re: #208 Dark_Falcon

Netanyahu’s visit isn’t disrespectful to America as it is disrespectful to Barack Obama. But that is in large part by design, as is Speaker Boehner having him address the Congress. The bases of both the US Republican Party and the Israeli Likud Party loath Obama and so both parties’ leaders need ways to diss the president.

As for me, I approve of the visit. Republican office holders need to slap at the president in this fashion to both satisfy their voters and to make clear to the president that Congress will not be dictated to. The president’s SOTU made clear he wants confrontation with Congress, so its best Congress make clear that confrontation has real costs to him.

Oh, good grief. What are Republicans? Age 5?