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Posted on 03/09/2015 11:58:50 AM PDT by Dave346
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid angrily denounced a Republican-led effort to circumvent President Barack Obama’s pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, calling it “hard slap in the face” of the United States.
As Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the engineer of a letter that panned Obama’s effort as merely an “executive agreement,” watched from the presiding officer’s chair on Monday afternoon, Reid called the end-around by 47 Republicans a “juvenile” attack and an attempt to undermine Obama “purely out of spite.”
“The judgment of my Republican colleagues seems to be clouded by their abhorrence of President Obama. The Republican senators sent a letter to the Iranian leadership aimed at sabotaging these negotiations,” Reid said. “It’s unprecedented for one political party to directly intervene in an international negotiation with the sole goal of embarrassing the president.”
On Monday morning, Cotton and dozens of his GOP colleagues sent a letter to the Iranian leadership, urging Tehran to regard any deal without congressional approval as an executive agreement that could be undone by a future president with the “stroke of a pen.” But while Republicans viewed the letter as a reminder to Iran of Congress’ responsibilities, Democrats said the move could eventually lead to another conflict in the Middle East if it causes nuclear talks to fall apart.
“I would describe this letter as a continuation of a partisan strategy to undermine the president’s ability to conduct foreign policy and advance our national security interests around the globe,’’ White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
After Reid’s speech, he and his top deputy Dick Durbin of Illinois held a colloquy in front of Cotton. Durbin asked Reid if Cotton and his colleagues realized that one alternative to the ongoing nuclear talks “could be another war in the Middle East.”
“Everyone should acknowledge that if we can work something out with Iran so they don’t get nuclear weapons, we’ve got to try to do that,” Reid responded. Obama “has said there’s less than a 50 percent chance he can get it done. But shouldn’t we let him try?”
The partisan fireworks over the GOP letter came just as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) delayed a vote on a bill that would allow Congress to reject an agreement with Iran from the Senate calendar.
Speaking of slaps in the face, has Dingy Harry been back on that exercise bike that kicked his ass a while back
I guess Harry would know something about being slapped in the face by his “exercise equipment”. Right, Harry.
Harry knows what “hard slaps to the face” feel like.
We can only hope the letter served as a hard slap in the face of a president out of control.
If anybody knows about a juvenile attack its that "JV" squad on the left side of the aisle!
Its fun to watch the dems, they are so use to using the GOP like a door mat they are quite surprised when the door mat trips them.
Did not observe that
the American People in the last election
chose to have the treasonous, still-EXEMPT,
enabling, cowardly, lying 114th Congress
dicker with the Enemy mullahs,
begging for help to overcome its meekness and
betrayal of their constituents.
Well, Reid can cry all he wants ... LOL ...
Put some ice on it Dingy!
Easier to deal with tyrants abroad.
We can only hope the letter served as a hard slap in the face of a president out of control.
We can hope, but it won’t. Obama is simply becoming more obstinate and dedicated.
Glad you noticed,Harry.
Nice to see a leader emerge from among the crop of newly elected and conservative side of the scale who is ready to rumble.
That is what they were elected to do. Not sure there is time to save ourselves, but someone should stand up for this country, come hell or recovery.
LOL! True enough.
Speaking of slaps in the face, has Dingy Harry been back on that exercise bike that kicked his ass a while back
He-he.
“Reid said. “It’s unprecedented for one political party to directly intervene in an international negotiation with the sole goal of embarrassing the president.””
C’Mon Harry! I know that you’re old enough to remember Speaker Jim Wright playing footsie with the Sandanistas during the Reagan-Bush 1st years.
some people need more than slaps in the face, they need good swift kicks in the ass...
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