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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoehner Makes Republicans 'TOOLS & DUPES' Of Netanyahu's Election Campaign
One of the defining precepts of the American Republic from its earliest days to today has been that the president of the United States represents the country in its dealings with the world. It is a view which the Supreme Court unambiguously endorsed in 1936 in United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp:
"In this vast external realm, with its important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate; but he alone negotiates. Into the field of negotiation the Senate cannot intrude, and Congress itself is powerless to invade it. As Marshall said in his great argument of March 7, 1800, in the House of Representatives, 'The President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations.'"
This consensus, respected by both parties for much of American history, is why John Boehner's sly decision to offer Benjamin Netanyahu a congressional platform to attack President Obama's negotiations with Iran may represent a watershed moment both for the Republican Party and American support for Israel. It's unclear whether the invitation says more about Republicans' confusion about who precisely they've been sent to Washington to represent, or more about the weakening influence of the conservative pro-Israel group AIPAC as pro-peace, pro-Israel groups like J Street and Jewish Voice for Peace have come on the scene. What seems clear is that when even Chris Wallace of Fox News is " target="_blank">calling the Netanyahu-Boehner manoeuvre behind President Obama's back "wicked," then something has gone very wrong with the Republican sense of the national interest.
Netanyahu's speech may be evidence of hubris run amok on his part, but it is also a vivid illustration of the pervasive and destructive rise of partisanship in American politics over the last few decades. Even as the centre ground vanished on contentious domestic issues, there was at least the idea that the country should speak with one voice on foreign policy. Boehner's invitation to Netanyahu has taken a sledgehammer to that consensus.
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Boehner Makes Republicans 'TOOLS & DUPES' Of Netanyahu's Election Campaign (Original Post)
Segami
Mar 2015
OP
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. The real truth as to what has taken place
in D.C. this AM. Only thing we have not heard of yet is Bibi meeting with Adelson,Wynn,Katz,Romney,or the Bush Crime Family. Watching the Twitter hear in Vegas to see if the Bibi comes to town to kiss the local's rings.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)2. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)3. "Tools and Dupes" is a perfect description of Repukes
on every issue, not just this one.