Posted on 03/26/2015 4:24:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
The snarky quip attributed to 19th-century French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -- "It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder" -- has recently been making the rounds to deride a letter written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and signed by 46 other senators.
They wrote to the Iranian theocracy that any agreement on nuclear proliferation negotiated with President Obama will not constitutionally bind the next administration -- unless it is properly ratified by Congress.
Democrats were outraged. They charged that Cotton's letter is a crime, a violation of the 216-year-old Logan Act. That law bars unauthorized individuals from conducting negotiations with foreign governments.
Even some Republicans sighed that the letter was a political blunder. It supposedly plays into President Obama's caricature of right-wing and obstructionist conservatives.
In fact, the letter was not a crime or a blunder.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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Obama is a poisonous traitor and enemy of America. Anything anyone in Congress or the courts does to undermine him and his destructive agenda should be supported.
Sen. Tom Cotton=HERO!
VDH ping ... thanks for the ping Kaslin!
The letter was not a blunder or a crime.
It is the lies of Traitorobama, his buttboy demonicrats and RINOS and the fifth-column media that give aid and comfort to the enemy.
I would pray that our entire leadership, all members of Congress were of the caliber and quality of Tom Cotton.
Sen. Cotton understands the nature of the threat, in and out of our government, as well as the Islamic threat to our country and friends. We are at war, why don’t we get on at it? Since when has the excuse that the citizens of this country are tired of war been an acceptable excuse for not doing what we must do?
He sure is
You’re welcome
Of course it wasn’t and VDH says so in the 5th paragraph of the article
It was an OPEN LETTER. Never sent. It really does not matter to me but it was not out of bounds.
This “Logan Act” sounds unconstitutional anyway.
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