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Kerry blows up in Senate hearing and insists 'This is not a speech!' as he castigates GOP
The Daily Mail ^ | 3-11-15 | David Martosko

Posted on 03/11/2015 2:19:33 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

Secretary of State John Kerry spent five minutes of a Senate hearing excoriating a group of 47 Republicans who sent a highly unusual letter to the government of Iran warning that Congress could modify the terms of any nuclear deal it negotiates with the White House.

'This letter raises questions of judgment and policy,' he insisted, before Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker cut him off and scolded him for delivering 'a well-written speech.'

'It's not a speech! This is not a speech!' Kerry erupted. 'This is a statement about the impact of this irresponsible letter. The letter does not have legal authority, and I think you have to ask what people are trying to accomplish.'

Kerry later staked out a position that lawmakers have no standing to change any nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Iran because it won't be 'legally binding' in the first place.

'We've been clear from the beginning: We're not negotiating a, quote, "legally binding" plan,' Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

'We're negotiating a plan that will have in it the capacity for enforcement. We don't even have diplomatic relations with Iran right now.'

He blamed Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton and 46 other GOP senators for signing a letter on Monday that 'ignores more than two centuries of precedent in the conduct of American foreign policy.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congressiranletter; gop; hanoijohn; iran; irantalks; johnkerry; kerry; ketchup; loser; lurch; nukes; secstate; secstatekerry; tehranjohn; traitor; vietnam
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To: hal ogen

Why isn’t this rich incompetent, the traitor kerry, home with his alcoholic wife drinking heavily?
It’s not 5 pm yet...


41 posted on 03/11/2015 2:51:15 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Not now, Not ever!

He should have been shot back in the Vietnam era right after hanoi jane.


42 posted on 03/11/2015 2:51:26 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: jtal

Obama also met with al-Maliki before his inauguration while Bush was finalizing the SOFA with Iraq, at which time Obama reminded them that Bush wasn’t going to be in charge in a few months. But THAT wasn’t against precedence??!!?


43 posted on 03/11/2015 2:52:48 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

John Kerry is pretending to be John Kerry, because he doesn’t know any better. Someone needs to give him a part he is better suited for, like a urinal cake.


44 posted on 03/11/2015 2:54:30 PM PDT by pallis
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To: I want the USA back

That’s too bad. Maybe the White Hut should stop going around congress.


45 posted on 03/11/2015 2:56:15 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: VTenigma
At the 38 Second mark He needs to relax. Maybe play some harpsichord.... He looks to be a fine player.
46 posted on 03/11/2015 2:58:15 PM PDT by BigEdLB (We're experienceing the rule of a Roman Emperor, Barack I)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This Iran deal must be a real loser for him to snap like this. The Surrender Monkey.


47 posted on 03/11/2015 3:00:20 PM PDT by McGruff (Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
John F. Kerry violates Logan act in the 1980's: (that's a commie Sandinista leader - Ortega). And lets not forget his stint as a negotiator with the Viet Cong in the 1970s.
48 posted on 03/11/2015 3:02:55 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
why we are spending time and money negoiating a plan which is not legally binding?

Because if we wish hard enough, they will abide by it anyway.

49 posted on 03/11/2015 3:05:49 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

50 posted on 03/11/2015 3:06:06 PM PDT by Gritty (Between Iran and ISIS, the enemy of my enemy is ... my enemy! - Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: TexasCajun

Unfortunately rainbow unicorn land = the land without respect for laws or Constitutional governance.


51 posted on 03/11/2015 3:10:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: LostInBayport

It Lurched


52 posted on 03/11/2015 3:10:22 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

53 posted on 03/11/2015 3:11:19 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Very simple. Iran is cleaning up the mess that Obama and the Progresso’s caused in Iraq. The horrible absolute catastrophe called ISIS. So in exchange for that, Iran is going to be given time to develop its nuclear capability. So it is not meant to be a legal agreement. Just a cover smoke screen for Iran.


54 posted on 03/11/2015 3:12:40 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Not now, Not ever!
...to bad, he should have been jailed back in the Vietnam era.

kerry should be hanging, along side of hanoi jane, in front of The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

FMCDH(BITS)

55 posted on 03/11/2015 3:22:38 PM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

His speech was similar to his prior testimony to Congress:

“They told stories that at times Republican Senators had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.”


56 posted on 03/11/2015 3:24:21 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: afraidfortherepublic

John Boy just needs his daily peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich from his “man-servant”.


57 posted on 03/11/2015 3:35:55 PM PDT by Mark (Obama Care is now DEMOCRAT CARE)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Is this the same guy that tried to usurp the Vietnam peace talks?


58 posted on 03/11/2015 3:35:57 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: afraidfortherepublic
'We've been clear from the beginning: We're not negotiating a, quote, "legally binding" plan,' Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Then why is the first anyone has heard this? It sounds like you're admitting that 0bama was trying to sucker the Iranians all along.

59 posted on 03/11/2015 3:49:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

It’s 5 O’clock somewhere...


60 posted on 03/11/2015 3:51:41 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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