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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 08:43 AM Mar 2015

WHO Looks Foolish Now?



Republicans Admit: That Iran Letter Was a Dumb Idea
A day after releasing a letter that potentially threatens the administration’s negotiations with Iran,
some signers have second thoughts.

This comment from a "top GOP Senate aide" is somewhere between stupid and sociopathic:



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

(5,325 posts)
4. I must have missed something. Why does the World Health Organization look foolish now?
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 10:33 AM
Mar 2015

Oh.......wait a minute.......I get it now.

Sorry.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
6. omfg, the "sorry if anybody was offended, it was a bad joke" defense AND blaming Obama
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 11:35 AM
Mar 2015

for pushing "the conversation away from policy" and for making it a "deeply political pie fight"

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.

 

Sheepshank

(12,504 posts)
7. "thanks Obama"
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 11:40 AM
Mar 2015

such losers. And the more often they do it, the more it's finally sinking in to some of their own constituency.

Of course there will always be that idiotic, non-sensical, hatred-that-colors-all-else 30%...

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