Posted on 03/11/2015 8:55:52 AM PDT by cotton1706
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday praised the Republican senators who declined to sign a controversial open letter to Iran.
"I'm heartened ... that a few Republicans, seven to be exact, didn't sign the letter. That's nice. Seven out of 54, certainly seven better than nothing," Reid said from the Senate floor.
The open letter, signed by 47 Senate Republicans, states that any deal reached on Iran's nuclear program could be overturned “with the stroke of a pen” after President Obama leaves the White House in 2017.
Republican Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Dan Coats (Ind.), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Thad Cochran (Miss.) did not sign the letter, and several of them have criticized it as inappropriate.
Democrats and the White House have slammed the 47 Republican senators who signed the letter, saying they are threatening to undermine the United States’ bargaining in the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.
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yep!
absolutely!
Yeah, but I was born in Mississippi....how bad can it get?
Any time Reid is ‘heartened’ it means that millions of Americans will potentially be in misery.
The two Tennessee turds didn’t sign, who’d a thunk it...
You hit that nail right on the head.
Corker and Alexander always vote with the Democrats but we can’t seem to get them out for some reason. We have many that are much better conservatives than those two!
Nah, if there's a chance we are going to drop bombs on somebody, McCain will be right there to support it. Picking a fight with Iran is right up his alley.
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