How else can they categorically tell Iran that any treaty President Obama established with the country will be overturned with the next Congress?
"Forty-seven Republican senators signed an open letter to Iran's leaders warning that a potential nuclear deal won't outlast Barack Obama's presidency, hinting that Congress does not intend to honor it."
"Forty-seven Republican senators signed an open letter to Iran's leaders warning that a potential nuclear deal won't outlast Barack Obama's presidency, hinting that Congress does not intend to honor it."
"The letter, led by freshman Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and first reported by Bloomberg View, comes at a highly sensitive time as the Obama administration is reportedly closing in on an agreement to lift economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for halting its nuclear program for as many as 15 years."
"It has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system," the Republican senators wrote. "First, under our Constitution, while the president negotiates international agreements, Congress plays the significant role of ratifying them. In the case of a treaty, the Senate must ratify it by a two-thirds vote. ... Anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/republican-letter-iran-obama
After all we know that the GOP fundamentally is opposed to democratically elected government anyway.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/03/why-gop-congress-wont-fix-voting-rights.html
Meanwhile. the GOP is as ignorant as it is anti-democratic and corrupt as they don't actually understand the Constitution the Tea Partiers like to brandish about in such a showy way:
"(The senators erred in their description of how treaties work. As Harvard professor Jack Goldsmith pointed out, the Senate does play a key role in voting on and consenting to a treaty, but it is the president who negotiates and formally "ratifies" it, as the Congressional Research Service has explained.)"
What they are actually are is desperate to undermine a twice duly elected President: they just can't bear to accept that they can kick and scream all they like-this treaty is going to happen no matter what they and Netanyahu think about it.
"Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) attacked the Republican letter as a "juvenile political attack" aimed at "undermining our commander in chief." Republicans, he said, "cannot accept the fact that this good man, Barack Obama, this man with the unusual name, was elected twice by overwhelming margins by the people of this country."
"In Senate floor remarks, he said Democrats never contemplated sending a letter to Iraq's leaders highlighting their disagreements with President George W. Bush. "So I say to my Republican colleagues: Do you so dislike President Obama you would take this extraordinary step? Obviously so," he said. "Why was it taken? I really don't understand other than the dislike of the president."
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