The motive behind these religious
based discrimination laws proliferating around the country seems to be a belief
that certain religious practices are more powerful than our national government
and its laws. Keep in mind, religious discrimination is practiced by a minority
of the Christian community in America.
The majority of American Christians
do not practice their religion from a fundamentalist perspective and should not
be accused of the hateful practices of a few misguided people.
As this story states about the
Arkansas legislature, considering such a law, "governments should not
substantially burden the free exercise of religion without compelling
justification." The key words are "compelling justification”. Here
are a few "compelling justifications”.
1) Gay individuals pay taxes and
are American citizens like everyone else. 2) All American citizens are entitled
to "equal protection under the law". 3) The "Supremacy
Clause" in our Constitution gives the government the authority to protect
all US Citizens from predatory practices and efforts to discriminate. 4) Odd
ball religious practices do not supersede or nullify US Law. 5) The 10th
Amendment does not grant authority to states to nullify US law.
Each elected official in the state
of Arkansas took an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign
and domestic. Any attempt to nullify Federal Law is sedition and an attempt to
incite insurrection. In other words, Arkansas Legislators, breaking their oath
to defend the laws of this nation are traitors. They are just as dangerous as
any outside force intent on doing harm to US Citizens.
The 14th Amendment, Paragraph III,
provides a remedy for latent modern day Confederate Traitors. Arkansas
Legislators can be removed from office and prohibited from ever holding public
office again. Current and active Sedition laws provide the President with the
power to remove these traitors by force if necessary.
Abraham Lincoln did not have the
tools to stop a Civil War. Modern day Presidents, under the law, have the power
to stop insurrection if necessary. It is increasingly clear that this movement
to inflict a religious dictatorship, upon tax paying US citizens in America
must be stopped. Not acting only emboldens enemies of the state and encourages
further ant-American behavior.
I wonder how much longer our nation
must endure religious meddling within government. Is interference into our
secular government a passing phase? Is
this the beginning of the downfall of our government, as we have known it? Religious
involvement in government insures the eventual downfall of that government.
Our government is not immune from
such a threat. There has never been a successful religious government in the
history of the human race.
Christianity is not compatible with
a secular government, envisioned by the writers of our Constitution. If
Christianity prevails, the Constitution will have to go. If the Constitution
wins, then Christianity will have to stop interfering in the affairs of men. A
stronger “Separation of Church and State” law must be passed. Perhaps an Amendment
to clarify what “Separation of Church and State” is, would help save the Union.
Ted Cruz is just one example of an
effort to bring down our government and impose God's law, whatever that is. Fundamentalists
think our country is dreadful the way it is. Our secular Constitution is immoral
and must be substituted with something biblical. Our founding fathers were
wrong. They are right.
Ted Cruz represents this idea. His
father is a Dominionist and Cruz’s behavior indicates that he is too. Dominionism,
(sometimes used interchangeably with Christian Reconstructionism
and theonomy) is a political and religious philosophy that seeks to make the
United States government a Christian theocracy.However,
would you want to live in a country controlled by the Ted Cruz's of our time?
Think about it!
When it comes to the hammer hitting
the nail, most all of us do not want to live under laws created by a religion
different from our own. Even an unpretentious prayer in school, threatens to
rip a small classroom into nothing more than a bunch of screaming parents.
Eventually they will threaten each other with death, because religion (all
religions) has a way of getting people killed.
It is very important to keep prayer
out of a public classroom. Private religious schools are another matter, as
long as everyone is of the same faith. In public schools, the only way prayer
can work, is if everyone is forced to pray in the same manner or to the same
God. A Dominionist stated goal.
Ultimately, that is what people
like Ted Cruz want. Religious superiority is the oldest form of discrimination
practiced by humankind. When someone tells you that Jesus is Lord and you must
be saved in order to go to Heaven, that person is telling you of their
superiority, if you do not follow their belief.
Failure to comply with their
beliefs, gives them permission to do anything, including your murder. Do not
roll your eyes! That is the history of Fundamentalist religions and nothing has
changed for thousands of years. We see this superior notion practiced every day
in America by men like Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz is willing to force
children to pray like him, even if parents dislike their children’s conversion
to a faith not like theirs. This notion of superiority would extend into every
aspect of people’s lives, if allowed to infiltrate government.
