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Nodack wrote:

The Cotton letter was written to inform Iran how our laws worked, that if they reached an agreement without Senate ratification it was not likely to be worth much.

Thats a nice way of putting it. It was merely a public service announcement and that was it's only intent.

Now, that's just not true. Well, the first part was...Dan did say what happened very nicely. But there was no PSA in the Republicans telling Iran that effectively any discussion they have with Obama is null and void without their approval, and by the way, Senators have longer terms and can stay in office indefinitely, whereas Obama is only in power until January, 2017.

Have you read the letter? It was a deliberate effort to tell Iran that (a) while we think Obama is being soft on you, it won't matter, because any agreement you make with him will not pass the House vote, and (b) he isn't going to be in office for long, but we will, so you should really think about what we want more than you currently are.

There is no possible way to look at this letter that doesn't make our government look incompetent and broken. I told Dan that I think the letter is a minor issue, and it is, because our government already looks incompetent and broken. But that is precisely because of stupid crap like this letter. Like him or not, Obama is the head of the Executive Branch. Half of the Legislative Branch just told a hostile foreign state that the guy they are negotiating with has no real power.

Re Kennedy - so, he offered to help the Russians with propaganda. That might be comparable to what Boehner just did with Netanyahu - if it were just Boehner, but it was the whole house. Not anywhere close to the scale of what Nixon did with regard to Vietnam - leveraging the lives of thousands of Americans. And not really comparable to the Iran letter, signed by 47 members of the Senate. Kennedy was one senator, not the party's representation in the Senate or the House.

Nodack wrote:Mike Rowe is a hard worker and pretty cool, but President? Did you know he used to be an opera singer? You look at the guy and watch his show and then think, opera singer? Who would have thunk?

People are living longer and financially that is a bad thing for Social Security. I do like how they are promoting IRA's and keep raising the limit. I max my IRA's out every year including SEP. When you are young and poor it's hard to think about putting money away for retirement.

Nodack wrote:Interesting animosity article. No wonder the party's try so hard to scare everybody. I think both sides need to be a little scared of each other, but every little thing is ratcheted up to the tenth power until it becomes ridiculous.

I was reading today where Obama was a mass murderer and needed to be put on trial because he deliberately ordered the killing of those hostages with a drone.

Nodack wrote:I don't know what code pink is. There are so many sites out there and some certainly on the fringes. I was reading Politico and that's where I was reading the comments. Comments come from regular people and of course there are some out there ones.

I don't think the left or right ever wins. If we split the country in two and had all the Republicans live in one half and all the Democrats live with in the other half where they could all live in their own Utopian societies I would bet that they each split into two factions that appose each other not long after. We can't live without having some evil force we have to fight against. I think it's human nature.