Obama hatred takes center stage in deal with Iran

This week in politics didn’t start off very well, and it’s been going downhill ever since. Instead of pats on the back and long-winded toasts to U.S. diplomats for successfully concluding nuclear talks with Iran with better-than-expected concessions from that country, we are treated to the wailing and braying of conservatives who are comparing Obama to Neville Chamberlain (He's also often compared to Hitler, so please make up your minds, haters).

The comparison is wrong on several counts, but Chamberlain’s concessions to Hitler are considered to be the first step in Hitler’s march to war with Europe. So are conservatives worrying that this agreement will eventually lead to war? That would be rich because they have proposed no other alternative to diplomacy except bombing Iran, an act of aggression that would probably lead to war.

Of course we all know that much of their caterwauling has less to do with Iran than it does with Obama himself. Any victory for the President, no matter how big or how small, is guaranteed to send conservatives into an apoplectic frenzy of condemnation. If Barack done it, we’re agin’ it. Obama hatred runs deep through the veins of Republicans and, as we’ve learned over the past six years, there is no antidote.

Those who are condemning the agreement with Iran have absolutely nothing constructive to offer in its place except violence. Some of these people are running for President of the United States. I’m reminded of John McCain’s psychotic episode during a speech when he sang “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” to the tune of the Beach Boys “Barbara Ann.” This is the bomb first, ask questions later mentality of today’s Republican’s. None of them should be allowed anywhere near the White House.

Republican senators openly try to sabotage Iran nuclear talks

It’s a sad, sad day in this country when Iran lectures our government, and they’re right. Yesterday, 47 of the 54 GOP senator’s sent a letter to the "leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran" warning them not to make any deal with Obama -- because it could be overturned once he leaves office. This was done while the Administration is involved in very delicate negotiations with Iran on nuclear weapons.

Lead by war monger Sen. Tom Cotton (R. Ark), the traitorous Republican buffoons who tried to do an end run around the President are being roundly and justly castigated for their outrageous behavior, even by members of their own party. This deliberate attempt to sabotage American foreign policy and President Obama is being called traitorous by some and is pretty clearly a violation of the Logan Act, which reads:

"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."

The Administration has signaled it won’t pursue this, which is a shame, but on some levels understandable. On top of everything else, the author’s of the patronizing letter flubbed a point about our own Constitution, and was then lectured by the Iranian negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif in his response.

"The authors may not fully understand that in international law, governments represent the entirety of their respective states, are responsible for the conduct of foreign affairs, are required to fulfill the obligations they undertake with other states and may not invoke their internal law as justification for failure to perform their international obligations. A change of administration does not in any way relieve the next administration from international obligations undertaken by its predecessor.”

The embarrassing action of Cotton and his co-conspirators demonstrates once again that the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party cares far less for this country than it does its own demented and dangerous ideological agenda.