Breaking: Cotton Letter Was Never Sent Anywhere, Especially Not To Iran (Press Lied)

You would think these people would learn from history. There are just some things you don't do no matter how wrong headed you believe your leadership is.

 

This just goes to show how clueless the Obama supporters are. I asked them in a separate thread to explain to me what Obama was hoping to get out of the negotiations and no one could explain it.....hahahaha!

But this part of the OP's article is just sweet!:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...nt-anywhere-especially-not-iran-deroy-murdock


BWAHAHAHAHA! Treason for posting an open letter online! Hahahaha!

 

Which journalists said it was "sent"? Lets see if they hold themselves to the same bar as they did a news entertainer recently.

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Yes and the very same people think letting Americans die in Benghazi for votes is perfectly acceptable. You cant make this stuff up. They walk among us.

 

Yeah because we know everything you read on the Internets is true don't we....LOL!

 

They did the smartest thing they could to let everyone know that Obama is acting in a way that is detrimental to this nation and to our allies. If posting something online is now the same as sending it to a recipient, that's going to get a lot of folks in hot water - including Obama.

With Obama's horrible track record on foreign policy, there is no trust left that the President is doing the right thing. He simply isn't smart enough. Congress is elected by the people.

By the way, enough democrats are getting on board now that Congress will be able to shut Obama down - he'll veto - but they'll override. We have such protections in place to protect us from rogue Presidents.

Like Obama.

 

Dear Ayatollahs,

Do not believe what Barry tells you. He is a liar.

XXX OOO

The Internetz

 

that a clear public statement of constitutional realities is treasonous?

 

Earliest reports of this.. The ones screaming "Treason"..

 

republicans are in full spin mode now.....

 

I don't know how true that is, but it certainly would not shock me. After all Republicans are well known for taking an initial stand on an issue based on principle, then back tracking In an attempt to gain favor with the media. The first sign of minimal or even idiotic and ridiculous resistance and they cave.

I would have much more respect for them if they took a a stand on an issue then defended their position instead of always caving in. Instead they want to be thought of as " bipartisan" and "evolving".

 

A giant centrifuge.

You see...those idiot juvenile Senators were playing in a sandbox and were just doodling in the sand when unbeknownst to them an Iranian snapped a photo of their sand scribbles and forwarded it to Iranian leaders.

 

Yeah, the Obama supporters really embarrassed themselves on this one. Screaming treason for an open letter on the internet. Anyone can choose to read or not read it. Only the libs would get all hyper with more faux outrage.

 

This is delicious. The failed attempt to embarrass the President backfired seriously and so now they saying it didn't really happen. The GOP is laughable.

 

wow the pathetic attempt by the supporters of traitors to pretend this didn't happen are laughable. Like the child who says it wasn't me....(*)(*)(*)(*)ing traitors have failed they thought they would have the people behind them. It must truly suck to have to keep trying to explain away the stupidity of the right.

 

LOL! It looks like no one is paying attention to the "traitor" accusations. No one has been put in cuffs and hauled off yet so the "traitor" talk is nothing but noise. It reminds me of how libs get all frothy at the mouth when they discuss Rush or Palin. That is always over nothing as well.

 

Oh my stars and garters! Actually I am not the least bit surprised about this stunt by the Obama administration, which the Left-tilted Mainstream Media ran up the flagpole and saluted with their middle fingers . . . but never vetted. They just assumed that Obama and company would NEVER LIE TO THEM. Heh . . . silly journalists. Now that's gonna leave a mark so far as their ethics are concerned; that is, if the leftwing media and the Obama administration actually had anything approaching the mythological standard called 'professional ethics'.

Okaaaaaaaaaaaay . . . so now what? Well obviously the Obama administration beginning with Barack Obama and John Kerry issue every one of those 46 senators a public apology -- oh and their lapdogs in the Mainstream Media follow suit as well, correct? Bwhahahahahahaha! Sorry; just a bit of outrageous humor. So no apology from anyone. That's a given.

So it's just another case of hyper-political partisanship on the part of leftwingers but -- and this is actually the important bit, all kidding aside -- it is one in which both the president of the United States of America and the Secretary of State accused U.S. senators of doing something absolutely horrendous, of directly interfering with the nuclear negotiations process and of sending the letter to the Iranian government . . . neither of which happened; and now the entire world is going to know that either Obama and Kerry are incompetent or a pair of the world's most partisan political slags. Nice!

How low can the Left go? I wondered that very thing back in 2008. What's interesting is that every time I figure that Obama and company cannot possibly sink lower in regards to ethical standards or demonstrate a worse degree of incompetence they ALWAYS find a way of sinking to the next lower level. You have to sort of admire that. I mean it's as if that's their primary set of goals.

 

You mean kind of like how anyone can read anything that is posted to the public anywhere and any time no matter what it is? So the Left is actually going to be telling senators that they can not open their mouths, write anything down, nor post anything to their own private web site because it might give a leftwinger somewhere a hissey fit? Fortunately there is such a thing called Freedom of Speech. It's in the U.S. Constitution. I'm surprised that Obama, for one, has never heard of it . . . considering that he spends most of his time urinating all over it . . . in public no less.

 

Oh dear Lord! Now John Kerry is going to accuse you of derailing U.S. foreign policy. Sweet!

 

How do you know it was not sent anywhere as well as posted on line? It sure looks like it was intended specifically for Iran and from the US Senate!

http://www.cotton.senate.gov/sites/default/files/150309 Cotton Open Letter to Iranian Leaders.pdf

 

And their defense is about carping about the word 'sent' in media coverage. I guess my highest compliment is that this reminds of Bill Clinton parsing the definition of 'sexual relations' and thinking it would work. It does not pass the giggle test, but it sure shows desperation.

 

Oh no! This is posted online too: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a2_2_2-3.html

Whatever shall we do, the University of Chicago is attempting to undermine Obama's attempt at some very serious negotiations!

 

You're not getting the over all picture.

 

An article on Breitbart.com points out that a Senator has intervened in negotiations with Tehran in the recent past. In 2008, then Senator Obama sent a secret emissary to Tehran, asking them to wait to negotiate with him rather than Bush.

 

Really meaningless.

No difference between the written post card and standing in the well of the Senate Chamber in an open session and saying: "I want to remind everyone that the Constitution requires....... "

From the beginning here, other than pizzing off President Stompy Feet, this utterance is legal, is not treason, does not constitute a crime and is no more that opinion protected by the Constitution in many ways. Firstly, congresscritters speaking from their position as member are immune

...for any Speech or Debate in either House, [Senators and Representatives] shall not be questioned in any other Place.
Article I, Section 6, Clause 1

The right of legislators to speak their minds with impunity while engaged in legislative work was acknowledged by the British Bill of Rights of 1689, written into the Articles of Confederation, and, after the Revolution, guaranteed by state constitutions as well as by the Speech and Debate Clause. James Wilson, who was one of the principal architects of the Constitution, explained the purpose of the clause as follows:

In order to enable and encourage a representative of the publick to discharge his publick trust with firmness and success, it is indispensably necessary, that he should enjoy the fullest liberty of speech, and that he should be protected from the resentment of every one, however powerful, to whom the exercise of that liberty may occasion offence. Lecture on Law (1791).


Secondly, all citizens are free to express their thoughts, especially political thoughts.

Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press....
Amendment I

Cheers
Labour

 

This is such a pathetic attempt at spin that the editors of National Review ought to be embarrassed.

Of course, it's a tacit admission that the whole gambit was reckless and irresponsible, which is why the National Review is staging this weak attempt to walk it back.