We see the mingling of religion and
government practiced in the Muslim world. It is not very pretty and just
because we are Christians, the blending of religion into our government would
be just as harmful.
Unfortunately, Fundamentalism has
become very strong in America. Millions of people are dissatisfied with our
secular government and want to follow people like Ted Cruz into a theocratic
nightmare. Their discriminatory behavior has no boundaries.
Children are to be beaten. Wives
must be obedient. Women can work, but for less pay. Women can never hold public
office unless they are subservient to men. Females can be forced to have
children they do not want and threatened with death if they have an abortion.
Men suffer no consequences.
Blacks, Latinos and any other minority
should be restricted from voting. Little white children must be protected from
the influence of people not like them. Public schools must be eliminated
allowing only churches to conduct education. Churches without proper standing
will receive limited funds.
Laws allowing discrimination of gay
American citizens, will become commonplace in all the states. Despite
discrimination, gays will still be required to pay taxes. Hunting parties,
tracking down and injuring or even killing gay people, would be encouraged
within church walls.
Bombing people with a different religion
becomes commonplace. The holy rulers of America
will reign terror upon the world. Like the crusades, there is no sin in killing
a non-believer or what the Crusaders called the “Infidels”.
There is no guilt among the
practicing fundamentalists in America for half a million, dead innocent people
in our last two wars. Instead, American churches make heroes out of the
killers. The lack of guilt, for the murder of Muslims yesterday, predicts
behavior in the future if these killers get total control of our government.
This scenario sounds harsh and Christians
in America will cry out with indignation. Their religious persecution complex
will come to the forefront and denials, accusations and name-calling will fly
from the mouths of those who have perverted the religion of Jesus.
However, do not let their words
fool you. Do not go by what they say but by what they do. In America,
Christians no longer believe in the government our founding fathers pioneered.
Almost exclusively, the Fundamentalist movement in America supports States
Rights and dissolving the Union.
Fundamentalists believe women
should be barefoot and pregnant waiting eagerly for their man to come home and
eat the dinner they prepared. Women who become pregnant must be locked in their
bedroom and forced to have children they do not want. If a woman sticks a coat
hanger up her vagina and aborts a child, she is to be executed.
The list goes on forever. Democrats
are not dividing the nation with crazy un-American laws, taking the breath from
normal people. Democratic legislators are not passing nullification laws and
pressing for each state to become its own nation.
Democrats are not attacking women
and their civil liberties. Democrats are not trying to suppress the right of
people to vote. Democrats do not advocate killing hundreds of thousands of
people in Iran for trumped up reasons and then brag about it later.
Democrats have parties at home
watching football games and cheer for their team. Republican Christians have
parties at home watching precision bombing and cheer for the killing of
innocent people. There is a big difference between the Parties.
Democrats are not trying to destroy
our secular nation and replace it with the views of people like Ted Cruz. We
have a long tradition of leaving the worship of God alone. This time, maybe we
should pay more attention.
Each year, fewer and fewer people are calling themselves
Christians. As the children of backward thinking Christians grow up, the kids
get out of the house as fast as they can just to escape their parents pitiful
lives.
Bills allowing legal discrimination are outdated. The people
passing these bills are a bunch of old sneaks stuck in their backward ways. When
they finally die off, there will be some peace in America. The kids, having
rejected their parent’s horrible way of living, will eventually be elected into
positions of power and correct the mistakes of their parents.
Young people today are abandoning the old Christian ways.
Fundamentalist Christian numbers are dwindling. Unfortunately, it can't happen
soon enough. One day, these bad ideas will perish as more Christians that are
authoritarian die off and American values take hold again. In the meantime, we
must all endure these legalized, ant-American procedures.
John David Dougherty You are repeating propaganda spit out
by FOX News. The story you just told came from FOX NEWS explaining what ISIS
wants. Iran is fighting ISIS. Iran is allied with us in the fight against ISIS.
Iranian Generals and ground troops are contributing to
recent victories over ISIS with the help of our air power. Iran is Persian.
ISIS is Arab. Big difference. They don't like each other. Iran is in fact doing
more to defeat ISIS than we are. We want Persian Iran on our side. It would be
very smart for us to be good friends with Iran.
Everything would be better today if we had become good
partners with Saddam. We could have developed his oil fields and guaranteed
cheap oil for us, for all time. ISIS would not exist today. Becoming friends
with Iran would help us not to make the same mistakes we did with Iraq. There
are better ways to do things without killing half a million innocent people.
