Was thinking of doing a post about the worst deal anyone could have ever imagined – the Iran nuke deal – as well as the leftist rants against the 47 Republican conservative lawmakers (remember that…they are LAWMAKERS); but this political cartoon states the obvious:
I watched part of the Senate hearing on the authorization of a new AMUF, and Secretary of State John Kerry just had to go out and spew all kinds of nonsense regarding the concerns of not only the 47 Senators that signed onto the letter to Tehran (and also meant for this BADministration to look at!); but the concerns of millions of Americans, too! Kerry just ended up looking silly when Senator Rand Paul had his say!
Here are some good blog posts about all of this:
Wintery Knight: Did Republican senators do anything wrong by writing a letter to Iran’s leaders?
Excerpt:
[Steve] Hayes also had a longer form article posted at The Weekly Standard:
In a tweet this morning, NBC News senior political editor Mark Murray writes: “With GOP Senators’ Iran Move, Politics Goes Beyond the Water’s Edge.” 47 Republican Senators sent to the Supreme Leader of Iran reminding him that Congress is not bound by deals that Congress does not approve. The article Murray links to describes this as “stunning” and “unprecedented” and implies that the letter constitutes a breach of protocol so significant that it ends the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy.
This is utterly preposterous.
The only way to reach such a conclusion is to ignore efforts by Democrats to undermine George W. Bush.
In September 2002, David Bonior, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, flew to Baghdad in an attempt to undermine George W. Bush’s case for war in Iraq on a trip paid for by Saddam Hussein’s regime. Bonior, accompanied by Representatives Jim McDermott and Mike Thompson, actively propagandized for the Iraqi regime. McDermott, asked whether he found it acceptable to be used by the Iraqi regime, said he hoped the trip would end the suffering of children. “We don’t mind being used,” he said.
In 2004, the Democratic Party offered its full embrace of Michael Moore’s fantastical conspiracy theory,Fahrenheit 9/11. Minority Leader Tom Daschle, DNC chairman Terry MacAullife and assorted Democratic heavyweights flocked to a special screening of the film in Washington, DC, where they offered unreserved praise.
In 2007, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Damascus, Syria, in an open attempt to undercut White House efforts to isolate Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Pelosi amplified Assad’s claims that he was ready for peace talks with Israel and wanted Syria to rejoin the international community.
The letter from Senate Republicans provides a stark contrast from these efforts. It is a straightforward, fact-based description of the U.S. constitutional system and the role Congress plays in international agreements and treaties.
It takes a selective reading of that history to conclude that this letter, as opposed to previous efforts by congressional Democrats, means the end of bipartisan foreign policy.
I think it’s wonderful that Republicans are doing everything possible to try to put the brakes on the Obama administration’s efforts to lift sanctions on Iran so that they can proceed to develop nuclear weapons at a faster pace.
And there you have it! The ongoing and completely legitimate concern is that lifting sanctions on Iran would allow them to develop nuclear weapons much sooner than if the sanctions stayed in place!
What’s more, the weasel-like rhetoric coming from “lizard-tongued” Kerry and his ilk are all smoke and mirrors! That’s right…they should LOOK IN THE MIRROR to see what they did in the past to undermine President George W. Bush – as reiterated by Steve Hayes’ article!
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Ohhhhh Myyyyy!! I watched this exchange happen live on TV this morning and it was a real bang-your-head-against-the-wall moment! It made me scream across the house to my husband that Kerry is a #*&@%$@#^?! idiot and such a liar that I can’t even stand to watch and listen to him!!! Go watch the video at the Last Refuge link.
Excerpt:
Which leads to the obvious retort from Senator Tom Cotton:
Important question: if deal with Iran isn’t legally binding, then what’s to keep Iran from breaking said deal and developing a bomb?
Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Martin Dempsey testified today at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on President Obama’s request for authorization for use for military force (AUMF) against ISIS. -full hearing here-
My question… did Kerry and this Marxist/Islamic sympathizing BADministration even think of such a scenario???
However, Democrats strategically planted a question for Secretary John Kerry (by Senator Chris Murphy) to attack Republican Senators for their recent controversial open letter to Iran. Kerry had a scripted response for the question he was anticipating. Within that response was the startling statement/claim the White House is not negotiating a “legally binding agreement with Iran” to stop their nuclear weapons program.
Seriously people…the progressives (programmed regressives) in the Democrat party have completely lost their minds if they think they have any smidgen of an honest broker with these fanatical mullahs in this awful “deal-making” charade with Iran!!
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Finally, Nice Deb: Democrats Calling 47 GOP Senators Traitors is the Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Excerpt:
Soon after the letter was made public, an incensed Obama suggested that the senators were in league with mad mullahs of Tehran:
“I think it’s somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners in Iran. It’s an unusual coalition.”
Here is what the letter stated, and you tell me if they are making common cause with our enemies:
“The next president,” the letter stated, “could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen, and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time.”
It would seem the Republicans in Congress are in agreement with the Prime Minister of Israel and the leaders of the Arab world who fear that the Obama administration is brokering a terrible deal with the mad mullahs – a deal of appeasement and capitulation. A deal that allows Iran to go nuclear.
This is not what any sane person would call “making common cause with hard-liners.”
The photo below demonstrates the type of a man which is (supposedly) running the show:
Oh Dear Lord!!! Please save our nation and the world from this circus clown and his ilk!!!
Hat tips to all links.
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