Boehner's invite to Netanyahu is unconstitutional

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House Speaker John Boehner’s annoyance with President Barack Obama is turning into a grudge match against the Constitution.

Boehner’s decision to invite a foreign head of government to address Congress without first consulting the sitting president has no precedent in American history. And for a simple reason. It’s unconstitutional.

Boehner (R-Ohio) fully admits that his failure to communicate with the White House was not an oversight. Like a schoolboy passing notes when the teacher turns to the blackboard, he sneaked behind Obama’s back to set the date for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech with his country’s ambassador to the United States. Boehner asked the foreign dignitary not to tell the U.S. president.

“I wanted to make sure,” Boehner later explained on Fox News, “there was no interference.” Netanyahu is now scheduled to address a joint session of Congress on March 3.

This is unheard of in U.S. history. American Congresses have sometimes rejected a president’s foreign policy, of course. That is within their rights.

Though the president has the power to negotiate agreements with foreign countries, the Senate can reject or approve them. President Woodrow Wilson, for example, journeyed to Paris in 1919 to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles after World War One. Wilson was instrumental in writing the treaty, particularly those sections that created a new institution, the League of Nations, to provide collective security.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/03/01/netanyahu-invite-is-a-symptom-of-boehners-grudge-match-against-the-u-s-constitution/


 
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Can we sue him now?


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At least Boehner does a good job at living up to his name.


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Can we sue him now?
No, you have to try 54 times.


 
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This really is just nonsense. It's definitely not appropriate for a member of Congress to go around the Executive branch when dealing with foreign officials, but it's not a violation of the Constitution, or even the Logan Act. Members of Congress have met with foreign dignitaries many times in the past, including John Kerry going behind Reagan's back to meet with Daniel Ortega. A speech before Congress is little more than political maneuvering in response to the president's hesitant policies towards Israel.


 
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I'm waiting for somebody to show me where this is prohibited by the Constitution. . .

Because that blog sure as shit doesn't.


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Compared to Obama's unconstitutional actions, this is pretty low on the list for things to be up in arms about.


 
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Boehner should be waterboarded repeatedly


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Compared to Obama's unconstitutional actions, this is pretty low on the list for things to be up in arms about.
If Obama's actions are so visibly unconstitutional to the layman, how is he still president?


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Compared to Obama's unconstitutional actions, this is pretty low on the list for things to be up in arms about.
If Obama's actions are so visibly unconstitutional to the layman, how is he still president?
Because impeachment requires a legislature which isn't also fucking shitty.


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Compared to Obama's unconstitutional actions, this is pretty low on the list for things to be up in arms about.
If Obama's actions are so visibly unconstitutional to the layman, how is he still president?
Because impeachment requires a legislature which isn't also fucking shitty.
While true, even a shitty legislature can see compelling evidence that the president's acts are unconstitutional. There's nothing to lose from the impeachment process, so they should have done it long ago at this point.


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Compared to Obama's unconstitutional actions, this is pretty low on the list for things to be up in arms about.
If Obama's actions are so visibly unconstitutional to the layman, how is he still president?
Because impeachment requires a legislature which isn't also fucking shitty.
While true, even a shitty legislature can see compelling evidence that the president's acts are unconstitutional. There's nothing to lose from the impeachment process, so they should have done it long ago at this point.
Obama's impeachment = President Biden

No Republican wants that.


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Compared to Obama's unconstitutional actions, this is pretty low on the list for things to be up in arms about.
If Obama's actions are so visibly unconstitutional to the layman, how is he still president?
Because impeachment requires a legislature which isn't also fucking shitty.
While true, even a shitty legislature can see compelling evidence that the president's acts are unconstitutional. There's nothing to lose from the impeachment process, so they should have done it long ago at this point.
Obama's impeachment = President Biden

No Republican wants that.
LOL

I keep forgetting about that.


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129,706 signatures on the petition as of this post, now the White House is obligated to respond

Popcorn time  8)


The US gov't really should be trying to win over the Iranians.

It can only be good for the US if the Shia nations and Sunni nations are competing for support. Play them against each other to get the best results for America.
Actually, that'd be a terrible strategy. If the US tried to reach out to the Iranians/Syrian Government, then all of the Sunni states in the Middle East would pretty much lash out against the US, and the US ties with the Sunni states are fucked.

And how well can the Iranians be trusted, really? They are a very tricky and crafty sort of people. The Sunni states may be for the most part brutal dictatorships, but they are at least ones whose plans we know. We know nothing about what Iran wants in the long-term, so if the US tried to make allies with them, we wouldn't know if the Iranians wouldn't just screw over the US.


 
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The US gov't really should be trying to win over the Iranians.

It can only be good for the US if the Shia nations and Sunni nations are competing for support. Play them against each other to get the best results for America.
I'm sorry, when did you start to believe that fundamentalist Muslims are rational actors?

Iran is a rogue state.


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The US gov't really should be trying to win over the Iranians.

It can only be good for the US if the Shia nations and Sunni nations are competing for support. Play them against each other to get the best results for America.
I'm sorry, when did you start to believe that fundamentalist Muslims are rational actors?

Iran is a rogue state.
Iran is no less rational than the Saudis, and the US government is always happy to keep it's mouth shut whenever their human rights violatians cause international outcry.

I'm with you on not trusting crazy theocrats, but there's only like two countries in the region NOT run by crazy theocrats, one of which is a monarchy.
One of which the US is already allied with, so why fuck that alliance over just to try appeasing a total wild card?