Snub of historic proportions to elected leader of free world
LARA MARLOWE
IrishTImes
AMERICA: IT WAS a profound show of disrespect for the office of president, a crime of lèse-majesté.
I could find no record of congressional leaders ever refusing an invitation to the White House before. That is what John Boehner, who will become Republican speaker of the House in January, and Mitch McConnell, the leading Republican senator, did on Wednesday.
On one day's notice, they postponed their scheduled meeting with the president - which was to have sought a way out of partisan gridlock - from November 18th until November 30th, after Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess.
The Republicans were just too busy to talk to the president. They vaguely cited the need to greet the 61 newly elected Republican representatives, who were in town for "freshman orientation". Obama had spoken hopefully of detaining Boehner and McConnell for dinner. The snub was total.
(More here.)
IrishTImes
AMERICA: IT WAS a profound show of disrespect for the office of president, a crime of lèse-majesté.
I could find no record of congressional leaders ever refusing an invitation to the White House before. That is what John Boehner, who will become Republican speaker of the House in January, and Mitch McConnell, the leading Republican senator, did on Wednesday.
On one day's notice, they postponed their scheduled meeting with the president - which was to have sought a way out of partisan gridlock - from November 18th until November 30th, after Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess.
The Republicans were just too busy to talk to the president. They vaguely cited the need to greet the 61 newly elected Republican representatives, who were in town for "freshman orientation". Obama had spoken hopefully of detaining Boehner and McConnell for dinner. The snub was total.
(More here.)
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