John Boehner and Prime Minister
Netanyahu’s conspiracy to humiliate President Obama and dominate the
news backfired as the U.S. broadcast networks ignored the speech and
refused to televise it live.
Netanyahu’s speech has contained nothing new that
the American people haven’t heard from neo-cons for decades. Netanyahu
broke out various scare tactics with the purpose of frightening the
American people into opposing President Obama’s negotiations with Iran
on a nuclear deal.
Republicans were hoping that they could divide
Democrats and garner massive mainstream media attention by inviting
Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, but Boehner’s handling of the invitation has proven to be wildly unpopular with the American people. Television networks were also scared off by liberal and progressive Democrats who refused to attend the speech.
Speaker Boehner tried to use a traditionally
bipartisan platform to pull off a partisan political stunt, and for once
the mainstream media didn’t play along. Boehner’s big gambit to assert
his power failed, and Netanyahu delivered a stump speech for the voters
back in Israel.
The Netanyahu speech was supposed to be a game
changer for Republicans that would halt President Obama’s growing
political momentum. Instead, Netanyahu was forced to cave to the
political pressure generated by Boehner’s handling of the invitation by
praising President Obama for being such a staunch supporter of Israel.
To put it mildly, that was not what Speaker Boehner had in mind.
The Netanyahu speech has been a debacle for Republicans. After Democrats had done a great job of exposing the speech as a partisan stunt, the U.S. broadcast networks didn’t give up airtime to carry it live.
In other words, another day means another failure for John Boehner.
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