As far as Santorum is concerned, he proves the need for
absolute enforcement of the Separation of Church and State concept.
This is a video of a racist, making racial comments, I took it at an apartment complex during a 4th of July picnic. He was walking around spitting out his racist comments to anyone that would listen, including children.
In the video I told him I would post this video on You Tube. He said, "I don't care". So I posted the video. Here's the video.
He's from Missouri.
Over time, people commented on the video.
I allow anyone to comment. The following excerpts from commentators is real. I
included links to the individuals You Tube page if you want to visit them.
These comments are only a sampling. I
deleted the worst ones. I banned those people issuing threats of violence then deleted.
There have been about a hundred comments out of 1798 views. There was only one
comment expressing disgust with this man.
All other comments were in agreement with
the racist in the video. I have maintained for many years that racism in
America is very real and alive. I'm a white guy and I have met many
"Crackers" who have expressed extreme racism. Being white, they feel
more comfortable expressing their view than when around people with a different
skin color than they have.
In the old days, racists were out in the
open and stated their racist language to anyone that would listen. They felt
comfortable saying those things because so many people agreed with them. Today,
because of condemnation by many people, racists have learned to be more careful
what they say in public.
Having learned that being a loud-mouthed
racist in public might cost them their job or limit their social involvement
with other people, they have become more "politically correct". Make
no mistake though; racism is still very strong among white people. Especially
the poor picked on white person, suffering from some kind of persecution
complex.
A persecution complex is a common thread
among these racists. Of course, being a racist requires a sense of superiority,
because racism is all about somebody believing they are better than someone not
like them is. Superiority extends into other areas as well. Superiority of
religious beliefs and superiority of men over women is very common in
America.
This sense of superiority is at the root
of a lot of the social stress we have in our nation today. People condemning
other people to hell, if those people don't believe Jesus is Lord, is very
common. Religious superiority is as dangerous as racial superiority if not more
so. More people have died throughout the ages because of religion than have
died because of racial issues.
In America, if you are deemed to have an
improper belief in God and Jesus, millions of Americans will scorn you. They
will hate you. They are going to heaven and you are not. Religious discrimination
and racial prejudice rival one another for pure mayhem wrought on humanity.
This brings us to President Obama. As we
all know, people think of him as being an African American. Strike one against
the man. You can see some of the comments below. Secondly, Obama's religion is
not good enough for the Fundamentalist Christians in this country. Thus, we see
all kinds of attacks on the church he has attended and a desperate attempt to
brand President Obama a Muslim.
That's strike two against the man. He's a
black guy and he's a Muslim. Strike three is that Obama is perceived to be
Liberal. Some of us think that's a real joke because Obama is not a Liberal for
many of us.
Nevertheless, for thirty years, persecuted
people with notions of superiority have successfully demonized the word
liberal. Never mind, if Jesus came back today, he could never win an election
uttering the words he spoke.
Our founding fathers were raving Liberals
but would be rejected today because peoples perception of the word
"Liberal" has gone into a a special dream world only conservatives
understand. Actually, they don't understand their beliefs, they just hate.
Hating is much easier that understanding.
Obama is a Liberal, strike three. Obama is
a black person, he has a false religion and he's a liberal. Nothing will ever
change these persecuted, picked on "Caspers" suffering from illusions
of grandeur. Dilutions of grandeur combined with a persecution complex is the
definition of paranoia.
Paranoia is very difficult to cure if the
practitioner is not aware of their sickness. That's why things will only
continue to spiral downward in America. Buoyed by millions of fellow
religious supremacists all feeling superior to African Americans,
Latinos, women, Jews and Liberals, paranoia in America will only get worse as
the years pass by.
There is no mechanism to cure these people
of their sickness. Below is just a sampling of comments I have received
regarding the video I posted of an old racist from Missouri opening his mouth.
He lives and works at the complex I reside in. I can tell you, after
many conversations with him, he is a religious superiority freak and he would
just as soon kill liberals as look at them. It seems religion, racism and
liberal hating go hand in hand.
Gary snaky u
imbecile, I'm not a republican and I'm not "old" I happen to be a
democrat and always voted democrat.
By voting for this animal, I helped destroy this country
You don't have to be an old man republican to hate this Muslim nigger!!!
