Here, in its entirety, is the New York Post’s editorial on Democrats blocking a bill that would put heavy sanctions on the so-called International Criminal Court – a farcical entity which is about as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel as it gets.
Dems block sanctions on the anti-US, anti-Israel ICC — just to spite Donald Trump
We get that Democrats want to show they’re mad at President Trump, but it’s pretty telling that they chose to hurt Israel — and Americans — to do it.
That is, by blocking the bill to slap sanctions on officials at the rabidly anti-American, anti-Israel International Criminal Court.
Mind you, many Dems backed the bill: 45 voted for it in the House, and some in the Senate were set to support it, too.
But they’re clearly peeved about Trump’s executive orders, particularly one freezing federal aid, and some openly declared their “nay” was their way of showing it.
“Donald Trump is making a run to take over all of government,” huffed Sen. Liz Warren (D-Mass.).
“So at this moment, we’re a ‘no’ on this bill and everything else that comes up.”
True, Warren hates Israel, even suggesting it has waged “genocide” against Gazans.
So surely she’d oppose sanctions on a body that wants to arrest Israel’s leader.
Yet at least three other Democrats — including Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), who both voted for the bill in the House before winning Senate seats in November — also suddenly switched sides.
And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who says he opposes “the ICC bias against Israel” and wants to see the court “drastically reformed and reshaped,” nonetheless rallied Dems to thwart the bill.
Schumer’s lame excuse: It was “poorly drafted” and would have “many unintended consequences.”
As if that’s ever stopped Democrats before.
Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) wound up as as the only Dem to back the bill, which got just 54 votes in favor, six short of the 60 needed to advance.
Democrats, in short, say they’re mad that the ICC has maliciously threatened to charge Americans with war crimes and lock up Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu for responding to Hamas’ Oct. 7 savagery — but they still chose this to express their fury at Trump.
Or maybe Trump-bashing is a pretext for killing the bill, and so appeasing the Israel-haters?
It sure looks like a dirty double game, much like the one Joe Biden played on so many issues.
It didn’t work well last fall, and will likely work worse in the future.
Do Democrats want to live in the wilderness forever?
Amazing, isn’t it? Democrats, undaunted by the fact that they have lost the presidency and both houses of congress, are continuing to act just as stupidly and arrogantly as they did when they controlled the Oval Office and the Senate.
I wonder if these geniuses realize that it is behavior like this which CAUSED them to suffer those losses last November.
And the icing on the cake is that, in this case, they are doing it in a way that damages the one and only democracy in the Middle East, which also happens to be our most important ally and our most prolific source of intelligence there.
I wonder how much longer Jews, as a group, are going to support the people who pull these kinds of stunts; how much more they can take.
As for the overall population? A second reminder – you saw how they voted last year. Do you think stunts like this will result in Democrats retrieving some of those votes or losing still more of them?
Sorry for insulting you with such an easy question. And sorry for schumer, warren and their political hack crew for making it so easy to answer.
