Every so often Boehner gets it right.
One of the many lies told by Obama last night during his SOTU address was this one:
Our diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where, for the first time in a decade, we’ve halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material. Between now and this spring, we have a chance to negotiate a comprehensive agreement that prevents a nuclear-armed Iran; secures America and our allies — including Israel; while avoiding yet another Middle East conflict. There are no guarantees that negotiations will succeed, and I keep all options on the table to prevent a nuclear Iran. But new sanctions passed by this Congress, at this moment in time, will all but guarantee that diplomacy fails — alienating America from its allies; and ensuring that Iran starts up its nuclear program again. It doesn’t make sense. That is why I will veto any new sanctions bill that threatens to undo this progress. The American people expect us to only go to war as a last resort, and I intend to stay true to that wisdom.
He hasn’t stopped anything. Instead he has retreated from sanctions while getting NOTHING in return.
Mark Dubowitz of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a sanctions expert, said without equivocation: “The interim agreement has not ‘frozen’ or ‘halted’ Iran’s military-nuclear program. Following a strategy followed by then-chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rouhani between 2003 and 2005, Tehran has suspended only aspects of the program that no longer need significant advancement, while working on aspects not yet mastered.” He adds, “This includes, among other areas, the development of long-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and, most critically, Iranian stonewalling of the IAEA about possible military dimensions of Iran’s program.”
Josh Block, a long-time Democrat and CEO of the Israel Project, reiterated the two falsehoods Obama propounded. “For over a year the admin has claimed, falsely, that Iran’s nuclear program has been ‘frozen and their progress halted’ during the talks — talks we were told would only last 6 months, yet are now heading toward 19 months (June 30th),” he said via e-mail. “Far from being ‘halted,’ during the negotiations, Iran has enriched at least one more bomb’s worth of material, has advanced its plutonium track to 87% completion, and just, announced it will build 2 more nuclear facilities. Does that sound ‘frozen’ to you?” Block, like other outside Iran experts, also chastised the president for inferring that Congress was about to pass sanctions that would immediately go into effect, thereby thwarting the negotiations[.]
So what does Boehner do? Invite the Isreali Prime Minister to address a joint session of Congress describing just how evil this Iranian regime is.
Rebuffing President Barack Obama on Iran, House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday he had invited Israel’s prime minister to address a joint meeting of Congress next month about the threats from Tehran and radical Islam.
The Republican leader released a letter extending the invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu for Feb. 11. Boehner also told a private meeting of GOP lawmakers that Congress would proceed on new penalties against Iran despite Obama’s warning that any legislation would scuttle diplomatic negotiations over the country’s nuclear program.
“You may have seen that on Friday, the president warned us not to move ahead with sanctions on Iran, a state sponsor of terror,” Boehner told colleagues, according to his office. “His exact message to us was: ‘Hold your fire.’ He expects us to stand idly by and do nothing while he cuts a bad deal with Iran.
“Two words: ‘Hell no!’ … We’re going to do no such thing,” the speaker said.
Brilliant. Not many times can I use that word to describe actions by Boehner but I will give him credit when it’s due.
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@Randy: DA! I thought it was DF, oh well. All Greg manages to say is that he said it. He’s not able to say what it is.
@Greg: So here is what you said in 118
So here are the only 2 things. Netanyahu gets to make a speech to the US that his oppositon party in Israel might not agree with (does the opposition party ever agree? and wouldn’t the opposition prefer he give it in the US instead of in Israel?)
And Boehner get to attack the Obama administration. Are you saying that if Netanyahu doesn’t make the speech that Boehner won’t be able to attack the Obama Administration? The way I interpret that is that neither is ‘getting’ a favor from the other. I just don’t see how Netanyahu making a speech enables Boehner to attack anyone to the extent he can’t already do.
That’s kind’ve like saying that Boehner is reaching for a beer and Netanyahu is closer so he hands it to him is doing Boehner the favor of letting him drink the same beer he was going to drink without it being handed.
Greg, who is controlling the spotlight and who is in the spotlight and who is watching the spotlight?
@Redteam, #152:
The favors they are exchanging are not things of minor significance. The success or failure of a U.S. diplomatic initiative could be affected by what Netanyahu says. Whether we go to war with Iran or not could be affected. This is a lever that should not have been placed in his hands.
