Treason and Sedition: Cotton or Obama?

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RedState: Treason and Sedition: Cotton or Obama?

By: davenj1 (Diary) | March 14th, 2015 at 10:50 AM

This week, the great foreign policy brouhaha revolves around a letter authored by Senator Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR)82% of Arkansas and signed by 47 fellow Senators. This letter was delivered to Iranian leaders who are currently negotiating a nuclear deal with the Obama administration, among others. To state that this has engendered some extreme hyberbole would be an understatement of the reactions. David Axelrod and Howard Dean, among others, have intimated that the action was “treasonous” or “seditious.” The talking heads on the Left are aghast that any

 

In comparison to some efforts by Democrats in Congress, the letter by Cotton is tame. It merely advises the Iranians of how our Constitution is supposed to work. This writer fails to see how it differs from any action taken by Democrats in the past other than it was Democrats doing the “impinging on foreign affairs” and a Republican President’s foreign policy they were “undermining.” What about the many visits by sitting Democratic members of Congress to Cuba during the Cold War. We had a travel embargo to Cuba in effect for many years, but celebrated Leftist “flotillas” to that country were commonplace.