Posted on 07/26/2016 3:49:21 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Earlier this week, 47 Republican senators published an open letter informing the leaders of Iran that any nuclear deal with the United States that failed to be approved by the Senate would likely expire in 2017, once President Barack Obama’s term ended. You can read the full letter here.
The letter enraged progressives, who immediately began accusing the senators of treason for having the audacity to publish basic constitutional facts about how treaties work. Here is but a small sampling of the response from the outrage brigade:
Has anyone ever seen anything like that letter from Senate Repubs to Iran? How is that not treason? I'm really asking. — Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) March 10, 2015
Did 47 Republican Senators just commit treason with Iran letter? (by @writerknowles) http://t.co/sBj397WWk3 — Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) March 9, 2015
To Cotton-sticking Senate GOP: If Ds had done under a Republican POTUS what you did today, you would have been the first to cry "treason!" — David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 9, 2015
For many liberals this morning, the word treason is defined as not giving Obama his way — John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 10, 2015
If these progressives want to know what actual treason looks like, they should consult liberal lion Ted Kennedy, who not only allegedly sent secret messages to the Soviets in the midst of the cold war, he also begged them to intervene in a U.S. presidential election in order to unseat President Ronald Reagan. That’s no exaggeration.
According to Soviet documents unearthed in the early 1990’s, Kennedy literally asked the Soviets, avowed enemies of the U.S., to intervene on behalf of the Democratic party in the 1984 elections. Kennedy’s communist communique was so secret that it was not discovered until 1991, eight years after Kennedy had initiated his Soviet gambit:
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Laz, the Arlington cemetery staff has the Swimmer’s grave under 24/7 guard, not to protect it from us nasty rightwingers, but from all the homeless who come to inhale the Scotch fumes which rise from it to this day.
Adlai Stevenson 1956
Correct me if I’m wrong. In most countries, what Ted Kennedy did would be called “Treason.”
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