of morons, or "representatives" who were too afraid to vote intelligently.

Gingrich and his posse didn't come close to this imbecility. I think there were still a few smart republicans hanging around at that time. Now there may only be 7 in the Senate and 0 in the House.

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or its seriousness.

he came. Embarrassing that he got so many more senior Senators to sign off on his treasonous stupidity.

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SHIT!!!!!!

That's pretty much my email to my two dufus senators.

Seems to me the most destructive and disturbing assertion in this letter, is that these morons float the notion that any deal we make internationally can be undone easily and with malice anytime we feel like it. That the USA is never to be trusted in any negotiations, because we always reserve the right to yank the rug.

Why should anyone negotiate anything with us at all if this is how The Republican Party views the process?
When the next Republican President comes into office, he can simply sweep aside all previous international treaties and agreements on a whim... just because... I don't know... the Black Guy?... The Woman?... It's Tuesday?
WTF to the X power?

THIS IS SO DANGEROUS! THEY MUST BE CENSURED AND REMOVED FROM OFFICE RIGHT NOW!
They have broken their oath of office.

How right you are.
Welcome to DU!

By a two-thirds vote of the Senate. Since they make up 47 percent of the Senate, good luck with that.

Can they still be US Senators in prison?

Just disqualify all 47 of the Senators by revoking their TS/SsC priveleges

And then because they do require TS/SC clearances to do Senate business, none of them are qualified.

Democratic Party, by default will be the majority and has the 2/3 to remove Republicans with only 6 Republicans that didn't sign the Logan Act violation.

Ethics Committee should have a field day since all the Republicans in the Committee are DQ'ed.

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And their masters demand stupid political stunts.

We spend a lot of money on intelligence, trying to understand what goes on in other countries so that we can encourage an environment of peace and understanding in the world. I know a lot of DUers will laugh at that statement because we seem to do nothing with our intelligence, our knowledge about other countries and their leaders except fight wars.

But if you read the books, Paris, 1919, Six Months that Changed the World, and Ike's Spies you will understand the importance of our intelligence programs. We really have to know what goes on in other countries. We don't always use our information well. We don't always use it to promote peace. But we have to have it, because if we don't know what is going on in the world, we make even worse mistakes than we are making now.

Of course, how much of what we know we need to keep so secret is an entirely different question.

But --

The problem now for us is that the folks that Republican voters have sent to Congress are UTTERLY ignorant of the world outside their communities for the most part. And those Republicans who do know something have very little empathy and understanding of people who are in any way different from themselves. The Republicans now in Congress are what used to be called "provincial" in their outlook on the world. That's a fancy word for "ignorant," so ignorant they don't even want to know about the world because they think they already know everything there is to know because, after all, they know what the Bible says and they know their home town or home state. What more could they possibly know?

So now they are really messing up. I just hope that the people they represent wake up to the reality that they are messing up. The letter to Iran was, I'm sure, a joke to the rest of the world. Just a joke. What a sorry bunch we have in Congress now. They need to get out of Podunk, Texas and see the world -- but not on a cruise ship -- rather with a backpack and a tent.

"Do you REALLY want the Republican Party to take care of national security?"

to any classified information, they should be taken off any committees dealing with national security and foreign relations and they should be censured. Every damn one of them.

There have been a few stellar representatives from the Old Dominion state and Kaine is one. I wish we could have both Jim Webb and Kaine representing that state where I used to live.

Yes Kaine is being mature to point out that trying to interfere in the actual negotiations is incredibly "irresponsible" of Republicans, but he has given us ample reason to suspect that he will try to kill a reasonable deal if and when one is announced