There are millions who are young and liberal who can't stand this Muslim nigger!!!!
Hey Snay,you
fuckup.......READ MY LIPS MOTHERFUCKER,OBAMA IS A FILTHY MUSLIM AND A NUMBSKULL
STUPID NIGGER.HE HAS FUCKED AMERICA 500 TIMES WORSE THAN BUSH,CHEYNEY OR ANY
OTHER ADMINISTRATION.IMPEACH THIS IMPOSTER NIGGER.
What is the matter with the
anti-abortion crowd? They are constantly trying to sneak in their agenda on
every single issue. City, county, state and federal legislative bodies can't
pass a bill on "what to do about stray dogs" without some busy bee
pro-life group making the whole bill about abortion in some way.
I'm neither pro-life or pro-choice
but I am all about stopping people from meddling in other people business. With
the revival of Christian Fundamentalism, our nation will probably be a
religious dictatorship one day anyway. In the meantime, I wish all our
self-righteous, know it all Dominion religious thinkers would just shut up for
a little while and let the country have some peace and quiet for a while.
Have you noticed? These believers
in Jesus are tearing our country apart. Almost every contentious issue in
America becomes worse by followers of Jesus meddling in the subject. They just
can't shut up and leave people alone. Nearly 100% of all the hatred directed
towards our government, our President, Democrats, minorities of all persuasion
and any fellow American not like them, is emanating from the fundamentalist
Christian movement in America. In the name of Jesus, their hate has no
boundaries.
An important bill regarding human
trafficking should not be muddied up by attaching yet another attack on a
constitutionally guaranteed right to choose and threaten the passage of this
bill. Democrats have a right to resist passage of this bill, if giving in will
further denigrate a woman's right to choose.
Resisting people with authoritarian
personality syndrome, driven by a need to assault a woman's right to choose, is
a cause Democrats must always take up. Pass a clean bill regarding human
trafficking and get rid of intrusive input from people who hate our country and
want to turn our nation into theocracy.
If I have one complaint about President Obama, it is that he
has been far too lenient in dealing with criminals from Wall Street and with
latent Confederate traitors calling themselves Republicans.
Interference in foreign affairs by members of the United
States Senate at a crucial time in negotiations with Iran, is not only
unprecedented, but it is illegal. President Obama should enforce the law with
fines and imprisonment for each of the Senators signing the letter to Iran.
These Republican Senators are flirting with treason.
There is a law on the books giving president Obama the
authority to deal with these Republican Confederate Traitors. It is called the
LOGAN ACT. It reads:
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who,
without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or
carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any
officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of
any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any
disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of
the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to
apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof,
for redress of any injury, which he may have sustained from such government or
any of its agents or subjects.
1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953
(2004).
This is current law. It was codified in 2004. These
Confederate Traitors calling themselves US Senators should all be dragged
before a criminal court, fined and then imprisoned.
Allowing elected officials to continue breaking the law,
encouraging insurrection, voting to nullify US Law and committing sedition only
emboldens them to perpetrate egregious acts of treason in the future. Abraham
Lincoln did not have the tools to stop Confederates from trying to destroy our
nation. Modern day Presidents do have the tools to stop insurrection.
President Obama would do this nation a great service if he
would take action to save our Union from these Republican traitors all around
our country. There are laws on the books to make latent Confederate traitors
take notice.
There is the Logan Act. We have the sedition Act. We also
have the 14th Amendment, Paragraph III, which spells out very clearly what can
happen to elected officials committing sedition. Republicans are tearing our
nation to pieces and they should be stopped before they go too far with armed
conflict.
The ruling is correct, if the
institution resisting the ACA mandate, didn't take a single penny in common tax
dollars. Religious schools, taking no tax dollars for operations are free to
teach religion in their classrooms. Upon acceptance of common tax dollars, they
lose their freedom to subject children of multi-cultural and religious
backgrounds to a particular belief.
The Catholic Conference accepts
millions of dollars in common tax dollars every year. They do wonderful work
but the level of their services would be far less without tax dollars funding many
of their operations. In addition, the Catholic Conference employs many people
of different faiths because skilled employees come before "Catholic
only" employees for efficient operations.
