{"id":19533,"date":"2015-02-05T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19533"},"modified":"2015-02-05T12:14:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:14:02","slug":"tell-u-s-congress-not-to-attend-netanyahus-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/02\/05\/tell-u-s-congress-not-to-attend-netanyahus-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell U.S. Congress not to attend Netanyahu\u2019s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Roots Action<\/em> has sent me an email with a <a title=\"Roots Action Petition\" href=\"http:\/\/act.rootsaction.org\/p\/dia\/action3\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=10843\" target=\"_blank\">link to a petition to sign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead of letting diplomacy work, Netanyahu wants the U.S. to impose harsher sanctions on Iran, all but ensuring that talks collapse and increasing the risk of war.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/act.rootsaction.org\/o\/6503\/images\/skipspeechheader2.jpg\" alt=\"Skip The Speech Image\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not about to let Netanyahu dictate to us when we should go to war.\u00a0 His attempt to influence U.S. politics has gone way beyond the acceptable. Congress&#8217;s negotiation with a foreign power probably violates a number of U.S. laws &#8211; see the <a title=\"WikiPedia article on the Logan Act\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Logan_Act\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Violation of the Logan Act is a <a title=\"Felony\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Felony\">felony<\/a>, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps the members of Congress want to prove that they know what an impeachable act is.\u00a0 Maybe they want to try it on for size before seeing if they can accuse the President of other impeachable acts.<\/p>\n<p>What will it take for the majority to recognize that the Republicans have just gone too far?<\/p>\n<p>When will President Obama declare Israel&#8217;s Ambassador to the U.S. persona non grata and have him recalled to Israel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roots Action has sent me an email with a link to a petition to sign. Instead of letting diplomacy work, Netanyahu wants the U.S. to impose harsher sanctions on Iran, all but ensuring that talks collapse and increasing the risk of war. I am not about to let Netanyahu dictate to us when we should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19536,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions\/19536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}