In the grand halls of the U.S. Capitol, where usually only the most pressing matters of state are discussed — like naming post offices or debating how much foreign aid we’re going to send to Israel and Ukraine — a different kind of celebration was brewing.
The Republican wing of Congress threw a grand soiree to celebrate the passage of a bill aimed at shielding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from being held accountable for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The event, dubbed "Netanyahu's No-Nonsense Night Out," was filled with the kind of pomp and circumstance usually reserved for presidential inaugurations. There was endless caviar and the champagne was flowing like it was being subsidized by the Pentagon.
Speaker after speaker took to the podium, not to discuss America's illegal immigration crisis or the skyrocketing national debt, but to toast to their "heroic" efforts in passing H.R. 23, the "Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act."
This bill, with its fancy name, essentially tells the ICC, "Thanks, but no thanks" for trying to investigate or prosecute any "protected person" of the U.S. and its allies, notably including Netanyahu, who's facing some rather inconvenient arrest warrants for alleged war crimes. The bill was voted on with a resounding 243-140-1.
Amidst the clinking of glasses and the chatter, one name was conspicuously absent from the guest list: Representative Thomas Massie.
According to our inside source at the Capitol, Massie was not invited to this international America-First celebration of Netanyahu’s expensive protection.
“You have to have an AIPAC guy to get invited to events like this,” our source told us over the phone.
Massie, who voted "present" on this bill, had the audacity to question, "Where are our priorities?" when he learned that one of the first bills to be voted on after the Speaker election was all about protecting Netanyahu.
The Kentucky Congressman has long been vocal about his belief that the U.S. shouldn't meddle in disputes between other countries, focusing instead on “making America first.”
In a room where the air was thick with irony, the irony of celebrating a bill to protect a foreign leader from justice was lost on all but one —Thomas Massie.
As the night wore on and the speeches got longer and less coherent, the celebration for Netanyahu's protection from the ICC continued, a testament to how far some will go to avoid accountability, all while Massie, the unsung hero of American priorities, was at home spending some time with his family
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