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| The Truth About Congressional Pro-Israel Theater |
| 2015-09-02 |
| ...The pro-Israel politics of Republican presidents, like the rest of their conservative ideological commitments, is more talk than reality. You can get a Republican president to say nice things about Israel, small government, the value of life, religious freedom and all that, but you can't get him to do anything about it, like moving the embassy, ending the funding of terrorism or ending the pressure on Israel to comply with assorted PLO demands. That and 5 bucks might get you a cup of coffee on Capitol Hill. When I encourage Jews to go Republican, it's not because it will usher in a glorious pro-Israel era. It's because being associated with a Democratic Party dancing to the fiddle of the left is deeply corrosive. Being around the left is damaging. It's a destructive movement that poisons everything it touches. |
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| Posted by: alex crork 2015-09-02 21:46 |
| #3 what do you propose that they should have done? Obama has the power of the veto, and can prevent any action, as long as his robots go along with him. The present deal at least allows the republicans to blame the democrats for supporting it. Could they have done better? they feared that Obama would go ahead with the deal without congress at all, and the press would protect him. And what have you done to stop it? Well, you are doing your best to put the Republicans down and so insure that the left wing democrats stay in power. Unless you are a democrat troll, you should be ashamed of yourself. |
| Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2015-09-02 21:17 |
| #2 The Congressional GOP actively supported Obama by passing the failure theater bill. This amounted to a de facto ratification with not really plausible deniability. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-09-02 17:50 |
| #1 "The Republican Party tells conservatives what they want to hear while taking its marching orders from an infrastructure of advisers, experts and consultants who urge it to implement the same old bad ideas while lying to the public." The Congressional GOP must like what Obama has done since they have done nothing to stop him. |
| Posted by: Javise Greath3056 2015-09-02 17:05 |