White House: President Obama will not meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu during his visit to Washington to try to torpedo Obama’s Iran policy.
Even now, Hillary Clinton handily beats all the possible GOP rivals.
This introductory clause to this AP piece is enough to make it perhaps the best article ever … “Outlining his possible rationale for a third presidential bid, Mitt Romney said Wednesday …”
As you can see from our feature article, today came news – coming just hours after the President’s State of the Union address – that John Boehner and Congressional Republicans have been negotiating a massive in-kind political donation to the reelection campaign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s a gambit so bold and ingenious in its flouting of diplomatic protocol, interstate relations and political norms that it almost makes you think President Obama shouldn’t have accepted a former Republican political operative tied to the Romney campaign (Ron Dermer) as Israel’s current Ambassador to the United States. But with all that, let’s dig into the transaction itself.
Jindal: If we don’t act soon the “police no go zones” in Muslim neighborhoods which don’t actually exist in France will come from France to the USA.
In huge break for the embattled Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu has landed a major in-kind campaign contribution from John Boehner and the RNC, a speech to Congress, which is also an unprecedented departure from protocol in which the US President is at least informed of a foreign leader’s visit. It’s a big break in the lead up to Israel’s March elections. Also notable, during his visit, Netanyahu will help House Republicans try to scuttle the President Obama’s negotiations with Iran over the Iranian nuclear program.
Rick Santorum says he now finds it “difficult to listen to the Pope.”
TPM Reader DW checks in (just barely) from the Islamic State of Paris …
I was particularly amused – or maybe amazed? – by the claim of no-go zones in Paris when I saw the map of where they supposedly were. I stayed in one of those zones – in a perfectly nice apartment rented through airbnb this past October! It was a quite safe area, with a few obvious Muslims seen on the street, also a few ultra-orthodox Jews and a wide variety of ordinary French people. Certainly brought home how much of what one sees on Fox is just blatantly made-up! The only safety threat I experienced was the odd speeding motor scooter.
Are you a luddite? Don’t feel bad. It’s human nature.