Anyone who thinks they’ve detected just a little bit of tension between the administration and House Speaker John Boehner over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress will quickly note that Boehner’s tweet includes the administration’s banned phrase, “radical Islam.” Or perhaps Twitter’s 140-character limit kept Boehner from writing that Netanyahu would address “violent extremism based on a warped view of Islam.”
Boehner’s linked Facebook statement is a brief one:
The House of Representatives is part of an equal branch of the government. We had a right to invite The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו to address the Congress about the serious threat that Iran and radical Islam both pose to the world.
Look forward to having him on March 3rd.
Many on the Left can’t see Boehner’s invitation as anything but a shot at President Obama, and Boehner’s tweet only served to kick that hornets’ nest again.
@SpeakerBoehner @IsraeliPM @Netanyahu Where is the ethics committee? This is way beyond the pale. @TheDemocrats
— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) January 27, 2015
@BexaRaven @SpeakerBoehner @IsraeliPM @netanyahu John Boehner is doubling down. Taunting really.
— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) January 27, 2015
#traitor RT @SpeakerBoehner: Looking forward to hearing from @IsraeliPM @Netanyahu on March 3rd about the serious threat radical Islam poses
— Carla Bond ? (@carlabond) January 27, 2015
@SpeakerBoehner @3ChicsPolitico @IsraeliPM @netanyahu Most Americans think you committed treason. .you are the worst Speaker in history.
— ObamaCrat (@typhanieluv) January 27, 2015
Most Americans? Really?
@classics_3000 @typhanieluv @SpeakerBoehner @netanyahu Inviting another head of state to debate our foreign policy w/o WH is treasonous.
— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) January 28, 2015
@3ChicsPolitico @typhanieluv @SpeakerBoehner @netanyahu A reporter should ask Boehner if he's ever used the term "radical" Christianity.NOPE
— classics_3000 (@classics_3000) January 28, 2015
Great GOP Moments: "Speaker John Boehner May Be Guilty of Treason" http://t.co/HAqIGLxIjU pic.twitter.com/JxLSSZmJUL
— ?????? ???? (@TheBaxterBean) January 25, 2015
Is John Boehner a Traitor? http://t.co/tDEoRtCsCT via @sharethis #traitor!!!!!!! @SpeakerBohenr – you suck
— Marcy McGowan (@marcylauren) January 27, 2015
https://twitter.com/VlanTrunk/status/560214082024775681
Is Boehner a traitor and a white supremacist?
White Privilege runs so deep @SpeakerBoehner is risking charges of sedition for setting foreign policy with Israel. http://t.co/XhjbXcuUCr
— Kajieme Powell’s Life Mattered (@drumbeats4peace) January 25, 2015
Double standards tell us all we need to know. Can you imagine a black Senator inviting Israel PM to USA when a white was President? #Chaos
— Kajieme Powell’s Life Mattered (@drumbeats4peace) January 25, 2015
Of course not. That would be like trying to imagine the Congressional Black Caucus flying to Cuba to meet personally with Raul and Fidel Castro.
You have to know Obama is seething over Boehner's white supremacy but notice how silent the complicit media is – treason supporters.
— Kajieme Powell’s Life Mattered (@drumbeats4peace) January 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/colavs19/status/560223066450436096
Netanyahu’s address, or this meltdown over “treason”?
@colavs19 @SpeakerBoehner @IsraeliPM @netanyahu You GOT it Televised.Would be GREAT.
— MAL (@ff7429b1dbb84b6) January 28, 2015
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