"How contrived of you to just stop by."
Huh . . . here is John Boehner standing in Israel yesterday with Bibi Netanyahu. Boehner was
just sorta there - not much reason was given for the trip and he left without making any news. Huh . . . yesterday . . . yesterday . . . Oh right! Yesterday was the long stated deadline for the U.S. and Iran to announce their nuclear deal. Boehner went to Israel to stand next to Bibi - on foreign soil with a foreign leader - to jointly denounce Obama's treacherous nuclear deal with Iran (whatever the terms turned out to be). Only, the talks with Iran have been straggling over a few days and so . . . Boehner went home.
Excerpts from the dryly funny NYT reporting:
JERUSALEM — If the speaker of the House visits Israel, and does not say anything substantive, does it have any effect on the troubled relations between Washington and Jerusalem? . . .
. . . But after the original deadline for the Iran talks came and went without an announcement from negotiators in Lausanne, Switzerland, Mr. Boehner came and went without making news. The prime minister and the speaker were originally scheduled to make statements for the cameras at noon (print reporters were not allowed to attend). Instead, Mr. Netanyahu appeared alone. . . .
Returning to the podium a bit later with Mr. Boehner by his side, Mr. Netanyahu . . . thanked the speaker and his colleagues “from both sides of the aisle for the warm welcome” at last month’s speech before Congress, and spoke of “the enduring bond that unites our two nations. Mr. Boehner, for his part, said hardly anything at all —
Then Mr. Netanyahu said he would like to serve the group lunch. Mr. Boehner said he was hungry, and they left.
Wow. Could you imagine if Nancy Pelosi and some Democrats flew to Paris to hold a live press conference with then French President Jacques Chirac to jointly condemn Bush while he was seeking U.N. authorization to invade Iraq?
The confidence Boehner shows that there would be no backlash is what you get one one political party begins to consider itself a tribe or cult and would never even consider questioning or criticizing their leaders.