The Catholic Conference is not just
a private religious organization. The Catholic Conference relies heavily on all
citizens in our country to fund their good work. As such, because of their
acceptance of public money and their willingness to employ people of all
faiths, the Separation of Church and State applies. If the Catholic Church
doesn't like the Separation of Church and State concept, envisioned by our
Founding Fathers, then stop taking common tax dollars to help line the pockets
of church authorities.
Accepting taxpayer money does not
allow the Catholic Church to disregard Federal law to the detriment of its
non-Catholic employees. The ACA is the Law of the land and all citizens are
afforded equal protection under the law.
Here is yet another example of the
divide in our country. One side thinks primitive butchery, modeled after the
Muslim faith, is the way for America to emulate. The other side takes a more
civilized approach and points out the true teachings of Jesus.
You can see this divide, within
these comments. The side that believes in cutting off hands and gouging eyes
are generally people leaning Republican. They are disillusioned by everything
American, including our justice system, our values and the very nature of what
makes this country great. In other words, they are Tea Bagging Confederate
Traitors.
The other side pretty much condemns the
"eye for an eye" approach to justice, recognizing this form of
punishment is rooted in primitive times, practiced by uneducated and ignorant
people. America was founded by people fleeing the ruthless and unjust methods
of justice, practiced by nations like Iran. How ironic, large sections of the
American public now advocates for the very things our ancestors fled from, long
ago.
It is also ironic how these people
with authoritarian personality disorders are very often Republicans claiming
religious superiority over others in our nation. It is a strange phenomenon
that people claiming to be religiously superior support the barbaric behavior
of a religion they claim to hate.
The people commenting on today’s
story is a perfect example of the two courses our nation can take in the 2016
election. One course will take our nation down a path where barbaric people,
believing in their primitive superiority, in combination with their hatred for
all things American, destroys our nation.
The other side, still believing in
the principles our nation was founded on, rejects the primitive instincts of
man and continues the dream that America is still a beacon for the rest of the
world. This dream will not remain if people, who think gouging out eyes is a
good idea, take over our country.
What a strange lineup of potential
candidates from the Republican Party for President of the United States. I know
many Republicans. I can say with certainty, they are nowhere as bizarre as the
Republicans wanting to be President. In the end though, my Republican friends
will vote for their party nominee, no matter how strange that bird is.
The inconsistency of impeccably
normal people calling themselves Republicans, voting for defective people
running for office has always been a contradiction in my mind. Very confusing, to
say the least. The last election is a good example.
Much of the strength of the
Republican Party relies on people with very strong religious beliefs. Many of
those religious beliefs is based on a "Jesus Is Lord" concept.
Along with this notion, is the idea that if an individual is not Saved, they
can't dwell with Jesus somewhere up in the clouds. Don't get me wrong. I'm not
trying to demean this kind of Christian belief. I share some of their beliefs.
Along comes Mitt Romney, a Mormon.
He gets the Republican nomination despite his belief that you don't need to be
Saved and Jesus is not Lord. Normally, for Christians, Mitt is a man destined
for Hell. Normally, Christians would be calling Mitt all kinds of names and
cursing him for not being Christian.
However, "normally" is
not a word one can use when referencing Republicans. Many of my Christian Republican friends, claim I am going to Hell because I don't think Jesus is Lord or that one
needs to be saved (I'm an early Christian). Yet, these very same people
condemning me to hell, will vote for a non-Christian and make him President of
the United States. Go figure.
After years of seeing this
contradictory behavior from my Republican friends, I can only conclude that
these very devout and religious people will not vote for anyone if they
are black, Latino, a woman, gay, Democrat, Liberal or an Atheist.
Christian Republicans hate these
groups more than they love Jesus and that is why we may get an unstable
President elected to office based on how much hate he/she can spew out in order
to please people disillusioned with America.
Just look at the Republican lineup.
Any of these people elected President would be a disaster for our country. What
they all have in common is their hate towards everything and everybody. It’s
almost pathological. Let these Republicans get control of both Houses and the Oval Office is a formula for a very different America. Normal people who love our nation, will not like an America controlled by these people.
The problem is, it is a sneak
attack on our country and no one will acknowledge the threat until it is too
late.
Apparently, there was a juror(s)
who actually believes in the Commandment "thou shalt not kill". How
unusual, for America. Has anyone heard the term, "pray for the
executioner"? If someone condemns someone to death, do they have to
participate in the actual killing or are they guilty of murder anyway?
