Reports: Boehner To Meet With Netanyahu In Israel

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will travel to Israel at the end of the month to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who just won re-election, according to reports from CNN and Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Israeli officials told Haaretz that Boehner will lead a delegation of Republican congressmen on a trip to Israel on March 31. Boehner reportedly confirmed the trip when Netanyahu spoke before Congress two weeks ago, before the Prime Minister won re-election.

Haaretz described the trip as a "victory celebration" for Netanyahu.

Boehner's trip to Israel will follow Netanyahu's controversial speech before Congress, during which he warned the Congress against a "bad deal" with Iran. Boehner invited Netanyahu to deliver the speech without first notifying the White House.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/boehner-visit-netanyahu-israel

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[KittyWampus]

1. Are American taxpayers paying for this trip?

[hack89]

17. Taxpayers are flying congressmen all over the world on a nearly daily basis.

its been like that for decades.

[KittyWampus]

19. for grossly partisan political stunts? I guess you're right.

[Paper Roses]

2. Is he trying to undermine the American President? This makes me even angrier at the GOP. n/t

[srican69]

4. how can you be 'Angrier' at GOP? The part of my brain responsible for anger/outrage was so

overworked that it gave up.

Now it's like 'Yeah!whatever'

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Boehner is a loser who will never be President, so he pretends to be with stunts like this

Long after John Boehner and his cohort of shitheads have been forgotten, people will remember barack Obama. And it drives him friggin crazy.

[workinclasszero]

5. Boner is probably going to hand deliver a big bag of

US taxpayer CA$H to his fellow warmonger right wing slimeball Bennie!

[jwirr]

6. I wonder if boner's state has a recall law?

[albino65]

11. I wish!

[canuckledragger]

7. It's a meeting to coordinate efforts

For the republican's upcoming war they want to start with Iran on Bibi's behalf.

I'm being only partly cynical here...what's it going to take to charge him and the other 46 traitors with treason?

We all know damn well it's going to be discussed in some form while they're there.

[geek tragedy]

8. After that, he can fly to New York for a guided tour

of the UN.

[DFW]

9. Bonehead is trying to conduct a parallel foreign policy on his own

This seems like a very desperate attempt to show that the House Republicans are capable of doing SOMETHING other than investigating Benghazi and Hillary's email, plus trying in vain to repeal the ACA.

In other words, Bonehead is looking in vain for a relevance that has so far eluded him as Speaker of the House. So far, all he has succeeded in doing is make himself Weaker in the House.

If there is supposed to be a change in the wind somewhere, I sure don't hear any leaves rustling.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Maybe Bibi will make Boehner vice-president of Israel.

[Faux pas]

12. They can stay there!

I won't miss them.

[albino65]

13. His piece of shittery is beyond the pale!

This son of a bitch is such an ass hat that I am beside myself! I cannot believe that he and his brain-clone Louie Gohmert have not been institutionalized for their idiocy! I'm sorry, but I had to vent and my wife doesn't deserve to hear me scream. (!!!! are screams)

[mountain grammy]

14. Payoff time!

[cosmicone]

15. Obama is at fault here.

If a democrat had done this to a republican president, the white house would have been screaming 24/7 about how the democrats are interfering in foreign policy and how they are being unpatriotic and how they are threatening national security.

All democrats do is issue a strong worded statement -- not enough.

Just like Jimmy Carter before him, Obama is a nice guy who won the presidency against weak opponents due to unusual circumstances. He should havelearned from Jimmy Carter and had some hardball playing aides instead of being gentlemanly all the time.

Repukes are rascals and always play hardball -- that is their reptilian nature. I would like to see Obama announce anews conference and state how Bonehead's trip to Israel is unpatriotic and undermining national security.

Go on the offensive for heaven's sake - this is not cricket.

[former9thward]

16. Speaker Pelosi met with Assad in 2007 over White House protests.

So a Democrat did do this to a republican president and not that long ago.

[rladdi]

18. NON leader Boehner and the Republicans are a greater threat to the USA and people than

ISIL. They are doing more harm to this nation since 2008 and Obama was elected then ever in the history of the USA. Their only mission is to destroy.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Passover and Holy Week (the week before Easter)

Very convenient. Of course I expect they are not in session that week for their hundredth break. How many will stay the whole week? Most I'm sure. The (real) "liberal media" needs to start calculating and publishing the cost of the junket.

[Cali_Democrat]

21. To be fair....

I think this was planned a while ago if I'm not mistaken.

[BlueStater]

22. Can he please just move there and not come back?

Everybody wins. The US gets rid of this piece of shit and Boner can spend the rest of his days in his favorite country.