http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/29/1360932/-Forbes-Destroys-John-Boehner-in-Scathing-Smackdown?detail=email
IS THAT CONTEMPT ON THE SPEAKERS FACE?
I get that the Speaker doesn’t like the President or his policies. I get that many readers of this piece will have snarky responses about how this President already embarrasses himself and our nation, etc., etc., etc.
But what neither the Speaker, nor those who cannot manage to think beyond their distaste for this president, understand is the truly unprecedented step Boehner has taken by joining with the leader of a foreign nation against his own president.
Presidents come and go. However, respect for the office of the presidency, particularly on the part of the man who is second in the line of succession to the presidency, should not.
Through his actions, Boehner may have scored some points for his party and for his preferred policy option vis-à-vis the Iranian nuclear negotiations. But in the process, the Speaker of the American House of Representatives has succeeded in embarrassing the Office of the President.
Considering that Speaker Boehner has failed to accomplish anything of note during his Speakership, I can only wonder how it must feel to have his legacy be his effort to disgrace the American President in the effort to bolster the political chances of a foreign leader.
He concludes: Seeking to damage any American President by helping a foreign leader embarrass our own leader can never be considered something that is best for the nation. And that is simply the truth no matter what your political persuasion or your feelings about the current occupant of the Oval Office.
i too agree i think that every time the republicans have gone overseas and opened their mouths they are negatively talking about our Pres. they say he apologizes for America and embarrasses the country that is what Clinton referred to "it takes a lot of brass to accuse someone of what you do". Romney goes to Britain and berates the Olympics program, then to Israel and denies Pres.'s conviction to being on their side. McCain no different they have done more to hurt our foreign policy than anyone else because their intent was malicious and un American and in my mind treasonous.
