When Genêt tried his luck at a partisan divide-and-conquer move on the Washington administration, Jefferson and Hamilton formed a united front against him.
Eric Cantor is apparently not as principled as his Virginia forefather.
I have no problem with Cantor sympathizing with Israel. Any citizen and certainly any representative voting on foreign affairs issues has a right to his opinion and a right to disagree with and vote against the president. To meet with a foreign head of state and tell that head of state he has his back seems like a different matter entirely. There's a reason why foreign policy isn't conducted by the states. There's a reason why the Constitution has arranged executive powers in the way that it has. This is a disconcerting precedent, which I think is being downplayed because everyone (rightly) considers Israel an ally. But there's a difference between being a solid ally and getting a sentimental attachment to a foreign nation-state and subverting Constituional division of powers to pursue that attachment.
Oh, please
ReplyDeleteWhen people like the Kennedys support the IRA, nobody says squat nor when Negroes support Nelson Mandela.
Let a Jew support his people overseas and somehow that's BAD! go away, moron.
As an admin, it's always difficult to decide whether or not to delete comments like this. To a certain extent they make for criticism enough of themselves, and so seem worth leaving up.
ReplyDeleteSounds fine to me, Evan.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll remind the commenter that I said I was perfectly fine with Cantor supporting Israel.
So I googled our friend emanuel - he has a habit of overreacting to anything he perceives as being anti-Israel or anti-semitic.
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say this blog is neither, so you can rest easy emanuel. You can also update your vocabulary for referencing different ethnic groups.