posted March 10, 2015 11:53 AM            

What do you think? - Robert Reich

posted March 10, 2015 04:39 PM            

I agree it was an afront to the American people.

Why> Because united we stand, divided we fall.

quote:

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Honorable people can disagree over policy. But this is no way to make America safer or stronger.

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You may say none or some of the parties involved were honorable but they shamed and back stabbed the U.S. by the letter of division and by default, you, me and our Grandchildren.

posted March 10, 2015 09:34 PM            

Typo I know.

posted March 11, 2015 08:48 AM            

Any agreement based on an "executive order" may survive only as long as that "executive" is in office. And even then, only if the Congress doesn't write specific legislation voiding the executive order.

It's not just Americans who oppose Iran's nuclear weapons program. Most of the rest of the world also oppose Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.

A Global “No” To a Nuclear-Armed Iran
Divisions on Sanctions and Use of Force

http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/05/18/a-global-no-to-a-nuclear-armed-iran/

Leftist airheads want O'Bomber to act like a banana republic dictator and go around the Congress...and Courts to enact his radical transformation of America. The only thing O'Bomber has managed to radically transform is the demoscat party. The majority of Americans despise O'Bomber's loony tunes far left agenda..including opening a pathway for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

posted March 11, 2015 12:39 PM            

Paired with Lindsey Graham promising allegiance to Netanyahu over his own president, and Congressional Republicans going behind the president's back to give Bibi a soapbox, it shows that -as since day one (2009) - the idea of Obama succeeding at anything is worse to them than scuttling the entire country.

posted March 12, 2015 10:46 AM            

This is reported to be a 10 year agreement at the end of which Iran would be free of the agreement and free to produce nuclear weapons...this is...IF Iran even honors the agreement in the first place and there's no past behavior by the terrorist nation of Iran which would point to the Iranian terrorists honoring any agreement.

posted March 13, 2015 12:18 PM            

This is when being elected by the very loud very small minority proves to be a pyrrhic victory.

posted March 14, 2015 09:37 AM            

Cotton & signers stepped into a pile of do-do and come vote time, he/they may regret it.

posted March 14, 2015 12:03 PM            

Those republicans sent the terrorist nation of Iran a heads up that O'Bomber's bad deal isn't going to survive his failed presidency.

It's comical to watch leftist's heads explode over republicans telling Iran the truth. Funny though, when Nancy Pee-Lousy visited Assad in Syria..against the wishes of George W Bush and tried to make nice with the murderous bast@rd Assad, leftist loons were just fine with that! In the interim, Assad has killed about 150,000 of his own Syrian citizens.

posted March 14, 2015 02:48 PM            

Its hardly a leftist loon flap. Even fellow Republicans are appalled that a minority of the Senate would try to openly undermine an International negotiation (NOT a treaty with the US ) and demonstrate the total ignorance of their jurisdiction and willingness to back Israel over America like this. Are you familiar with the author of the linked piece? Hardly a leftist loon and hardly the only person on the right who thinks so

posted March 14, 2015 02:50 PM            

If it was done to Bush, treason and hang em high would be the order of the day, right?
Absolutely.

To me, it doesn`t matter who is POTUS, it is the gall of Cotton to try to further divide and disrespect America, her allies and the american people with blackmail threats .

Always hold ones enemies close to your vest ?

posted March 15, 2015 07:26 AM            

I just read the Logan Act was only upheld once in history.

Maybe it needs revised or repealed.

posted March 15, 2015 11:13 AM            

Its not the first time treachorous actors have tried to undermine the president. The Logan act was passed in 1799 I believe, because our had already happened.

posted March 15, 2015 02:58 PM            

But, it's exactly as I said. The 47 Senators have the right to weigh in on any deal a president is negotiating and, they did.

Now that they have, it's clear the deal with Iran is a bad deal for the US...a good deal for the terrorist nation of Iran and, an admission was forced from the American traitor...John Traitor Kerry that "THE DEAL" is non binding and unenforceable.

