Speaker
of the House John Boehner and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s conspiracy to
humiliate President Obama and dominate the news backfired as the U.S.
broadcast networks ignored the speech and refused to televise it live.
Netanyahu’s
speech has contained nothing new that the American people haven’t heard
from neo-cons for decades. Netanyahu broke out various scare tactics
with the purpose of frightening the American people into opposing
President Obama’s negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal.
Republicans
were hoping that they could divide Democrats and garner massive
mainstream media attention by inviting Netanyahu to address a joint
session of Congress, but Boehner’s handling of the invitation has proven to be wildly unpopular with the American people. Television networks were also scared off by liberal and progressive Democrats who refused to attend the speech.
Speaker
Boehner tried to use a traditionally bipartisan platform to pull off a
partisan political stunt, and for once the mainstream media didn’t play
along. Boehner’s big gambit to assert his power failed, and Netanyahu
delivered a stump speech for the voters back in Israel.
The
Netanyahu speech was supposed to be a game changer for Republicans that
would halt President Obama’s growing political momentum. Instead,
Netanyahu was forced to cave to the political pressure generated by
Boehner’s handling of the invitation by praising President Obama for
being such a staunch supporter of Israel.
To put it mildly, that was not what Speaker Boehner had in mind.
The Netanyahu speech has been a debacle for Republicans. After Democrats had done a great job of exposing the speech as a partisan stunt, the U.S. broadcast networks didn’t give up airtime to carry it live.
In other words, another day means another failure for John Boehner.
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