If someone does not believe in
killing someone and prefers to send them to jail for the rest of their lives,
are they a bad person and deserve to be called names by all the bloodthirsty
killers in our society? Does anyone believe that "vengeance is wrong,
anymore"? How about, "two wrongs don't make it right"? What
would Jesus do, anyway?
There are two things going on here
within the comments to this story. 1. No one really believes in the teachings
of Jesus anymore. 2. Americans are just a bunch of cutthroat killers deserving
of any criticism offered by foreigners.
The Affordable Care Act is in danger. Republican desire to repeal the act has consequences. The most direct consequence, is the death of Americans who will no longer have Health Care.
If the Supreme nullifies the ACA as many as ten million Americans previously covered will lose their coverage. It is estimated that ten thousand Americans will lose their lives, each year, for lack of health care.
This is not a small matter. Those who advocate for American deaths are in a small way, terrorists. Bin Laden could not have hoped to kill Americans as efficiently as the Republican Party is attempting right now.
Considering how the ACA will cut the deficit over the long term, lower medical costs for everyone and stop the abusive behavior of profit seeking Insurance Companies and Medical Corporations, it is hard to understand the position taken by the Republican Party.
Nevertheless, that is the goal of the Tea Bag Republicans and they may well be aided by a Conservative Supreme Court. This entire affair regarding the ACA is yet another example of danger dwelling within our national boundaries.
Conservatives in America are nothing more than latent Confederate Traitors bent on destroying our nation. They don't care how many Americans lose their lives in order to obtain their goal.
This issue really points out the
divide within our country. One side has a sense of community. The other
doesn't. One side advocates for responsibility. The other side doesn't. One
side wants to control rising medical costs. The other side doesn't. One side
wants to eliminate pre-existing conditions from consideration of coverage. One
side doesn't care about that.
If the ACA is neutralized about 13
million Americans will lose health care coverage because of new higher costs.
It is estimated around 10,000 Americans will die from lack of health care, each
year. More Americans will die in one year than ten years of unnecessary wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq. One side cares about this. The other side doesn't.
Thirteen million people took
responsibility and decided if they can get health care insurance, they would
pay for it. That's why it's called "THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT". The
only people getting totally free health care are children, the elderly,
handicapped and Veterans in dire need.
One side believes as a society, our
nation should take care of the least among us. The other side, would just as
soon let the helpless among us die. One side cares about people other than
themselves. The other side is very absorbed in their own self-interests and
believe if they have what they need, the heck with everyone else.
If the Supreme Court neutralizes
the ACA, the most selfish, self-centered people among us will cheer, brag and
boast proclaiming a victory for freedom. Freedom to continue being a “mooch”. Freedom
to care about no one but himself or herself. Freedom to step over the bodies of
their fellow Americans.
The selfish, self-centered among us
can redeem themselves if only they would present a viable plan to address the
medical crises confronting all Americans. They have had years to come up with a
plan that will address the problem. However, all they have been able to do is
complain and make false claims. If they win, it will be another nail in the
coffin of what used to be America.used to be America.
Can you imagine the reaction of
Republicans if the stated policy of the elected government of our nation is
confronted with back door sabotage by the opposition party in our Congress,
with the aid of a foreigner?
Adding insult to injury, a
Democratic leader of the House of Representatives invited this foreign
dignitary to address the Congress without the permission of the President in
the middle of those negotiations. In other words, attempted sabotage.
If the situation were reversed
today or in the future, Republicans would be shouting at the top of their
lungs. The time to oppose a treaty negotiated by the elected President of the
United States is during the ratification process in the Senate. The House of
Representatives has nothing to do with the process.
Benjamin Netanyahu has no business
interfering with the negotiation of foreign policy by our elected President.
This isn't a Republican or Democrat issue. It is an issue of bad manners,
sabotage and backstabbing. If the Republican Party had any class, (they don't)
they would boycott Netanyahu's speech and censor the Speaker of the House for
pulling off such a stupid grandstanding act. Though not illegal, some would say
the Speaker committed treason.
Don't hold your breath though. The
Republicans will clap and cheer for Netanyahu and conduct news conferences
afterwards undermining negotiations designed to prevent another war. Netanyahu
and his war mongering Republican allies will get their day in the spotlight but
hopefully, a wise and intelligent Barack Obama and the Democrats will prevail.