Reactionaries and 'baggers as online cheeto-lickers, love to point out to whomever they can lure into a pie fight that "We the People: A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy" means that there is some inerrant license (however selectively interpreted) to ignore racist, sexism, exploitation and other anti-democratic behavior. More appalling is when they support larger institutions of false consciousness and their media enterprises. The greatest such spectacular stunt was the
2003 search for WMDs in Iraq.
The problem is that even the RW Washington Times doesn't agree with 'bagger logic; America is an oligarchy, not a democracy or republic. The "Republic with democracy optional" meme, however neo-Platonic, seems to be a matter of faith to the GOP, and yet they decided to provide a spectacle for the leader of the Israeli system of government...based on parliamentary democracy".
Boehner Stunt Backfires As NBC, CBS and ABC Don’t Televise Netanyahu Speech To Congress
“The perverse genius of Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides (and their Republican handmaidens) is that they have managed to turn a moment in which President Obama should have been busy defending his pursuit of a nuclear agreement with a dangerous adversary into a stress test of the U.S.-Israel relationship,” says The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, one of the leading journalists on the Middle East.
But as Iran-Contra demonstrated, certainly the goal of some foreign policy is to simply serve domestic interests as the Israeli elections got a bump regardless:
JERUSALEM, March 4 (Reuters) - Israeli opinion polls on Wednesday showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got a slight boost in popularity after his U.S. speech slamming an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, but he is still running neck and neck with his leading rival in a March 17 election.
A survey published by Channel 10 television indicated Netanyahu's Likud party would gaining two seats to 23 compared with what he had a week ago. That would still leave him in a tie with Isaac Herzog's Zionist Union.
The country's Channel 2 television had Netanyahu's right-wing party up by one seat to 23, just behind Herzog's left-of-center list.
Fortunately, in the US and as
CNN's Don Lemon has said: You — you know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it”
Netanyahu wrapped his speech up and it was time for another ten minutes of applause. Whether Netanyahu achieved his goal of sabotaging a deal with Iran or mistakenly opened up a riff in the U.S./Israeli relations, one thing is certain. The in-chamber response to this speech was by far the longest blow job a Jewish man has ever received.