@Greg:
and yet, you can’t even say what the ‘favors’ are. How can you consider Boehner talking to Obama to ‘be a favor’? Why is it not a favor to the opposition party to get Netanyahu out of the country? I think if he’s doing a favor, it’s to Obama and to Netanyahu’s opposition. Any more jokes?
I’m having no trouble explaining what is being exchanged. The obvious problem is that you can’t or won’t understand it.
@Greg: So what you are saying is that if the US voters hear about the real situation in the Middle-East, it may affect Obama’s diplomatic stance? That sounds like a good thing based upon how successful Obama has been in the Middle-East!
Do you believe that Benjamin Netanyaho’s primary concern is the safety and security of the United States, or do you think it’s possible he might have some other priority?
@Greg:
Let’s put this in a nutshell. Greg, you are basically saying that as the rest of the Jew hating part of the world in correct and the rest of us are definitely wrong, Boehner has no right to call out the lie that is not only the so called “religion of Peace, but in fact show the world the the utter ignorance that is the Obama administration in regards to their sorry assed foreign policy.
Now let me once again help the lefties get their panties in a wad. The Radical Islamist movement is every bit as evil and maybe more as was Nazi Germany! That is the cold hard facts as shown by their actions! They are out to annihilate not only Israel and the Jewish world in general, but in fact also want anyone who follows our ways of life eliminated. furthermore, do not even get me started on what will happen to the gays! Funny isn’t it? You so called lefties, while putting forth your pro-gay agenda, refuse to even acknowledge the danger to gays as to radical Islam. And you have the utter gall to call yourselves as for the people! Disgusting!
Here is the truth. The President and his idiots at State and more have been flat out lying to us as to the Muslim problem. This President has gone out of his way to accommodate his Muslim Brethern as he said he would. He has deliberately chosen to lie to us (notice I say lie, not mislead) at every turn in everything he does. Randy id #156 makes a good point and let me say one thing as to that. If brain dead lemmings will listen to Bibi when he speaks and open their eyes to the truth, one will realize that not one person should give a damn about this President and his diplomatic stances.
Ideology can blind people and Greg, just as mind dead idiots are certainly blind to the realities because of his sick allegiance to proven failed policies as to this President’s socialistic beliefs but even worse, his beliefs that only the President can be taken at his word! Last time I looked, Obama is just a man, and in my view an extremely pathetic excuse of a man a t that. As such, it is my responsibility as a concerned citizen to seek out the truth, especially if one’s leaders choose to ignore it or worse pull a 1984 rendition of lying to the people until they think its the truth act out of their asses. And make no mistake of this. the lies and precedents this no count is feeding us, if not countered with truth and the will to stand up to traitorous bastards as we now have in our halls of Government has us on the edge of downfall.
Not only do we need Bibi to speak, we need those of us to care to stop taking the crap fed by the like of Greg and those (and let’s not forget here, there are also the same kind of people on the right) and demand the truth!
I’m Jewish.I have no intention of allowing this Anti-Semite President and his Jew hating lackeys to aid and abet a repeat of the horrors that were the Holocust! Yet, you and your ilk refuse to allow the the truth to be spoken? more that that, I am a U.S. Citizen and I truly believe this President and those who march lockstep with him are a cancer that must be eradicated! As I said really early on in this thread. I pray Boehner and the rest do not allow their cajones to once again shrink!
How anyone can sit here and feed us the tripe we get from you and the rest of the trolls amaze me when in fact it is apparent this President is doing everything in hos power to give Iran enough time to get its bomb. Yet you and the rest want “negotiation” from an idiot knowing full well that Iran, just as N. Korea, just as Nazi Germany have absolutely no intention of living up to any agreement they make!
I want the truth Greg! This President does not know what the truth is about anything other than his idea that the U,.S is the problem in the world.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-targets-netanyahu-children-for-assassination/
By all means, let’s not upset the delicate sensitivities of the Iranians.
@Greg:
I am absolutely certain that the top priority of Netanyahu is his nation’s and his people’s safety, interests and security; particularly since no one else in the world seems to give a goddamn about it. However, part of that security is tied to what the United States does and as the United States bends over, kisses its own ass and invites Iran, a nation that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map, to produce nuclear weapons and ICBM’s, it is in Netanyahu’s and Israel’s best interest to do whatever they can to dissuade the US from making such a stupid mistake, particularly since the treat is aimed at us as well.
