Be My, Be My Bibi

So I turn on the TV and there's Bibi Netanyahu addressing Congress--he had taken advantage of Obama's absence to have himself sworn in as president of the United States!

And there was that traitor, vice president Joe Biden, sitting in the back with benign acceptance of that unprecedented coup d'tat!

I didn't quite fathom the details of the speech but every time Netanyahu mentioned Israel, the assembled rose to their feet and fingersnapped approval like beatniks at a bistro.

What a sickening display of obeisance for a foreign leader crowning himself president-for-a-day while Obama is in Ireland drinking Guinness and flying to England to ask the royal newlyweds how things are going.

Through my Washington sources, I understand that Republicans are "feeling Bibi out" (now there's an unappetizing picture) about running for the Republican nomination, since everybody who's declared themselves a candidate has been a crushing disappointment, although the primaries are still months away and everyone who dropped out was a dud anyway. When you have your hopes pinned on Mitch Daniels, it's time to put down the hookah pipe and stop dreaming about a savior on a Segway riding to the rescue. You're really dipping into the minnow pond when you start trial-ballooning a frequent guest on Fox News's Red Eye--i.e., a complete unknown--because he has the high nicotine intake and rock-star star attitude of a political rebel who "represents an underrepresented cadre of off-beat, libertarian conservatives." Any libertarian conservative who considers himself off-beat should just turn in his guitar pick and stop conning himself.

Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/05/be-my-be-my-bibi.html

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