GOPer invites Hillary Clinton to sign Iran letter
Source: CNN.com
Washington (CNN)Sen. Tom Cotton said Tuesday he'd "welcome" presidential candidates to join the 47 Senate Republicans who signed a controversial letter to Iran warning the country's leaders that a lasting nuclear deal would have to be approved by Congress.
And Cotton said he would welcome "even Hillary Clinton," the presumptive Democratic presidential frontrunner, to join the effort.
"I suspect she might have reservations about this ill-fated nuclear deal with Iran as well," Cotton said on CNN's New Day.
Several potential GOP presidential candidates have already signed onto the letter. Sens. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham are among the 46 Republicans who signed onto Cotton's letter "to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran." President Barack Obama slammed the letter on Monday, accusing the GOP of making "common cause with the hard-liners in Iran" by attempting to undercut ongoing negotiations that face a first deadline for a framework agreement at the end of the month.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/tom-cotton-2016-presidential-candidates-iran-letter/
So far, she has said nothing about the letter, despite being invited to sign it. As former Secretary of State, she's almost duty-bound to stand up with the President. If she doesn't speak out forcefully against the 47, she's complicit with the bipartisan war party. Again.
If she does take the opportunity during her 1:30pm statement today -- and is very clear in her statement that she supports the President's diplomatic efforts, and condemns this effort to hijack and spoil the talks with Iran -- my estimation of her can only rise, and I will thank her.
android fan
(214 posts)This is a slam-dunk for Logan Act Violation and Cotton keeps stretching it too far. It's time for the 47 Republican Senators to answer for their felonious behavior.
Baitball Blogger
(46,752 posts)If they succeed in convincing others to follow their example they will certainly make the transgression large enough to make it impossible for anyone to take legal action against them. That's their method. That's what makes Thirdway so dangerous. They have followed ill-conceived ideas from Republicans before and when it all falls apart, no one is guilt-free to represent the interests of the tax-payers.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)emails - I think she has waited too long to respond. The Rs and the media are off and running and nothing is going to stop them.
Some of out liberal sites us "rapid response" letters to get our attention on their issues. I think that idea would help Hillary more than whatever it is she is doing now.
Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)The repukes used private servers the whole time they were in power and weren't asked to explain. They moved our vote over those same aeevers and nobody questioned them. Screw their questions.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)In this case silence is not helping with the average voter.
groundloop
(11,520 posts)John Kerry made a fatal mistake by not responding to the swift boat lies, even though most of us on the left considered them to be so outrageous as to be unbelievable. After enough days of no response those lies got their own life, Hillary needs to avoid that mistake by shooting down this story quickly (and IMO she may have already waited too long).
Botany
(70,546 posts)HRC would never undercut the POTUS or Sec. Kerry.
Stuck on stupid = Sen. Cotton
father founding
(619 posts)Now We have something in writing, all the evidence we need.
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)And she is not complicit with anything regardless of your personal declarations.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)clear announcement that she stands with the President and against the Senators -- preferably at the very beginning -- she will be rightly viewed as a self-serving opportunist, and a determined career Neocon.
I'd be astonished if she doesn't make such a statement against the 47.
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)Does that also make her a racist?
leveymg
(36,418 posts)This statement on the letter is a must-do for her.
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)She's not obligated to say anything about anything. She has no official role and is not currently a candidate for anything. Of course, if she addresses it (voluntarily or not), I expect her to come down hard on the letter. They underestimate her. Cotton is naive.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)If HRC doesn't take this high-visibility opportunity to speak against the letter, it will confirm some of our worst fears and misgivings about her.
samsingh
(17,599 posts)this letter'.
frylock
(34,825 posts)lebkuchen
(10,716 posts)signed, of course.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)a clear statement at the first opportunity, which is now.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Otherwise, we can assume she's okay with it. It's decision time.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)to the world? The only reasonable conclusion: she doesn't support diplomacy with Iran, and that as President, she will pursue a non-negotiated approach.
That's why she has to clearly stand today against the letter, and has to take this opportunity at the UN to speak out on it.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...as long as she's clear.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)She'll consider Cotton's offer from the party of the Senator with a snowball, after they fix the mess they made in Iraq.
I suggest, Senator Cotton and the other 46 GOPers take the first flight available to Iraq and not return until the mission is completed. No early withdraws!
leveymg
(36,418 posts)I was in error about the party affiliation of Sen. Mark Kirk of Il. He is GOP, as are all the signatories. That is just one more reason for Hillary to make a clear statement condemning the Iran letter.
John Poet
(2,510 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)Too many here are doing the Repuke's work for them. Repuke= repeating right wing talking pints.
NOT wasting my time.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Response to leveymg (Original post)
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Vinca
(50,299 posts)"Hillary's Treasonous Act."