I would think that should be pretty clear.
@joetote:
Far more so, since unlike the Nazis, who had to rely on shooting Jews in a ditch, asphyxiating them in the back of specially equipped trucks or gassing them in camps, the radical Islamists are trying to get their hands on nuclear weapons with which to give mass genocide a new definition. And, make no mistake about it whatsoever, they WILL DO IT because they are CRAZY. What Greg, Obama and the rest of the apologists do not realize is that Israel will not simply sit back and watch it happen. They WILL defend themselves and they have the means to do it, with gusto. Is that what the apologists want; a nuclear conflagration in the Middle East?
Dang, you ignorant leftists, at least consider the global warming aspects of a nuclear exchange; that seems to be about the only concern you have in the world. Damn, we are in dire danger with these idiots in charge.
@joetote, #158:
No, to be perfectly clear, that’s what you’re saying I’ve said. It’s a total distortion. The thinking on the right seems to be that anyone who doesn’t embrace the hard-line policies of Benjamin Netanyahu must be a Jew-hater or an enemy of Israel. Not everyone in Israel embraces the hard-line policies of Benjamin Netanyahu. I think the man has become a loose cannon. He cannot be allowed to believe that the United States will back whatever move he makes. It isn’t safe for either the United States or Israel to allow him to think that. He could easily drag us into something we really don’t want to get into.
There are people on the right who seem to believe that the United States can enter into some Grand Military Crusade in the Middle East that will once and for all resolve all of our geopolitical concerns in the region. This, in my opinion, is dangerously delusional thinking. There is no Nazi Germany there to defeat. You can’t bomb their population centers, railroad lines, bridges, and industrial infrastructures out of existence, thereby forcing them to surrender. The malignant ideology infecting Islam isn’t attached to or centralized in any particular nation or government. It’s a constantly moving target, and a great nation could easily bleed itself dry chasing it around from one place to another in a never-ending series of ground wars.
I think encouraging us to do that is probably the extremists’ strategy. That’s how asymmetrical warfare is successfully conducted against a vastly stronger opponent. You encourage them to defeat themselves. I, for one, don’t believe we should cooperate with their plans. We saw what happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan. We’ve seen the results in Iraq. Can anybody honestly think it would be a good idea to enter into a war with Iran?
@Greg: Well, Greg, ISIS is a state. It is a state looking for territory and Obama handed them a large swath of it. They happen to possess a refinery which they use to generate cash with which to fund their war. Why haven’t we taken that out?
Delusional is ignoring the obvious. An army in the field is not going to be defeated by declaring they are already defeated. ISIS has enjoyed such success that they are going to have to be defeated to show they CAN be defeated and stem the flow of recruits. The first step is happening in Kobani. However, the half-assed effort put forth by this administration has dragged the process out and cost the Kurds dearly. Thanks to the miserable job Obama has done in expressing a will to defeat radical Islam, to get allies on OUR side, it needs to be US defeating ISIS with the Kurds fighting with us, not the other way around. Sadly, it will be necessary for US troops to again be in combat, but Obama will pass this decision off onto whoever follows him to clean up his mess.
What is totally delusional is believing that you can tweet kidnapped girls free. Delusional is thinking you can win the hearts and minds of radical Islamists that want to kill you by denying they exist. What is embarrassingly delusional is denying, in front of cameras and adults, that the Taliban is not a terrorist organization. The very definition of delusional is expecting Iranians, who can smell weakness and lack of will in the water, to be shamed into abiding by agreements they never agreed to in the first place.
Delusion WILL drag us into another war. Obama is delusional, as are anyone that supports him in his errant path.
It’s not like the Obama administration is doing nothing, though you’d never know it from the right-wing media. An estimated 6,000 ISIS fighters have been killed by coalition forces. That’s thought to include around half of their upper-level command structure. Some of their video “celebrity” butchers are thought to be dead now. The bodies of their dropped off wounded are piling up quicker than local hospitals can get rid of them.
@Greg: Kurds who we are not providing adequate weapons. Let Obama take credit for it though!
@Greg: Wasn’t Yemen part of the coalition? So much for Obama’s efforts there!
Republican hotheads were ready for military action in response to the Russian incursion into Ukraine. They seem to have the same solution to every problem. Measured, carefully calculated responses and patience often tend to work better. We inflict less damage on ourselves that way.
