Good ol' BeBe- woking behind the President's back in our own house.   Other than that- no comment.

Republicans hope the tensions between Mr. Obama and Israel ... will help propel future political victories for their party.”

... and more trouble, expense, and headache for America.

How unpatriotic! But typical Republican "I, me, mine" self-centered attitude;

Not "What is best for our nation?" but, "What will put another dollar in MY pocket and is best for us tea-drinkers?"

disgusting!

Not much of a surprise that Netanyahu would engage the GOP in contrast to the position he finds himself in with the administration. If there is news here it is who has the most to gain from that engagement, Netanyahu or the GOP.

Like the moonbat LA mayor knows anything about job creation! California is sinking into the Pacific, thanks to liberal policies...

Maybe we should start calling the GOP what they really are...

..."APPEASERS!!!"

Let's be clear. The GOP wants to show support of Israel because they are courting the votes of evangelical Christians that think the second coming is going to happen soon, who are basing their ideas on the prophesies in the Book of Revelation, who think Armageddon will happen there. I don't think the future that the GOP supporters imagine and are working toward for Israel is anything that Jewish people would want.

"Strained relationship with the administration"......

Really?

Go back over the past twenty-five years and find a time when Netanyahu didn't have a strained relationship with an american administation. He is a religious zealot and a war monger who has consistently undermined any attempt by Israel to peacefully coexist with their neighbors in the middle east.

Of course Netanyahu has a strained relationship with the administration! The administration is trying to end ten years of warfare in the middle east - ten years of war that never needed to be fought, and ten years of flag-draped coffins returning to our country, and ten years of hundreds of billions of dollars going down a rat hole in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Netanyahu and his ultra-conservative associates depend on war, or the threat of war to keep them in office. When there's been relative peace between Israel and its neighbors, Netanyahu and his ultra-conservatism has been totally out of favor - even in Israel!

The House GOP and the Netanyahu = equal two sinking ships with crazed captains meeting in a fog. If the American press spent halfthe time they do covering Palin and cover the news in Israel, Americans would learn that Netanyahu has far from majority support in Israel, and his country's middle class has woken up to take to the streets.

Republicans trying to out maneuver the president. Obama has experience and leadership over this gaggle of rabble rousers. President Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, was president of the The Harvard Law Review, graduated with honors, with specialization in international relations! Sixty-one percent(61%) want the Congress to do their job and create jobs in America. This current Congress has failed grossly as they have been taken over by the TEA party of "No Compromise"! This minority of brain-dead want total control while protecting the richest from tax increases! I agree the government should get out of our lives. Government should not mandate Sonograms for women! Government should not mandate HPV vaccines!

Do the Republi-baggers in Congress really think Netanyahu gives a rat's a$$ about the United States, and what's going on in our country?

All he cares about is US military aid payments to Israel and keeping some sort of war going in the middle east to justify the huge tab the US is payaing to keep Israel armed to the teeth.

How about, in their cost-cutting zeal, if Congress cancelled all of the military subsidies going to Israel and everywhere else in the middle east? Do you think Boehner and McConnell would still be on Netanyahu's list of buddies anymore?

Fat frigging chance!

I'm still wondering why we are giving so much money and weapons to Israel. Is it because they are such a "strategic" resource in the Mideast? Really?

On the other hand, I know why the nations of the Mideast hate us so, namely Palestinians. How would the US feel if Germany had won WW2 and had given California and Texas back to Mexico? And Germany's reason? Because Mexico had owned those states previously. That's it. It's the same reason the Jews now have Israel back...Because of the US's magic crayon capable of redrawing maps and redistributing the lands of foreign countries.

If CA and TX were given back to Mexico I'm quite sure the tea partyers would lead the charge to have their sons and daughters blow themselves up in cafes and coffee shops across those two states.

Let's cut the billions in funding being given to Isael. They're big boys. They can figure it out on their own.

There would seem to be no disagreement that the financial collapse and the resulting faltering economy were caused by the greed, dishonesty, selfishness and exploitation indulged in by the few. One can go further and observe that these cycles have been experienced over many years with reoccurring consistency demonstrated in the savings-and loans, banks, dot.coms, corporate corruption, mortgage, investment and financial industries, always being the same, with run-away and aggressive exploitation by the few resulting in substantial losses accruing to the majority. Much like the illegal “pyramid schemes” but here without government ever seeing and outlawing the abusive behavior. Why?

It would be naive not to see that government, actually politics, has become literally controlled by its own excessive financial needs and totally dependent on the capital provided by those sources who actually directly benefit from the exploitation mentioned and also from other government favoritism, which again greatly costs the majority. There really are many “strings” that are tied to the substantial support given the politicians and nowhere is there any conscience about it. We hear rationalizations to justify all of it in wanting “open markets”, “deregulation”, lax-enforcement and even the “trickle down” theory, with claims that they stimulate the economy but what we have seen is that what they stimulate, as human nature dictates, is that run-away greed just takes over and super-egos really have no self-imposed limits.

Solid evidence is seen in Bush-Cheney having totally concentrated on Special Interests and the powerful, influential and extremely wealthy few while giving the majority only apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge to rationalize, con and manipulate. The Republican Party completely backed all of that and have, along with their protege Tea Party, continued with that same mentality effectively offering nothing constructive and stubbornly faulting and blocking all efforts to address the resulting problems. There have been those organized, financially supported and closely directed third party efforts to control public opinion and manipulate the voters, like the considerable efforts to sway the Christian block, the Swift-boat propaganda and the Tea Party movement, all aimed to excite and move the public in the same direction. There are those greatly financed groups, like Norquist’s “anti-tax” pledge, Cheney’s, Rove’s and others, who use the vast sums provided them to coerce and intimidate strict unity behind the dedicated pursuit of “big money’s” interests, as they even brag they can “make or break” any politician. We see the financially supported, often bazaar, antics of Palin, Limbaugh, Beck and others, and the arrogant, stubborn and even obnoxious presentations of Boehner, McConnell, Bachmann, Perry, Kyl, Ryan and more, always faulting as “liberal” any consideration for the majority and literally pushing everything that benefits the few, being rationalized as “conservative” (with “ultra-conservative” just being a synonym for “big money”). The point being that it should be totally obvious that there is substantial control and pressure being exerted by the money people with the results being complete partiality shown them and with no conscience or honest consideration for the majority.

Reform is desperately needed, political reform allowing for financial reform and to encourage real bipartisan cooperation, that being what our government was designed for, and to then provide all other needed reform and an honest government. The Democrats are not “pure and holy”, not “all good and clean” by any measure but what they are, because of differences in ideology, is not attractive to “big money” and more oriented toward benefitting the majority, including the total middle-class who constantly loose the most. The Democrats need to be stronger, to be more unified and to be really focused on solving the problems without the results ever being too liberal. Simply, they are closer to accomplishing that then the Republicans are to ever breaking the hold “big money” has on them. It has been said that the Republicans, being owned by and with their concentration totally on benefitting “big money”, are completely incapable of ever honestly and effectively governing for the people. If we really want the Republicans to ever become the Grand Ole Party once again, with an emphasis on the people instead of just on their strong supporters who “pull their strings”, then we need to fully and totally reject what they have become. We need to push towards getting money out of politics and to start by rendering it ineffective, to just reject the manipulation. Good luck!