http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/10/1363571/-What-digby-said-Don-t-lose-sight-of-the-real-story-in-the-alliance-between-Netanyahu-and-the-GOP?detail=email#
Benjamin Netanyahu seems to think that standing and speaking before the Congress of the United States will make him look big right before an election back home. John Boehner seems to think that behaving like an ass will make him look like less of an ass. Or something. Frankly, it's always hard to fathom what goes on inside John Boehner's orange head. And even Netanyahu himself is playing Boehner for a fool. Which isn't hard to do. But digby gets to the real point about the latest Republican attempt to make President Obama look bad by making themselves look worse. Let's not get caught up in process. This story is about much more than process.
Yes, the way it was done was wrong. The Speaker of the House should not be inviting foreign leaders to speak without clearing it with the White House. This is the kind of thing they should agree upon before it happens.
But the real issue here is that Netanyahu and the Republicans are trying to tank the nuclear negotiations with Iran. Even if they had crossed all their Is and dotted their Ts they'd still be trying to stand in the way of a more peaceful world. That's the problem, not the lack of protocol. And it's a big one.
The White House is trying to negotiate a solution to a critical international security issue. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appears to be trying to do the same. Time will tell. But both sides are talking, and that has been a step in the right direction. The problem is that ideological extremists want to undermine any effort at a peaceful resolution. Ideological extremists in Iran and Israel and in the United States.
i agree Netanyahu wants to annihilate Iran because he fears the threats they made to Israel, Beohner wants war it puts more money in the coffers of those they really serve big business like the military industrial complex you know the ones who the Pentagon told they didn't need more planes or carriers and republicans made it possible for them to be rammed down the Pentagon storage of the other rusting machines of war we don't use. it's all about war, and what benefits those who make it possible. republicans have been sticking their noses in gov't affairs that Pres. is handling and muffing them up that is not the act of those who really care about the troops and the country their 2 cents is worth one half a cent.
