Leahy Will Not Attend Netanyahu Address To Congress...Says It's 'A Tawdry And High-Handed Stunt'
Sanders and Leahy have guts.
Where are the rest of the Dems in Congress?
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said in a statement Tuesday he would skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress next month.
Leahy called the speech by Netanyahu -- whom House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) invited to speak without consulting with the White House -- a "tawdry and high-handed stunt":
The unfortunate way that House leaders have unilaterally arranged this, and then heavily politicized it, has demolished the potential constructive value of this Joint Meeting. They have orchestrated a tawdry and high-handed stunt that has embarrassed not only Israel but the Congress itself. It has long been an unwritten rule and practice through the decades that when it comes to American foreign policy, we speak and act thoughtfully, with one voice when we can, with the national interests of the United States as our uppermost consideration, and with caution about the unintended consequences of unilateral actions like this. They have diminished that valuable precedent.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/10/patrick-leahy-netanyahu-a_n_6652558.html
