For all the accusations that House Speaker John Boehner has been engaging in partisanship by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress concerning Iran’s nuclear ambitions, it is the Obama administration and congressional Democrats who are making a partisan issue of Netanyahu’s speech. The Obama White House has gone in full Alinsky mode on Netanyahu — whether it’s Press Secretary Josh Earnest and State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki questioning Netanyahu’s honesty, National Security Adviser Susan Rice claiming the speech would be “destructive” to U.S.-Israeli relations, or Secretary of State John Kerry admonishing Bibi for supporting the War in Iraq. Kerry’s admonition is precious considering that he too once supported the same war. But no matter. Netanyahu is the target and he has been frozen, personalized, and polarized. Congressional Democrats are doing their part by boycotting Netanyahu’s speech. As of this writing, 37 Democrats have indicated they will not attend (including Vice President Joe Biden in his capacity as President of the Senate). Among the other Democrats who will not be present include Senator Patrick Leahy who called the speech “a tawdry and high-handed stunt.” Leahy’s Vermont Senate colleague Bernie Sanders (a socialist who caucuses with Democrats) as well as members of the Congressional Black Caucus including John Lewis, Charles Rangel, and Congress’s lone
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