• Sources at MSNBC say they need a conservative president in office for their ratings to recover. We’re working on it as fast as we can, guys.
• Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress. The atmospherics threatened to smother the speech: Speaker John Boehner invited him, and Republicans applauded enthusiastically. But the administration snubbed him: President of the Senate Joe Biden was sent abroad, so as to be MIA; 50-some Democrats boycotted; minority leader Nancy Pelosi attended, but writhed theatrically. The message, though, was blunt: “The greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.” The deal President Obama is negotiating with the Iranians “is a bad deal, a very bad deal.” A timely warning, or a wasted effort? President Obama is determined to hear it as the latter. But Netanyahu also hinted that Israel would strike Iran alone if need be. “The days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies are over.” So the president’s diplomacy might provoke a covert nuclear power into striking a would-be nuclear power in the heart of the Middle East. Isn’t it good we saw the last of Cowboy Bush?
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