Claudia Rosset discloses that the US pays $7 Billion/year to the UN and that,
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Yet the chief effort currently on the table to reform the UN — Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s “United Nations Transparency, Accountability and Reform Act of 2011? — is playing in Washington as an utterly partisan issue. There are so far 98 co-sponsors for this bill, and not a single Democrat among them.
Why’s that? The Hill reports that according to Rose-Lehtinen, the Obama administration is telling Democrats to stay away from her bill. The bill seeks to clean up the UN by revamping some of its financial incentives — basically proposing to condition a substantial share of U.S. money on UN performance. This would include potentially withholding some of the assessed dues with which the UN General Assembly bankrolls its self-approved and ever-expanding budgets, for which the U.S. dutifully pays 22%. The administration’s argument against this approach takes the line that if America stops automatically dispensing money at the UN’s demand, it would reduce U.S. influence and ability to reform the UN.
Rose-Lehtinen’s bill must pass. 2013 can’t come soon enough.
Yes, folks, this is a wonderful example of just how stupid Obama thinks we all are.
There is historical precedent for the fact of the U.S. witholding funding from the UN leading to reforms we want. I believe Bush #41 did this successfully, if memory serves. We know this works. We’re the biggest single donor, and money talks at the UN as loudly as it does anywhere else (just ask the Saudis, and boy do they know about that). But in Obama’s upside down universe, we can only get them to change if we DON’T penalize them for not changing.
I wonder if this is how Obama treats his kids….?
Barack: “Now, Sasha, you didn’t do your homework last night, or the night before that. So, I’m giving you dessert tonight. And, I’ll keep letting you have dessert. Since I’m being so nice about giving you dessert no matter what, I know you’ll see that since I’m such a nice person, you’ll start doing your homework. And if you don’t….well, I’ll give you dessert anyway. Maybe I’ll give you an even BIGGER dessert than you’d get otherwise, just to show you that I’d never be so mean as to deny your dessert as a way of altering your behavior. Since I’m being EXTRA nice to you in the face of your bad behavior, surely, now you’ll see that you MUST start doing your homework…”
Michelle: “Wait a second! Daggummit, Sasha, if you don’t do your homework, NO DESSERT TONIGHT!”
Barack: “Michelle!!! What are you trying to do? If we don’t give Sasha her dessert, we’ll lose all of our leverage with her!! Are you crazy???!!!”
One more thing:
The fact that NCHO (Neville Carter Hussein Obama) can just order ALL Democrats in Congress to stay away from this bill, tells you that all platitudes and nice speeches aside, when it comes to concrete policy – ESPECIALLY IF IT CONCERNS THE ADMINISTRATION’S ABILITY TO PRESSURE ISRAEL (his demonstrated #1 priority) – this President cracks the whip, and every Democrat in Congress falls in line.
Therefore, Caroline Glick is right, support for Israel is clearly a partisan issue. That may stink, that may not be the situation we want, but that is a fact.
The Democrats can’t be counted on for squat, and have been completely corrupted by the other side. There may be Republicans that are no better, but at least most of them are still our friends. And if we don’t reward them while penalizing the Democrats for their outrageously cowardly and treacherous behavior – surely many of them have to know how stupid this policy of Obama’s is, yet NONE speak out – we deserve everything we get.
A big AMEN!
“Reduce” it from what?
What “influence & ability to reform” it have we HAD that could be reduced?
How stupid does the administration think we are?
The world would be better off if the UN disappeared.