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Republicans Admit: That Iran Letter Was a Dumb Idea
A day after releasing a letter that potentially threatens the administrations 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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WHO Looks Foolish Now? (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2015
OP
The Corporate Media needs to feel some heat from the Social Media. Otherwise...Iraq all over again.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#2
I must have missed something. Why does the World Health Organization look foolish now?
WillowTree
Mar 2015
#4
omfg, the "sorry if anybody was offended, it was a bad joke" defense AND blaming Obama
magical thyme
Mar 2015
#6
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)1. Great cartoon
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. The Corporate Media needs to feel some heat from the Social Media. Otherwise...Iraq all over again.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)3. Oh, lookie! Another NON-apology and doubling down
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)4. I must have missed something. Why does the World Health Organization look foolish now?
Oh.......wait a minute.......I get it now.
Sorry.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)5. "Cheeky"
like my ass.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)6. omfg, the "sorry if anybody was offended, it was a bad joke" defense AND blaming Obama
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"
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%...