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Biden, who also serves as president of the Senate, Monday night blasted Senate Republicans in a long, angry statement for their letter to Iran's leaders, which he described as "beneath the dignity of an institution I revere."
Forty-seven Republicans on Sunday wrote directly to Tehran to suggest that any nuclear deal with the Obama administration would not be constitutionally binding because a future president or Congress could take steps to revoke it. Biden called the move an unprecedented affront "designed to undercut a sitting president."
"In thirty-six years in the United States Senate, I cannot recall another instance in which Senators wrote directly to advise another country -- much less a longtime foreign adversary -- that the President does not have the constitutional authority to reach a meaningful understanding with them. This letter sends a highly misleading signal to friend and foe alike that that our Commander-in-Chief cannot deliver on Americas commitments -- a message that is as false as it is dangerous," Biden said in a statement
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/09/joe-biden-iran-letter-republicans_n_6836146.html
Skittles
(153,169 posts)ENOUGH ALREADY
Cha
(297,395 posts)mahalo still one
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)This is an outrage and for once Dems need to say that loudly and often.
livetohike
(22,153 posts)How much more of this disrespect of President Obama will be enabled by silence? I wish Senators Byrd and Kennedy were still here. I can hear their eloquent rants on the floor in my head.
The time is way overdue to somehow stop this embarrassment.
Hekate
(90,740 posts)...of government and a desire to actually govern. Something which the current class of clowns cannot begin to grasp.
My gods how long will we have to put up with those idiots?
arely staircase
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(5,068 posts)still_one
(92,280 posts)talk