As Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman addressed the American Jewish Committee Tuesday, The Lobby delivered its instructions to the ruling party, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports,

...AJCommittee board member Edith Everett asked Mehlman to “take a message” to President Bush to stop linking Israel and Iran.

“It does not help Israel and it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran,” Everett said.

Not content with dictating foreign policy, the room delivered spontaneous criticism on the RNC head...

[Everett] added that “it’s easy to understand why Iran is not worried about us” because Iraq is consuming so many U.S. resources.

Mehlman replied by acknowledging that Iraq was a “challenge,” but claimed it’s “less of a challenge than when Saddam Hussein was in power.”

The room filled with boos and hisses.