Posted on 03/09/2015 4:13:18 PM PDT by Dave346
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.
A letter is bad but invading a US Embassy and seizing 52 diplomats and holding them as hostages for almost two years is understandable?
We have a Secretary of State who negotiated with the Viet Cong while he was still a junior officer in the Navy.
Big surprise. The MSM slants everything as to how best make their boy in the white hut look good and his democratic accomplices also look good.
It was about the time of the seizure of the Tehran embassy that I started explaining/complaining to people about how insane the Shiites are, especially the Iranians.
People didn’t listen. I got so I could talk to about 3 people.
More recently, I would mention the Muslim Brotherhood and what it’s doing in the US, and the words fell like dust.
Very disheartening. People do NOT KNOW.
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