Biden will skip Netanyahu’s speech

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/butterfield-refuseniks-netanyahu

Update: Politico is reporting that Vice President Joe Biden will be out of town when Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to come to Washington to address a joint session of Congress, March 3.

The vice president’s office on Friday confirmed the plans to skip the March 3 speech.

“We are not ready to announce details of his trip yet, and normally our office wouldn’t announce this early, but the planning process has been underway for a while,” a spokesperson for the office said.

Amazing. This will give permission to a lot of Democrats to make other plans and will embarrass the rightwing prime minister. *Even as various Jewish organizations are saying they are going to be collecting the names of those who don’t show up. This is a big name alright!

In the words of VP Biden, "This is a Big Fucking deal."


*WTF???

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Good!

Thank you, Cousin Joe!!!!

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. "This is a Big Fucking deal" - VP Joe Biden

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Joe tells it like it is!

A perky branch of my family tree!

[BlueCaliDem]

4. Good! eom

[Blue Owl]

5. Fuck Yahu Serious

n/t

[azurnoir]

6. according to Times of Israel Biden is leaving to avoid "awkwardness" at sitting behind Netanyahu

Biden’s overseas trip allows the White House to avoid the awkwardness of having the vice president sit behind Netanyahu during the address. It’s unclear where the vice president plans to travel, though his office said the unspecified trip was in the works before the prime minister’s trip was announced.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/biden-will-not-attend-netanyahus-congress-speech/#ixzz3R0lPKQ9Z

ya right

[Israeli]

7. Yes !!!

" 40 Democrats also expected to skip "

Wow .

Good news for a change .

****

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’

[LeftishBrit]

8. Good

Let's hope that the Israeli voters snub Netanyahu too!