@Greg:
Who were these hot heads? No, most expressed frustration with Obama’s projected weakness inviting the Russians to make such bold moves, putting Eastern Europe at risk.
Meanwhile, the ISIS army has grown to over 100,000. When they broke out, they numbered around 8,000. Had we left the residual force in Iraq, as every intelligent mind recommended, that force would never have been able to coalesce, much less grow to its current size and take over the territory it has conquered. Think of the lives that would have been saved.
Yeah, right. And if we’d never invaded Iraq in the first place, no residual forces would have been needed and none of this would be happening. Our intelligence community warned about this outcome before we even got started. So what’s the point? Circumstances now are what they are. The current objective should be to try not to make any more dumb mistakes, not to justify the dumb mistakes we made previously.
@Greg:
Remember how Joe Biden said that Iraq was going to be Obama’s real success story? Then Libya? Now Yemen?
Perhaps you should convey that message to Obama.
Guys it is time to leave this thread. Greg is so ignorant he will never understand the real issues.
@Greg:
If Clinton had not gutted the CIA and taken care of bin Laden when he had multiple opportunities, 9/11 would never have happened. If the dog had not stopped to shit, he’d have caught the rabbit. Point?
Fact is, we DID invade Iraq, and for viable reasons. What’s more, after suffering many casualties, deaths and at great cost, Iraq was pacified and in a position to establish a stable government. Obama wrecked that and enabled the ISIS eruption. I repeat, ISIS would not be in the position of threat and power today were it not for Obama’s agenda.
No argument there. Everyone warned of creating a vacuum of power in Iraq. Again, need I remind you who ultimately created that vacuum, which quickly sucked ISIS into it? NOTE: there was no “vacuum” until US forces were prematurely removed.
@Bill:
“And, make no mistake about it whatsoever, they WILL DO IT because they are CRAZY. ”
As I’ve said far to many times. You cannot negotiate with a madman
@Greg:
Same old bullshit Greg. thinking minds won’t but it! Not only does Boehner and every person in this land have the right to call Obama and his minions out, nut is is our responsibility. I’m really beginning to think you hate not only Israel and the Jews but in fact you hate this country as mush as Obama does. And as to that account my disgust for you and those like you keeps getting deeper.
Don’t you dare to lecture me about Bibi or the rights of the speaker to invite them. Furthermore the real loose cannons are those like yourself who under our right to free speech and thought, something that apparently only is only allowed in your mind if one agrees with you and your leader’s asinine policies, in fact have a voice to show the idiocy and hatred openly.
Again, and I apologize to those who think I’m beyond harsh, but the fact is I only feel disgust towards you and those like you. So spew away Greggie. It’s always good to listen to all sides, especially when one side makes it easier to see the facts by openly espousing idiocy or more.
@Randy:
Randy,
Hell, ignorance is bliss. Greg once again proves the old adage, foot in mouth disease. But what the hell, look who he worships! Isn’t it funny how this President and his followers like Greg try to defend the indefensible?
Its not just ignorance and worse its not that he is delusional as someone said above. It is the fact that he believes in and adheres to the failed policies that have been part of the indoctrination by the haters of this country and our Democracy as a whole.
@joetote, #174:
Then you’re not thinking very clearly. You don’t have any more clue who I am or what my background might be than I do of you.
I’m not lecturing you. I’m expressing an opinion, which I only feel compelled to do to counter the nonsense the political right is pitching 24/7. What they think or say wouldn’t matter to me in the least except for the fact that every time they get enough people on board, the people they elect start breaking things. God only knows what the current passel of idiots would do, given free rein. I prefer to not find out. I don’t want to know with certainty what the full consequences for America would be of a ground war with Iran, or of a war with Russia, or of dispensing with the nation’s social safety net, or of allowing the wealthiest 1 percent to continue to expand their power, influence, and control without the constraint of a more rational progressive tax schedule. I’m smart enough to project the probable results for the average American without having to see them actually realized.
Greg,
First, Iran has been in a war footing with the US since 1979. We are the Great Satan. They always seek to destroy the Great Satan as that is their raison d’etre.
Second, Russia is in a state of war with everyone else since they attacked Georgia – the country Greg – way back when. They invaded, occupied and still occupy Crimea – which was part of the Ukraine. They are in Eastern Ukraine – troops, equipment and material – fighting the Ukrainian military.
