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applegrove

(118,691 posts)
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 10:20 PM Mar 2015

Republicans Admit: That Iran Letter Was a Dumb Idea

Republicans Admit: That Iran Letter Was a Dumb Idea

Tim Mak at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/10/republicans-admit-that-iran-letter-was-a-dumb-idea.html

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But even among Republicans whose offices have signed the letter, there is some trepidation that the Iran letter injects partisanship into the Iran negotiations, shifting the narrative from the content of the deal to whether Republicans are unfairly trying to undercut the president.

“Before the letter, the national conversation was about Netanyahu’s speech and how Obama’s negotiations with Iran are leading to a terrible deal that could ultimately harm U.S. national security. Now, the Obama administration and its Capitol Hill partisans are cynically trying to push the conversation away from policy, and towards a deeply political pie fight over presidential and congressional prerogatives,” said a Senate Republican aide whose boss signed the letter.

However, while some on the Republican side are now rethinking the wisdom of sending a letter, none of the 47 Republican signatories are recanting their support for it or signaling an intent to do so.


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TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
1. Their donors told them to do it--they can't take it back now.
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 10:25 PM
Mar 2015

This product was purchased and paid for, if you know what I mean.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. When Adelson's wife dropped her purse on to the Floor, from the Senate public viewing gallery...it was no accident.
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 10:27 PM
Mar 2015
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
10. I just wonder how much longer Rush Vader and Adelson Palpatine plan on running the GOP?
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 11:09 PM
Mar 2015

The Empire has to eventually fall.

Cha

(297,318 posts)
4. Not too bright are they? " there is some trepidation that the Iran letter injects partisanship into
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 10:31 PM
Mar 2015
the Iran negotiations.."

mahalo apple~
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