{"id":8550,"date":"2015-03-12T19:42:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8550"},"modified":"2015-03-12T19:42:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:42:48","slug":"gops-letter-to-iran-its-obamas-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8550","title":{"rendered":"GOP's letter to Iran? It's Obama's fault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You knew it would come to this, didn’t you?<\/p>\n

Republican U.S. senators, trying to put some distance between themselves and what’s looking like a monumental cluster-bleep regarding The Letter that was sent to Iran regarding the nuclear negotiations, have done the impossible.<\/p>\n

They’ve gone from irresponsible to ridiculous. They’re blaming President Obama for their decision to fire off that message to the Iranian mullahs, encouraging them to oppose any nuclear treaty that gets hammered out.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/03\/10\/gop-obama-cotton-letter_n_6843204.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013<\/p>\n

Blame Obama!<\/em> That’s the ticket!<\/p>\n

Here’s how the Huffington Post, which I concede isn’t a friend of the GOP, reported it: “Those who support the letter — even some who didn’t add their names — deflected the blame. If it weren’t for Obama’s failure to consult lawmakers about the negotiations, or his threatened veto of a proposed bill to give Congress the final vote on a nuclear agreement, senators wouldn’t have had to speak out in the first place, they argued.<\/p>\n

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\u201c’I think that, no doubt, the fact that the president, you know, issued a veto threat on a very common-sense piece of legislation, probably evoked, you know, a good deal of passion,’ Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told The Huffington Post Tuesday. Corker, who is leading the push for a veto-proof majority on the bill to grant Congress oversight of a nuclear agreement, did not sign letter, which was organized by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). Nevertheless, he showed no signs of ill will toward his junior colleague.<\/p>\n

\u201c’No, no, no,’ Corker responded, when asked if he was concerned Cotton\u2019s letter would cost the bill much-needed Democratic votes.”<\/p>\n

There’s more on the link attached to this post, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n

The Gang of 47 sent The Letter because President Obama didn’t consult with Republican lawmakers about the negotiations, the GOP line of defense goes.<\/p>\n

I applaud Sen. Corker for remaining part of a dwindling Reasonable Republican Senate Caucus; he was one of seven GOP senators who didn’t sign The Letter.<\/p>\n

However, his assertion — along with those who did<\/em> sign the document — that this is Barack Obama’s fault is about as “funny” as the statement by GOP congressional aides reported in The Daily Beast that the senators were being “cheeky,” that they meant The Letter to be something of a joke.<\/p>\n

I’m trying real hard right now to pick up the sound of laughter. I don’t hear anything.<\/p>\n

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You knew it would come to this, didn’t you? Republican U.S. senators, trying to put some distance between themselves and what’s looking like a monumental cluster-bleep regarding The Letter that was sent to Iran regarding the nuclear negotiations, have done the impossible. They’ve gone from irresponsible to ridiculous. They’re blaming President Obama for their decision … Continue reading GOP's letter to Iran? It's Obama's fault<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[540,680,1941,2210,2314,2319,4841],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-bob-corker","tag-gop","tag-huffington-post","tag-iran-letter","tag-iran-nukes","tag-tom-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}