Dear Representative Walters:
First I must extend to you my
congratulations on your election to and service in the 114th
Congress of the United States. I hope you serve well and honorably
and do well by your constituents and by the Nation.
I watched the SOTU last night and I
was impressed not just with the President's presentation but also by
the dignity exhibited by your caucus. Your Members were for the most
part dignified and pretty well behaved given their behavior in recent
prior years.
What I am bothered about is that the
Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader have taken upon themselves to
wander off into the political territory generally occupied by Article
2 of our Constitution e
xecuting the powers of the Executive. I fully
understand that the House and the Senate exercise lawful control over
the Hill and it is within its rights to invite whomever it wishes to
invite to speak to it. However such invitations should have at least
some governmental and public purpose to them and the consequent
disruption of their primary purpose, providing for the legislative
governance of the Nation. The invitation extended to the Prime
Minister of Israel Benjamen Netanyahu seems totally devoid of any
public purpose or to accomplish anything of benefit given the duty
of the Congress to work towards not only protecting the “state of
the union” but also furthering the Founders' purpose of ensuring a
“more perfect” one.
Mr. Netanyahu is regarded by many
intelligent and thoughtful people both in and outside government to
be a terrorist and a practitioner of state sanctioned terrorism. One
only needs to recall the events between Israel and Gaza during the
past year to recall acts of barbarism and terrorism on his part.
For Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell to
invite Netanyahu to address the Congress for no good reason other
than to embarrass the President of the United States is truly beyond
the pale constitutionally and gives at least tacit support to the
wrongful acts of Israel and its prime minister. I urge you to
publicly disavow the action of your leaders.
Sincerely,
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