House GOP disembowels leftist Dems skipping Netanyahu speech

The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism--Bret Stephens 

There are [Warning: next word to follow is an oxymoron] progressive Democrats who are threatening to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at next month's joint session of Congress, and House Republicans are going hard against these selective misanthropes. It isn't like they'll be missed or make Bibi Netanyahu feel upset by their absence; it's just that it makes the Democrats look like the Party of Fools.

Netanyahu's address is expected to be delivered by July 24 while the Jewish State continues to fight terrorists in Gaza.

There are a number of Democrats upset with Israel for not allowing Hamas to kill them. They are also upset that when Hamas hid Jewish hostages among the Gaza Arabs and Israel rescued the hostages, a number of Arabs were killed in the process. Not surprisingly, even the BBC was upset that Israel didn't warn the terrorists that they would be coming to get their people and there might be some violence. After all, just because Hamas forgot to warn the young people at the Nova music festival that they were coming to kill them, rape and mutilate them, and take hundreds of them as hostages, is no reason the Jews should get a free pass.

Anyway, several Democrats have said they would boycott Bibi's address in protest of Israel having the audacity to be winning the war they didn't start. For some reason, this didn't sit well with the Grand Old Party.

The No. 3 House GOP leader, Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), labeled Democrats "the anti-Israel party" in a statement to Fox News Digital.

"Their threats to boycott Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Joint Address is another notch on their long list of betrayals of our strongest ally in the Middle East," Emmer said.

Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY), called the would-be boycotters "apologists for terrorism," adding, "Their refusal to stand with our closest ally in the Middle East emboldens murderers and extremists who seek to destroy democracy and freedom worldwide."

Army combat veteran Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), who led the House GOP's effort to sanction the International Criminal Court for threatening to go after Netanyahu, said of the Democrats' boycott, "Too bad they don't seem to care about the six Americans being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza as much as they care about establishing a Palestinian state."

Historically, Palestine was a Jewish state but the term was stolen by the scumwafer Yassar Arafat in order to give legitimacy to the Jordan Arabs who occupied it in the second half of the Twentieth Century.

Perhaps the most powerful Republican Representative was Mike Garcia (R-CA), a retired Navy pilot, told Fox News Digital that the speech would only be "a ’controversial' or 'counterproductive' speech" if Israel’s Democratic critics "make it one."

"There’s nothing controversial about allowing the elected leader of America’s greatest ally – who’s in the middle of a war against… U.S.-designated terrorists – speak to the Congress that’s funding and supporting Israel’s fight for survival," Garcia said.

There were many more responses but you get the picture. The Democrats have always pretended to be the virtuous Party, but they never were.

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