Recall, if you will, the shameful way the Mississippi Pub primary went down last year, allowing Cochran to emerge victorious.Republicans in the upper chamber who didn’t sign the letter were Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Bob Corker (Tenn.), Dan Coats (Ind.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska).
Also, so sad to see confirmation that my own Senator (Coats) is afflicted with Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome.
The New York Daily News isn’t messing around. Today's cover,shows the pics of your Magnificant 47 above a huge headline reading TRAITORS.
ReplyDeleteThat, of course, is in response to the 47 Republican senators who sent an open letter to Iran’s leaders warning them about how whatever deal President Obama strikes with them won’t be completely valid without Congress’ approval.
Democrats have been furious, and the strong language isn’t limited to the Daily News. There is a petition on the White House website accusing these Republicans of treason. As of this posting, it already has over 6,000 signatures.
Read more at http://www.mediaite.com/online/tomorrows-ny-daily-news-cover-calls-gop-sens-traitors-over-iran-letter/
Of course, I saw the NYDN cover during my first round of the Net this morning. I would expect nothing less from that organ.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know, great patriots to you. Israeli patriots.
ReplyDeleteLee Hamilton says shame on you too, but hurrah for Dan Coates and the other 7 dwarfs who did not sign. This is no way to show opposition. Yep, traitor dogs who think they have the majority support of their constituencies. We'll see what the polls say. Former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton, who is supportive of the negotiations and served on the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran while he was in office, says he commends Coats for not signing the letter.
ReplyDelete“I can’t see how [the letter] is in our interest in any way,” Hamilton says. “Even if you oppose the agreement, it does not seem to be in our interest to try to weaken the president’s hand at this point, which this does.”
Read more at http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/sen-coats-breaks-party-iran-letter-79195/
Lee Hamilton was and is woefully under-baked as a foreign-policy figure.
ReplyDeleteA distinguished Congressman with 36 years (18 terms) service. Also very knowledgeable about the middle east as Democratic co-Chairman of the Iraq Study Group. I don't call that woefully under-baked, just differing opinions from yours. Your ilk are not the only consideration, you know. You're traitors to some. Hawks pretty much sums it up. And patriotic Israelis, but only problem with that is you're Americans.
ReplyDeleteThe Iraq Study Group was utterly worthless.
ReplyDeleteYour tack is utterly divisive.
ReplyDelete"Maybe that wasn’t exactly the best way to do that,” said the utterly worthless reasonable gentleperson oft maligned in these pages to Fox News. Are the polls out on it yet? Gallup says Nettie's approval rating went down 7 points after he hijacked our Congress.
ReplyDeleteOf course you'll trash them, but a lot of folks like and still read the NYT which ended an editorial on the subject thus today:
ReplyDelete"The best and only practical way to restrain Iran from developing a bomb is through negotiating a strict agreement with tough monitoring. In rejecting diplomacy, the Republicans make an Iranian bomb and military conflict more likely." Rat tat tat......I know, I know, preemption can be preventive. Hogwash and dog vomit.
The New York Times editorial board is always full of shit and you know that underneath your desire to maintain some kind of stance in opposition to the conservative truth.
ReplyDeleteAnd you know that what the sane voices are calling for is regime change in Iran. It wouldn't involve military force - or, at least we could have been sure that was the case as recently as 2009, when the Green Revolution occurred in response to the rigged election.
A petition calling for charges to be filed against 47 U.S. Senators who sent an open letter to the leaders of Iran, in alleged violation of the Logan Act (a law that forbids unauthorized citizens to negotiate with foreign governments) has already collected over 165,000 signatures. I can't imagine the Justice Department actually going after the 47, or the constitutional and political crisis that would ensue if it did. Yet I think it important that our voices be heard on this matter. Allowing a political party to conduct its own foreign policy undermines the authority of the President and poses a threat to the peace and security of all Americans. I urge you to add your name, and send a clear signal that this behavior is unacceptable.
ReplyDeleteYour tactics are not helping your fearful leader at all. Ding Dong, the monger might be dead!
ReplyDeleteWe have four more polls released today, only a handful of days out from the Israeli election. They show a small but clear and hardening lead for the Zionist Camp/Labor Party over Netanyahu's Likud. Three polls show ZC/Labor with a four-seat lead over Likud. Another shows a two-point advantage for ZC/Labor. (Here's the best aggregation of all the polls here.)
(Just after I published this post, two new polls were released, each also showing a four-seat ZC/Labor lead.)
Two points stand out in the polls. Likud is dropping and now ZC/Labor seems to be rising — at least a bit. Also notable is that the center-right bloc itself seems to be under pressure
Read more at http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/continuing-rough-polls-for-netanyahu
If he's freely elected, OK, that's the way, but, if it isn't the low info voter, it's the foreign conspiracy (vast?).
ReplyDeleteTrailing in the polls, Benjamin Netanyahu claims a foreign conspiracy is trying to depose him. In a Facebook post Friday, Netanyahu claimed that foreign money is being funneled to his opponents in a bid to unseat the Likud leader. “The rule of the right is in danger. Left-wing supporters and the media in Israel and outside of Israel have joined forces to raise Tzipi and Bougie to power in a way that is not legitimate,” he wrote, referring to his opponents Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni.
That's so Jewish, claiming money wins things. Well, I guess it does and it so so sucks. How'd Nettie end up without enough? If his mother were around, he'd get an earful.
I presume he thinks he has a corner on legitimacy.
Read more at https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/13/netanyahu_claims_foreign_conspiracy_is_trying_to_depose_him/?utm_content=bufferc68df&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Damn, somebody has more money than that Juden? Its so very late in the day.
ReplyDeleteere are times when campaign slogans really do say it all. Israel’s governing Likud Party shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on its billboards with the caption, “It’s us or them,” the “them” left vague enough to imply both his political challengers and the enemies that surround the Jewish state. The new center-left Zionist Union alliance of Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni countered with: “It’s us or him.” Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/13/world/middleeast/israel-elections-candidates.html?_r=0
ReplyDeleteThe thought occurs that there is opposition to Netanyahu in his own country. Here, you talk as if opposition to him by Americans is somehow unpatriotic.
ReplyDeleteThe "us or them" slogan is spot-on. It's the same thing I say regularly about post-America's political situation: the Democrat party is one of this country's enemies, alongside Iran, North Korea, ISIS and al-Qaeda. Herzog and Livni would seek to legitimize the Iranian regime when there is only one course of action that should be taken: undermine it, so that it can be overthrown from within.
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