Third, history shows that the overwhelming fear of the consequences of war usually means that the nation is defeated in war almost immediately. The US, European nations were unprepared for World War II because they listened to the fears and did not do their jobs as the political leaders of the nations.
As for you – I think this quote qualifies
“He either fears his fate too much, Or his desserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all!” James Graham, 5th Earl of Montrose
@Greg:
The only nonsense I’m reading here is yours. As a branch of the Federal Government, Congress is fully within it’s rights and powers to invite whomever they wish to speak before them. You certainly had no problem with it when it was the President of Mexico, nor when Nancy Pelosi did the same thing. With Obama refusing to meet with Bibi and claiming it is because he doesn’t want to influence the Israeli elections, while at the same time his State Department while at the same time sending Obama’s campaign operatives to Israel to interfere in their election underwritten by our State Department, a reasonable thinker can only conclude that Obama is a liar who is trying to implement leadership change on one of our nations few allies in the region. This same Obama State Department meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood and under administration orders supporting both Iran and Palestine in negotiations while ignoring the concerns of an allied nation, Congress certainly has both the right and power to look into how the President is and his political machine are mistreating Israel, and the administration representing the exact opposite of what the majority of Americans feel towards Israel, Iran, and muslim extremists.
Your hatred for the Bibi the leader of our ally Israel (and I expect Israel as well, as most on the left who hate Bibi show the same feeling towards Israel,) while defending Obama’s embracing of those who hate us and call us enemy makes it clear to us that you want to see Israel destroyed.
Except you are a hater. A conservative, Republican and Israel hating troll who comes here only to pick a fight and spread your Obama worshiping propaganda. If you think you’re effective and changing minds here you are sorely mistaken.
Your messiah Obama is trying every socialist trick in the book to break this nation, and invalidate our Constitution so that he can turn it into a failed nation like the third world land of his father and you have the nerve to come here and whine about Republican “interfering” with his despotic America hating plans? Bwaaaahaha!
For those who missed it: New York Times Forced to Correct Netanyahu Speech Timeline
Blue State Blues: Why the Left Hates Bibi, the Modern Man
So Greg, where is your ire against Georgetown U for violating the Logan Act?
@John+Hardesty, #177:
That’s largely a matter of posturing that goes with their internal politics. Posturing aside, Iran can’t seriously damage the United States without our cooperation. Our cooperation would involve sending an enormously expensive invasion force halfway around the world to occupy another territory that we can’t possibly impose our will upon forever. In the meantime, we would be knocking the only remaining Sunni military power out of the picture—having already reduced Iraq to a militarily crippled state that can’t even protect itself—leaving a wide open field for the Shiite lunacy that threatens to sweep the entire region. Sunni Iran may talk about “the Great Satan” to rile up the locals, but Sunni’s didn’t finance and carry out 9/11. They aren’t doing everything in their power to export terrorist lunacy to the West. Sunni’s are a sectarian minority, persecuted in the places where the lunacy has taken hold. Iran has more than enough to worry about without going to war with Israel or the United States.
Iran might not be a friend of the United States for generations, but they could prove to be a useful enemy, just as Iraq was when Saddam was keeping al Qaeda—a Shia terrorist organization—out. Do you not see that there might be some logic in that?
@Ditto, #178:
As has been pointed out, it wasn’t the same thing. Pelosi didn’t negotiate any deals with Assad. She met with him and conveyed a message back that he would be willing to negotiate with the Bush administration. The Bush administration declined to do so, so that was the end of that.
As to the President of Mexico, he was invited to speak with the knowledge and consent of the Executive Branch. The invitation didn’t represent direct interference with ongoing Executive Branch negotiations.
Georgetown University can invite whoever they wish. They’re an educational institution. They’re not a part of the U.S. government and their assembly halls are not the halls of government. They don’t represent anyone but Georgetown University.
NYT tried to promote an anti-Netanyahu talking point that #Israel blindsided Obama.
They got just 1 tiny detail wrong.
Correction: January 30, 2015
An earlier version of this article misstated when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel accepted Speaker John A. Boehner’s invitation to address Congress.
He accepted after the administration had been informed of the invitation, not before.
OOPS!
Nevermind!
(Obama says in Letita voice.)
