Schumer poised to join Johnson invite for Netanyahu address to Congress

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

05/02/24 5:54 PM ET


Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is poised to join Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress, despite tensions between the Israeli leader and many Democrats over the ongoing war in the Middle East.

Johnson told The Hill this week that he sent Schumer a draft invitation around a month ago, but the Senate leader has been sitting on it since. “I sent a letter draft, because it’s a bicameral invitation letter, it’s been sitting on Chuck Schumer’s desk. As far as I know he has not cosigned it yet,” Johnson said, adding that it was sent “probably a month ago.”.

But now, Schumer is ready to sign on, according to his office. “He intends to join the invitation, the timing is being worked out,” the Senate leader’s spokesperson told The Hill. The Hill was first to report on Johnson’s draft invitation and Schumer’s plan to sign it.

Netanyahu’s visit — if it does materialize — is sure to spark outrage among liberals, who have strongly criticized the prime minister’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war and the growing number of civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4640068-schumer-johnson-netanyahu-invite/

[SalamanderSleeps]

1. Not helping.

Bebe fix your own house before you even think about lecturing ours.

WTF is Schumer thinking?

[jimfields33]

2. The congress has so much more information than the public.

Maybe this is a prudent move that we don’t know why yet.

[Omnipresent]

4. God knows!

Bebe probably wants to reassure Congress, that Israel needs more money and weapons to stabilize the Middle East.
Good luck with that pitch, Bebe!

[SKKY]

3. Unless this is to announce a cease fire...

...I fail to see how this helps.

[Bucky]

5. Israelis don't want him speaking for their government...

This invitation can only serve to fan the flames. There will be massive protests outside of Congress for giving this irresponsible hatemonger and possible war criminal a platform of honor.

Why should America be bolstering him right now? I think this is Schumer covering his ass with pro-Israeli voters back home after criticizing Netanyahu last month. As Tip said: all politics is local.

[LuvLoogie]

6. We're sacrificing our democracy

to the whims of the fascist Knesset.

Jailing our youth who are protesting Netanyahu's ethnic cleansing, firing rubber bullets at them and cutting off the one media platform the powers that be don't control.

[lark]

7. Bad move Schumer.

Netanyahu will just savage the Dems and Biden, he is a murdering genocidal grifter and does not deserve the respect of speaking to Congress - and Schumer knows this but is pandering.

[machoneman]

8. Why give this major asshole a reason to lecture U.S. legislators?

[BeyondGeography]

9. Schumer has called for Netanyahu to step down

So has Pelosi for that matter. Now he’s inviting him to speak to Congress? How does this not make him, and by extension the Democratic Party, look like fools?

[Lonestarblue]

10. Exactly. This should be a hard no.

[Bayard]

11. Not that we have any say in the matter,

But this will bring protests that will make the latest protests look like a kid's birthday party.

[LeftInTX]

12. Ugh....

[maxsolomon]

13. We shall see what we shall see.

The House is going to invite no matter what.

NOT extending a Senate invite has consequences, too.