Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
I think you missed a biggie, Senators McCain and Lieberman opposing our President's Middle East policy in a public interview while on foreign soil. Quite ugly. They basically said, "The President can say what he likes, but we will prevent him from altering policy."

To me this is roughly equivalent to having two top-shelf Dem Senators declaring that they would prevent a Republican president from applying any pressure to Chávez while they tour Venezuela. But then, I guess this falls into the "Israel can do no wrong" thing that I have never understood.
They opposed the Middle East Envoy's statements - something that wasn't repeated or supported publicly by Obama. And the situation with Israel is quite different from Venezuela.

I find the whole idea that Republicans are bringing about a new era of obstruction quite exaggerated. Or maybe Bush was simply a much more effective leader. And didn't Pelosi do a tour of the Mid-east when Bush was president?

No it isn't, the oxymoronical "right" who are against progress, want to regress to states such as having a heirarchical monarchy.
Care to actually try to discuss things instead of failed attempts at one-liners in all the threads you post in?

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