Which means Iran is given a clear path to nuclear weapons, can't be forced into inspections to find their hidden nuclear programs and this entire mess which is the brainchild of O'Bomber, Hillary and Traitor Kerry is so much hot air, smoke and mirrors and is a stall tactic by the terrorist nation of Iran to get sanctions lifted and give them time to enrich enough uranium for a nuclear device.

In spite of all the blither, blather, bloviation and bullshiiit by democrats that they oppose nuclear weapons for Iran....they're down with the plan which will make a nuclear Iran a certainty.

Tom Cotton: The Most Powerful Man in Washington
Erick Erickson
March 13, 2015

Tom Cotton (R-AR) is the junior senator from Arkansas. In fact, Cotton has only been in the Senate for two months. He spent one term in the House of Representatives before making the leap to the upper house. Prior to his stint in elected politics, Cotton was a soldier in the Iraq War. He is now the most powerful man in Washington.

Cotton rounded up 46 other Republican senators in Washington to sign a letter to Iran. That letter announced that no deal between President Obama and Iran would ever make it through the United States Senate. The constitution requires a two-thirds vote for any treaty to be ratified. An Iranian deal would not get a majority vote, let alone a two-thirds vote.

The outrage from Democrats was immediate. On twitter, the hashtag "47traitors" exploded. More than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding the 47 senators be arrested for treason. Chris Matthews, the Walter Winchel of MSNBC, yelled at his viewers accusing the senators of violating the Logan Act. The sound bite got picked up and parroted by talking heads who needed a point and had none of their own.

The Logan Act is a law enacted in 1799 by President John Adams. It prohibits citizens from engaging foreign powers in contravention of the United States. Not a single person has ever been convicted of violating the Logan Act. Only one person, in 1803, was ever indicted under the Logan Act. The government is exempt from the law, obviously, and the State Department determined in 1975 that Congress, as a branch of government, was exempt from the Logan Act.

The rhetoric of the left has been farcical. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy directly collaborated with the Soviet Union to undermine President Reagan's foreign policy. We only learned about that as a nation when the Soviet Union collapsed and old KGB archives were uncovered.

In 2002, Congressmen John Bonior and Jim McDermott flew to Iraq to stand shoulder to shoulder with Saddam Hussein against George W. Bush. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi went to Syria to stand with Bashar al-Assad against George W. Bush. But the most similar action to Tom Cotton's letter happened in 1984.

That year, then-Democratic Leader Jim Wright, who would go on to be Speaker of the House, penned a letter to communist leader Daniel Ortega. The letter, signed by multiple Democrats in the Congress, pledged Democratic opposition to Ronald Reagan's policies and sought to engage in separate diplomatic relations with Ortega than what the Reagan administration was attempting.

For Hillary Clinton to claim last week that Tom Cotton's letter was something unique in American history was as big a lie as her claiming she could not put two email accounts on one device. In fact, the Democrats know Tom Cotton's actions are legal. They just do not like his boldness in defiance of a president who increasingly views himself as a dictator.

Try as they might, the Democrats have not been able to completely undermine the idea of three separate but equal branches of government. Their spittle flew when Speaker Boehner invited the Israeli prime minister to speak to Congress. Though they claimed the invitation was some sort of breach of protocol, the Speaker also invited the Pope to speak, and the Democrats made no such claims.

What is really happening is the Democrats were attempting to allow Iran to build up a nuclear program without anyone noticing. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Sen. Tom Cotton shed light on the Democrats' plan. The Democrats were left scurrying about like roaches with the light turned on. They do not like it.

posted March 16, 2015 11:59 AM            

Meanwhile Cotton is defending his letter by warning us on the aggression of Iran.."already they control Tehran!" Shock, horror! And increasingly control other ME capitals like Baghdad..right. And the US controls DC. More shock and horror. Please explain how Iran, who has invade.d no one for 600 years, is controlling the whole region?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/16/1371237/-Cotton-has-no-regrets-on-Iran-letter-warns-that-they-already-control-Tehran?

posted March 17, 2015 08:42 AM            

No Treaty...by any name...including an executive order is enforceable without either the consent of the US Senate or consent of the next and future presidents to keep it in force.

The chances this crap sandwich will be ratified by the US Senate are about the same as New York City disappearing into a sink hole.