McCain admits open letter to Iran that he signed 'maybe' wasn't the greatest idea ever
Source: DAILY KOS
John McCain was one of the 47 Republican senators who signed onto the open letter to Iran. But he doesn't seem so sure anymore that it was an effective strategy. The letter, McCain said on Fox News, was just intended to "tell the Iranians that whatever deal they make, the Congress of the United States will play a role," but "Maybe that wasnt the best way."
Gosh, maybe not. But why would almost all of the Republicans in the Senate do such a thing?
Its also symptomatic between the total lack of trust that exists now between we Republicans and the president, he said.
This has established a poisoned environment here which sometimes causes us to react maybe in not the most effective fashion.
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)How would HE have felt if (God forbid) he won in 2008 and the Democratic Congress did such a thing to HIM??? He would've probably had them arrested...
olegramps
(8,200 posts)The Republicans have been the fascist voice of hatred from the day Obama was elected. He was a lousy pilot, anything but a war hero and married a drug addict that bought him a office in congress after dumping his crippled wife. Typical of today's Republican.
MADem
(135,425 posts)a ROTC grad...he went to the Academy, and though he graduated near the bottom of the class, those "rules and regs" are drilled into those guys seven days a week. He had years to think about who suffers when you get into a "continuation of diplomacy by other means" while he was in residence at the Hanoi Hilton. He knows what treason is.
If he were an ordinary, thinking human being, given his life story and circumstances, he should be on TEAM PLOWSHARES and not TEAM SWORDS.
He should be completely ASHAMED of himself!!!!
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)underpants
(182,879 posts)He may want to run again and if they turn on him (given the truly zany elements in Arizona) he could lose. Plus he doesn't need the grief.
Their media runs that operation. Cotton feed the beast what it wanted and made his name national in doing so.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)niyad
(113,556 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)Not the best decision maker!
niyad
(113,556 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)Gawd, for one of the "sane ones" he sure is an idiot.
You do this (as do your idiotic colleagues) Every-fkg-time.
You say something stupid about something stupid you're about to do with your teabaggin' idiot colleagues, then your constituency and others call you up and tell you NO...you do it anyway..then try and walk it back....
fu john. No more.
elleng
(131,107 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)He's also a supreme opportunist who tries to have everything both ways. Anyone who believes anything he says about anything needs a reality check badly.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)calimary
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And ted cruz is on there, too, so we can go ahead with "TRAITOR ted" too! As far as rand paul, well, I keep getting stuck on "Brillo-head" for some reason...
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)he would have appreciated crap like this going on between the US congress and his captors.
He, of all people, should know better. He has clearly lost his mind.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)One more demonstration of McShame's high quality decision-making.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)between the two parties. What dismays me is that they think that compromise is the answer. Negotiating with Republicans is like telling someone who has lifted your wallet that they can keep the money if you can get the wallet back.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)The Russian negotiator said give me your coat, ring and watch. Our negotiator refused saying these are mine. Then the Russian said well just give me the watch and ring and when he again refused the Russian said see you can't negotiate with these capitalists.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)This man selected Sarah "Word Salad" Palin as his VP candidate. He doesn't seem able to think things through.
Botany
(70,582 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)lark
(23,156 posts)the Repugs. They immediately came out and said making him a one term president and thwarting everything he wanted was their main goals in life. They also don't think that the letter further poisoned things? What idiots.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)John McBomb Iran is trying to blame Obama for the letter.
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)through well enough BEFORE you do them?
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)WAH "That mean Obama made us do it!"
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)shenanigans!
avebury
(10,952 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)He was the one, after all, who wanted to "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran..."
And that reduces the amount of blood available for his brain, such as it is.
RussBLib
(9,035 posts)incompetence and arrogance, thy name is GOP
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)along with 5 other nations. Is using a nuke a real option, between the 2 countries. At just under 1200 miles apart its less that it is to drive from NY to Miami. Somebody needs to get out an atlas, because eveyone would be affected.
erronis
(15,328 posts)A bit cranky are we?
A bit unclear of what we're looking at, responding to, signing?
Welcome to the Old Fart's wing of dithering idjuts, John. Let's just hope that you slip further into senility and inutility without understanding all the damage you do.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)They poison the well and then cry foul.
Grow the fuck up, McCain.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)n/t
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)but Obama is not who is at fault.
Hey John maybe if you and all your colleagues hadn't ignored all his attempts to cooperate and extend olive branches things would be different but no. Instead you all treat him horribly not just because you disagree on policy but because he's black, then you all have the gall to blame him for the incivility now? Your arrogance astounds and you've more than earned the cold shoulder your getting now. You would have gotten it a lot sooner from me but the President obviously has more patience than I do.
JEB
(4,748 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)This is why they mess things up when they are given the reinsand the middle-class (what's left of it) is left to clean up their messes.
I've always had hopes that elected officials have some intelligence and morals. But the current GOP wing has very little of boththey seem to think the whole system is a joke. Throw them ALL out on the asses!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)the voters knew better
.....
rot in your own sewage, McFail
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Its also symptomatic between the total lack of trust that exists now between we Republicans and the president, he said.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Dementia hits a lot of us in our old age.
ananda
(28,876 posts)... for not letting us rule the country the way we want to.
truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)
victim of my own hateful thinking", in other words.
Stupid yes, but at heart its structure is that of the classic abuser: It's not my fault. You made me hit you.
That is the RW mind set: Liberals, Obama, women, Blacks, gaysthey make me abuse them.
hue
(4,949 posts)Senator John McCain, whom you may remember from that one time he nearly became the president of the United States, has a less-than-satisfactory explanation for why he signed Senator Tom Cotton's open letter to Iranian leaders.
McCain told Politico that:
"I saw the letter, I saw that it looked reasonable to me and I signed it, thats all. I sign lots of letters."
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)lobodons
(1,290 posts)NOW? Lack of trust NOW?? Jesus, it was you, the F'n Republicans that held a Treason Dinner the very night of Obama's 1st inaugural to strategize how to bring Obama down. Not what can WE do to help America (which by the way was at a historic economic downturn), but how to take down Obama which indirectly means the United States.
You were treason then and are treason now.
FSogol
(45,526 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)You've disgraced your country and your office. You're a fucking embarrassment.
BumRushDaShow
(129,457 posts)question everything
(47,535 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,457 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Just think where we would be if he and half governor had won the election. If thats not scary I don't know what would be.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)He puts the truth in your faces and won't let you get away with the outright LIES and distortions that YOUR PARTY poisons the public with. And he does it with style and grace.
What you accuse our President of, YOU are guilty of!
But of course, it is said on Faux so it must be "true" right?
Good grief. You look like idiots, you cannot govern, you are immature losers who won your elections primarily through lying, cheating and being bought by billionaires.
I don't say this lightly - they truly appear to be ignorant, reptilian-brained political whores who could care a sh*t less about America.
rant over.
annette
i live in Florida. Beautiful weather but GOP infested
jillan
(39,451 posts)Gee, who'd a thunk a guy like this would make a mistake, after he chose psycho Sarah Palin as his running mate.
reflection
(6,286 posts)I am laughing like a maniac at this.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Agony
(2,605 posts)mulsh
(2,959 posts)n/t
question everything
(47,535 posts)Thank the voters we will never have to face this type of "maybe."
treestar
(82,383 posts)Like picking his running mate when he ran for POTUS.