ED LASKY:
The White House deliberately created this “crisis” to impugn Netanyahu and undercut support for him and Israel. No less than Senator Harry Reid blamed this diplomatic faux paus entirely on Boehner and Netanyahu for undercutting support for Israel among Democrats . The media, or much of it, has been relentlessly attacking Israel over a lie promoted by people in the administration.
@John+Hardesty: Iran was actively participating in Iraq. They killed US soldiers and tried to kidnap several officers but were caught trying to flee back into Iran. They killed the US officers and escaped.
@Nanny: There is “no less” than Stunt Man Reid.
A couple days ago we learned that Obama, having a strong desire to torpedo Bibi and Likud in Israel’s up-coming election had sent his own campaign team into Israel to help a coalition of liberals and non-Jews win over Likud.
The way elections are done in Israel is you vote for a PARTY.
That party then gets to place officers based on their % of the total vote.
So, the party with the most gets to name the Prime Minister.
Now, Bibi was perennially one of the most popular politicians in Israel, but Likud, his party, had struggled.
Especially has this been true sine this new coalition of many liberal and non-Jew parties which Obama backs.
The last poll showed Bibi still overwhelmingly popular, but Likud just behind this ”new” party.
That just changed.
Netanyahu’s Likud Party has just moved ahead in the latest poll of the Israeli electorate.
Also big big news:
Likud petitioned the Central Elections Committee on Wednesday for an order barring campaigning by the V15 organization (Obama’s campaigners.)
The main issue Likud has with V15 is that it is circumventing campaign-finance restrictions imposed by law.
V15 is making criminal use of anonymous foreign funding in extremely large amounts. The petition also demanded that V15 reveal its funding sources.
So, it looks like Obama basing his actions in Israel on his Chicago-style campaigning backfired on him.
Obama does not poll well in Israel where there are no top politicians who need teleprompters.
Now, Obama’s cronies will be fined, perhaps imprisoned and certainly thrown out of Israel.
How’s that for backlash.
@Nanny:
And the lead Obamaite is Jeremy Bird, who was a campaign field manager for Obama, running a group called V15 (or Victory ’15) to try to get people to vote against Likud and Netanyahu.
You might be wondering what Jeremy Bird has been doing since the 2012 election cycle. Well, he was very busy man. Bird was dispatched to create an organization, Battleground Texas, that was designed to “turn Texas blue.” He worked hard for the Wendy Davis campaign as a campaign advisor, being so ingrained with the Davis campaign that Battleground Texas even had their headquarters at the Davis campaign headquarters. Much of Davis’ meager campaign funds came either from out of state supporters or Battleground Texas.
So it would seem after Bird’s disaster in Texas, he, and the Obama administration, have turned their efforts to Israel. Let’s hope he has as much success there as he did in Texas. Davis’ campaign, which heavily relied on Bird’s tactics, was such a rousing failure she took the Bum Steer Award at Texas Monthly. Davis has Bird to thank for that.
@Greg: Give it up Greg. Your dance is not working. You need to only write out of one side of your mouth and if you have one that works, start thinking if possible.
Boehner didn’t tell White House about Netanyahu visit because he wanted to avoid ‘interference’ from Obama
This, from the guy who has no problem whatsoever attempting to derail the Executive Branch’s diplomatic negotiations with Iran.
Boehner should be censured at the very least. That, of course, will never happen in a Congress controlled by a party concerned about nothing but partisan maneuvering.
One country after another is realizing what a lousy ”leader” the President of the Free World really is.
Since Obama’s selfie he has needed a 3 day vacation in CA with his gay buddies and Choom Gang.
Meanwhile Jordan is taking the lead in the fight against ISIS.
Bahrain has sent its war planes to Jordan so their attacks can be well coordinated to make the fight against ISIS more successful.
Egypt told Obama that THEY would decide how and when to avenge the deaths of their 21 Coptics who were kidnapped and beheaded in Libya by ISIS.
Obama doesn’t care.
He just doesn’t like it that Bibi N will be expressing a POV other than his own toward Iran.
Obama’s limitations on new war powers would necessitate Iran to be the ground forces against ISIS.
Guess who would control all the land from where Iran is today to the edge of Turkey, to the edge of Israel, to the edge of Pakistan if Obama lets Iran take the ground?
What a caliphate!
