The Alinskyite response to a letter to Iran setting out the facts

Mollie Hemingway:

This week, a group of Republican senators led by Tom Cotton of Arkansas (pictured above, with a kitten, in Iraq) issued a very brief open letter to the leaders of Iran explaining the differences between mere executive agreements and international treaties ratified by the Senate. It’s a fairly basic letter that includes reminders about the Constitutional system under which we operate. I couldn’t begin to speculate why, but the media lost their collective minds over this letter. Along with other Democrats and progressive activists. You can read the breathless, outraged, totally-over-the-top headlines if you’d like to see this melt-down in action.

Now, that’s fine. That’s their business. To be completely honest, and not that you care, I’m not the biggest fan of such letters myself. I mean, they’re not as bad as Nancy Pelosi going to Syria to undermine Bush’s foreign policy, Jimmy Carter helping North Korea get nuclear weapons, Ted Kennedy secretly asking the Soviets to interfere in the 1984 election or any of the many other interjections we’ve seen, but I think it’s generally a good idea to yield to the president on foreign negotiations, even if it’s a really bad president who couldn’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag if the stakes involved, oh I don’t know, going ahead with Iran as a nuclear power.

But let’s look a little deeper at just one part of this media campaign against Republican senators. It comes from Tim Mak of the Daily Beast and it looks like he’s got an explosive story:

Whoa. Check that out. Republicans now “admit” that the letter was “a dumb idea”! That’s huge. And “some Republicans who signed on” are now “realizing” it was a bad call? I can’t wait to read this story — taglined “HINDSIGHT” for extra flair — can you?

What are their names? Which of the senators are changing their minds and “admitting” and “realizing” that the media were right after all? Who are they?

Oh dear. That’s … weird. Very weird.

Hunh. Tim Mak’s story doesn’t even claim a single senator changed his mind. Not even close. Yikes.

Um. So it turns out that the only people quoted in the story against the letter are people who always opposed the letter....
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The phony outrage that the media is going along with is an attempt to distract from the really bad deal Obama is attempting to get.   The event highlights Obama's incompetence as a negotiator.  It is why he is not willing to submit the treaty for approval by the Senate be cause he is unwilling to deal with Congress but is willing to give away the store to people who are at war with the US and have been for over 30 years.  He is not even demanding that they stop making war against the US to get a deal that allows them to have a bomb in 10 years.  No wonder they would rather demagogue the letter and ignore their own hypocrisy.