Boner is a lackey. Or a whore. You decide

He is a drunken "whore, lackey" You decide. I decided he is a drunken ass, useless and a fine example of the leadership of HIS party.

of government and for the most part, their internal workings are decided within that branch. I'm sure Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton would have liked to have the power to have a veto on who would visit Congress, speak to Congress, testify before Congressional Committees and even control who could be called to testify in Senate impeachment Trials.

I believe every member of Congress prosecuted for corruption would have enjoyed the power to control who the FBI could and could not interview.

When you have a Congressional leader who gives the White House the same veto by proxy, it is that Congressional leader who takes on the role of whore - not the members who keep Congress independent from the Executive Branch. As Kevin Spacey said to Jason Bateman in Horrible Bosses, "...I OWN YOU. You're my BITCH! So don't walk around here thinking you have free will because you DON'T."

and undermine PBO and ME foreign policy

just like ALL members of his belief system

Since he didn't even bother to inform WH or Senate, much less minority leadership, hos 'right' is forfeit.

This purely partisan ploy us an attempt to influence foreign policy. That also negates his 'right.'

And how does he expect PBO to 'interfere'? Oh, wait. Bibi could b put on a watch list due to his war crimes...

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the New Testament has it right in predicting the Disastrous future that awaits Israel .

since it is not the book of God... and the Old Testament is not the book of God either.. all written by man...

but those that believe in Christ yet do not believe that their Savior meant what He said when said that Sodom Gomorrah fared far better fate than Israel will for having ears but refused to hear the Word.

Even I'm having hard time believing the words that was written on the Bible.

Is the Bible supposed to be a permanent document of what we should live our lives like?

I would think the Bible would be an everchanging document that would fit to modern world.

I don't even understand why the rabbis keep studying the past and speak of us about the past. We need to be proactive. We aren't. We are just learning the same old shit over and over.

That's why I quit religion. I'm only going to the synagogue because I want to teach my son what's the proper Jewish way of life. He's 6, and super-brilliant.

If it's the latter, anything to him is fair game.

And it appears he's going with the same theme now that they have control.
It's all he knows.

can try to get someone in the WH to rubberstamp the Koch brothers' wishlist.

and less DLC in the Obama years.

Instead of burying the GOP, they have made it likely they'll end up back in the driver's seat and drive us off a cliff into not just more wars in the Middle East but a World War with Russia and possibly China.

the GOP is more like a quadrapelegic Charles Manson, who can spit venom but can't even dribble the ball.

Boner says this crap as he is interfering w/the President and Sec. Kerry

Something he spent two hours speaking with dermer about earlier the day that the invitation was publicly announced.

Obama and kerry have used their own good connections in the world to help israel - even after netanyahu smeared and stabbed them in the back when he wanted the Gaza war to continue and they worked for a ceasefire.

Netanyahu is incredibly lucky that both Obama and kerry have the strength of character to not punish israel for the constant rudeness of its leader.

And now Boner and Bibi want to scuttle that work for the lowest of reasons.

I have argued that Obama and kerry have greatly changed our foreign policy. There were some changes in the first term as well.

the isis effort is based on mobilizing the government's in the region to not only fight, but to become more inclusive and to publicly reject extremism. this is as different from the bush policies as simply leaving the the region would ne.
The re engagement with Iran is similar and they are working with 5 other major powers. It is amazing chutzpah that Boehner is arguing that Netanyahu knows better than all the people who have actually worked on this. they should remember that he predicted in September 2012 that Iran could make a bomb within 6 months.

The interim agreement actually moved back the time table and then froze it. yet netanyahu blasted it. it is clear that any permanent agreement is likely to include keeping levels where the break out time is longer and monitoring. This is better than it was when netanyahu spoke at the un.

the real question is what does netanyahu really want? To me, permanent sanctions are not an honest position because the world would not and should not keep thEm. The problem is that leaves military options only and netanyahu prefers the US do the attack.

Going back to the congress, the Republicans have been furious that Obama has rejected the neoconservative pathof bush. They are still angry that we did not bomb Syria. They misstate this as Obama backing down because they never agreed that the goal was just to reduce the chance of more chemical weapons. The CT agreement was a better solution to obama's goal but not to their goal of regime change. (Israel was a prime beneficiary but I doubt they thanked us.)

If you remember that it was not just republicans the bought the neo con ideas. It is not surprising that Obama has had to fight.

so you can bet he will be there IMO

It is very clear that Netanyahu is running like bush 2004 on maximum fear. His speech will be all about Iran and will play to both the fears of Israelis and the neoconservative pro war sentiments in the congress.

This is a golden opportunity for him. I hope Obama and kerry and others on the team can clearly get people to see that Netanyahu views any agreement with any terms bad because he says they Will cheat. Not to mention he does not want Iran to become less a pariah.

He strongly pushed the Iraq war as well. What he wants is really not what the US wants. There are fundamental differences in policy. Obama and kerry really do believe in diplomacy and he does not.

Why did you and 'about 60' republicans visit Israel only a month ago, Boehner?

That should be the first question Boehner has to answer in the open press, right after.

Imagine the GOP windstorm and the accompanying MSM hurricane if a Democratic speaker ever used that term after pulling a stunt like this.

Seems he's "self-elected" himself President of the United States?... ain't he cute when he's being almighty powerful for "the Amurikan People"????

is that true?

ETA - I see it is already argued here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026203045