Obama agrees to meet Netanyahu. Netanyahu agrees to use juice with House GOP to fund DHS.
Democrats just rescued House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) with the clock ticking down and averted a Homeland Security shutdown — for a week.
We’re about to see a mountain of writing and hoopla this week about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to the United States and speech before Congress. A guy on Twitter asked me if a comment I made was meant to be ironic. My thought was to tell him that irony simply doesn’t have the muscle mass to handle what’s coming down the pike this week. Only snark and absurdism can manage it. But with all this one of the most significant developments has gone all but unmentioned. We now have dramatic new evidence of Netanyahu’s willingness to distort or simply falsify what his own intelligence agencies are telling him about the state of Iran’s nuclear program when he speaks to the U.S. and the world.
Can Republicans really convince John Roberts they’ll fix Obamacare if one of the GOP senators in charge of devising a fix is publicly calling it another step on the road to “socialism“?
There are now apparently 51 members of Congress not attending Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech tomorrow. Seven Senators and 44 members of the House. The latest is Sen. Al Franken (D). The list is heavily weighted toward African-Americans but also toward Jews. By my count, Franken is the 6th Jewish member of Congress to sit it out.
Right wing radio host would like to see members of the Congressional Black Caucus “hanging from a noose in front of the U.S. Capitol building” for skipping the Netanyahu speech.
5 Points on that Missouri politician’s suicide which came amidst an anti-Semitic whispering campaign.
Anshel Pfeffer has this right. The aim of today’s speech is to keep Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister. Notably, though he still has the best shot at forming the next government, Netanyahu personally and his party have slipped in the polls over the last two weeks. Notably, Netanyahu’s top political advisor, Ron Dermer, who currently serves as Ambassador to the US, was in Jerusalem for the last ten days advising on the speech and Netanyahu’s reelection campaign during one of the tensest period between the two countries in decades.
In an interview yesterday with Reuters, President Obama points out that virtually nothing Benjamin Netanyahu has said about Iran or the nuclear negotiations has turned out to be true …