Our Dumb Sen. Ron Johnson, R, WI says he regrets anti-Obama letter was addressed to Iranian leaders

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The only thing ron regrets is the backlash.


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Sen. Ron Johnson says he regrets that a letter he signed on nuclear talks was sent to Iran.

33 minutes ago • By Steven Verburg | Wisconsin State Journal
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Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has joined a few other Republican senators who say they have had second thoughts about signing an open letter to Iran’s leaders warning them that they can’t count on any nuclear arms control deal they reach with President Barack Obama’s administration, Bloomberg News reported Friday.

Amid criticism from U.S. allies, Johnson said he stood by the letter’s content, but it probably should have been written as an open letter to Obama or the American people.

“I suppose the only regret is who it’s addressed to,” Johnson said at a breakfast in Washington, calling it a “tactical error.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top leader, said in a statement on his website that the letter signed by 47 Republican senators was “a sign of a decline in political ethics and the destruction of the American establishment from within,” The New York Times reported...............

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Also: Very good segment.


MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Highlights Media Backlash To GOP Senators' Letter To Iran
Video ››› March 12, 2015 12:08 AM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF

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hometownguy - 1 hour ago
Sen. Johnson is having second thoughts? Well, that would be two times as many as he's had since being elected. He is nothing but a tea party lemming. Just do what the others do; individual thinking is frowned upon.

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2. That man is an idiot.

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3. If only there was a person to run against him

who was brilliant, ethical and has great experience in foreign affairs.

Oh wait. We do!

Run Russ!!!!

[world wide wally]

4. I regret that someone like him could be elected to office in what used to be a pretty good country

before people like him came along