Too Rich

++The RNC will be flying off Saturday for a trip to Israel to express solidarity. 

++The trip is being organized by the American Family Association which held the prayer rally for Governor Jindal this past week and the prayer rally for Rick Perry to kick off his presidential bid last election.

++Now the slight problem with this is that their spokesman for many years and the Director of Analysis of Issue has been Bryan Fisher, who asserts that this is a Christian nation and those practicing any other religion do not have First Amendment rights. He also said that Nazism didn't cause the Holocaust but homosexuals who were recruited for the Gestapo because they were so vicious. 

++Haaretz published this story. The Southern Poverty Law Group blasted the trip as being organized by a "hate group". Fischer wasn't available for comment but a Mr. Lane told Haaretz that "America is a Christian nation and its goal is to spread the Christian faith."

++When the controversy hit today, the AFA fired Bryan Fischer and denounced the statements about the Holocaust, but did not renege on that we are a "Christian nation". 

++This has frequently happened before with Bibi. He received Rev, Hagee and snubbed Joe Biden. Remember Hagee said that the Holocaust was the judgment of God on the Jews but he was also the head of the Christians for Israel Committee. During the Clinton years, Bibi made a point of meeting with other extreme right Christian organizations.

++Yes, Rachel Maddow is right that this creates problems for Reince Preibus but what about the Israeli Ambassador Dermer, who got blasted tonight with a full page story in the New York Times. He was a Republican operative who worked with Frank Luntz. He must know the reputation of the American Family Association.

++P.S. George Washington explicitly answered anxieties from Jewish communities about whether Judaism could be practiced in the United States. John Adams went further in his letters to northern Africa by asserting we were "not a Christian country". This has become a perversion of the extreme Right and now I fear the Republican Party in the 21st century.

++But the issue continues the Bibi flap and what games he is playing with American political groups.