Watch this space. Chris Matthews just started, I’m making dinner; and in the tease, he’s asking why Republican lawmakers are lining up with a foreign prime minister against their president — Netanyahu and AIPAC. If Democrats did this, the Republicans would be all over them, he said.
So the wedge has been driven, on party lines. And if this is what it takes to politicize the issue, I’ll take it.
UPDATE: The pudding turned out to be lukewarm. Matthews cast the story as Republicans siding with Netanyahu on a point that Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton had already accepted — ’67 lines. And said that when the inevitable deal is struck, the Israelis will have most of Jerusalem. “We all knew that.”
And then Matthews said that he would show us how Herman Cain, a candidate for the Republican nomination, has no understanding of a basic issue in the Middle East.
The right of return. Apparently Cain said he had no intelligence about the issue when he was asked by Chris Wallace– then later issued a statement denouncing the right of return.
So again, you see what is happening: Obama has driven the wedge, on party lines. Forget about party, let’s talk about dual loyalty and the right of return. Oooweee, riding be high, tomorrow’s the day that my brides are going to come! Oh and my headline is from Huck Finn. I’m in, and up to the hub!!