The only difference between Iran’s caliphate and ISIS’ caliphate is who the lead dog is.
Iran is just as harsh on women, gays, non-tow-the-line versions of Islam and certainly of the Little Satan (Israel) and the Great Satan (the USA.)
@Greg:
Well, we wouldn’t want anyone to get in the way of Obama delivering a nuclear weapon to Iran, would we?
Instead of censuring Boehner, Obama needs to be impeached.
@Greg… it was revealed late this week that the executive branch DID know about the invitation before BiBi accepted it. Once again, the left lies to suit their agenda. Tell us Greg, do you condone dishonesty in all cases or just when it helps satisfy your agenda?
@Scott in Oklahoma, #190:
Revealed by who? That’s certainly not what Boehner himself is saying.
Boehner admits making calculated move not to inform White House of Netanyahu speech.
Here’s the FOX News interview that the Jerusalem Post article linked above is referring to, which took place earlier today. Jump to the 6 minute mark. Boehner acknowledges the White House wasn’t told. He gave specific instructions that the White House not be told.
The entire interview should be viewed. It’s unbelievable how easily Boehner rationalizes an unprecedented and improper political move that could jeopardize U.S. diplomatic efforts to curtail the Iranian nuclear program. Their willingness to cease funding Homeland Security to try to make a political point is also totally off the charts. Chris Wallace acts like he can’t quite believe what he’s hearing.
@Greg:
Greg, are you implying that the Dims are not interested in partisan maneuvering?
It isn’t Democrats who are doing all this totally irresponsible bullshit, is it?
@Greg:
So, are you implyng that the Dims are not interested in partisan maneuvering?
Politicians all practice politics, but Democrats have never totally lost their minds as Boehner seems to have done. This is not an appropriate moment to be threatening to interrupt funding to the Department of Homeland Security unless the President complies with republican immigration policy demands.
If they want to alter administrative enforcement policy and priorities they should get off their butts and pass an immigration reform bill. If they want 11 million people deported because that’s what the law says should happen, rather than prioritizing enforcement to work within the limits of available funds and resources, maybe they should figure out where the hell the money is supposed to come from. They should also ask themselves how the public will likely react if Homeland Security goes unfunded when the threat of terrorism is becoming increasingly worrisome.
@Greg:
Fox News?!? I thought all Fox did was lie? Don’t tell me you’ve been converted to a Fair-and-balanced-er?
Well, yes, actually it is. Democrats have enabled a corrupt President to carry out illegal acts which is detrimental to the health of the nation, so the acts have to be fought in unconventional means. The Democrats are blocking the Congress from taking back control of the purpose for its existence; making law. Obama is not Congress and it is not Obama’s authority to make or change laws.
So, if the Democrats want to stop obstructing (as they did when Reid was in charge) they should either vote for the funding bill or offer amendments for debate.
Oh, really? From 2010 to 2014, Reid blocked voting on numerous (about 360) bills sent from the House, including budgets. Reid even blocked Obama’s “pass this now” so-called “jobs” bill because he didn’t have enough Democrat support. Reid would not allow amendments to be proposed, as McConnell does. You leftists are merely reaping what you have sowed and you don’t like the taste of it.
You still don’t get it, do you, Greg? It doesn’t matter what Congress does or doesn’t do, it is THEIR authority and THEIR’S ALONE to make law. The President directs policy and signs the bills into law and ENFORCES them (something Obama only does selectively). If you want immigration reform, tell your damned anti-American Democrats to secure the border and stop subsidizing illegal immigration. They are only interested in making the problem worse so they can create another voter bloc stuck hopelessly in poverty and dependent upon the federal government for sustenance.
This funding scenario was described BEFORE Obama enacted his memo for amnesty. Knowing that and knowing he had lost control over Congress, if HE cared about funding for DHS, he should not have signed his illegal amnesty memo.
You are going to find, Greg, it is harder and harder to blame others for your failures.
@Greg: Measured, carefully calculated responses and patience often tend to work better.
Libya, Syria, Yemen, & (almost) Egypt display a great track record.
Russian reset, and about that calculated response in Iraq, hows that working?
@Greg: Boehner admits making calculated move not to inform White House of Netanyahu speech.
Times of Israel :: A NYTimes Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel accepted Speaker John A. Boehner’s invitation to address Congress. He accepted after the administration had been informed of the invitation, not before.