White House petition on ‘47 traitors’ draws more than 200,000 signatures

Capitol Report ^ | 5/12/15 | Robert Schroeder

[pgyanke]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — A petition on the White House’s web site calling for charges to be filed against 47 Republican senators who sent a letter to Iran’s leaders has garnered more than double the signatures it needs to draw a White House response.

The petition, on whitehouse.gov, was filed Monday and had 214,178 signatures as of mid-Thursday morning. To require a response from the White House, petitioners must secure 100,000 signatures within 30 days.

Some Republicans admit they were caught off guard by the backlash to the letter, which warned Iranian leaders against a nuclear agreement with President Barack Obama. Politico reported Sen. John McCain of Arizona, one of the signers of the letter, said Republicans should have given it closer consideration.

[Monorprise]

Not really sure what they said but from what I’ve gathered it was an open letter, thus no secrete, and simply stating a constitutional fact as well as their intent.

Not advice able to undermine a president’s ability to lie to foreign nations, but if there were any harm done by the lie it would only be because foreign leaders are incompetent.

[william clark]

How do they know it’s actually that many? To quote Beauregard Bottomley: “One ‘x’ looks like another.”