New York Times Editorial: Republican Idiocy on Iran
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/opinion/republican-idiocy-on-iran.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0After helping to ignite a firestorm over a possible nuclear agreement with Iran, Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, is now sort of acknowledging his error. “Maybe that wasn’t exactly the best way to do that,” he said on Fox News on Tuesday.
He was referring to the disgraceful and irresponsible letter that he and 46 Senate colleagues sent to Iran’s leaders this week that generated outrage from Democrats and even some conservatives.
The letter was an attempt to scare the Iranians from making a deal that would limit their nuclear program for at least a decade by issuing a warning that the next president could simply reverse any agreement. It was a blatant, dangerous effort to undercut the president on a grave national security issue by communicating directly with a foreign government.
Maybe Mr. McCain, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, should have thought about the consequences before he signed the letter, which was drafted by Tom Cotton, a Republican of Arkansas, a junior senator with no foreign policy credentials. Instead of trying to be leaders and statesmen, the Republicans in Congress seem to think their role is outside the American government, divorced from constitutional principles, tradition and the security interests of the American people.
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Until the NYT connects these dots, i.e. does it's job of reporting the facts of the history of Repubs sedition of exactly this kind, it is
still giving a wink wink to the Repubs....propaganda by omission. This shouldn't be a "public scolding" by the NYT. Their obligation is to tell the whole history and truth of Republicans deadly interferences in destroying sensitive presidential negotiations for their own political gain.
Nixon and Regan both escaped punishment because both parties & the MSM kept their political poison quiet i.e. essentially let these crimes against Americans evolve into RW legend (as the ultimate "dirty tricks"
. Even Tehran Tom/the Tehran 47's threat in the letter re: dealing with the "next" ...supposedly Repub administration ...is precisely out of the Nixon/Regan playbook
This letter and act of Repub direct defiance, of usurping and threatening our national negotiations and interest did not occur in a political or historical vacuum nor share any similarities with Jane Fonda or Nancy Pelosi (the Msm sanctioned false equivalencies from the RW) These 47 senators defined themselves as Republicans and the next leaders of the USA just as NIxon and Regan did.
I guess the only slightly surprising thing is that the 47 wrote this letter publicly, whereas Nixon/Kissinger and Regan did their mutinous
"diplomacy" in secret. That actually says something about how openly unabashed the Repubs have become in the last 50 years with their own repugnant, antidemocracy politics
The well recocognized expert on Nixon/ Regan/ recent Repub history of sedition is Robert Parry. Why is he not invited on any MSM show giving essential historical perspective for the Tehran ,and why no consultation of Parry by the NYT or any newspaper?
I hope, at least, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow. Bill Maher( tho hardly the MSM) book Robert Parry...set an accurate historical framework for the Tehran 47.
They did create ISIS though.
All good 
results.
The warmonger/war profiteers want what they want and Obama is in the way.
the idiots who voted these 47 assholes in will undoubtedly vote them in again ... 
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So who is really to blame here 
