We looked at this in my previous piece that pointed out they never have an alternative plan-not on Obamacare, not on Medicare, not on immigration or wage stagnation, or police brutality, or the explosion in the cost of college.
' http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/jeb-bush-doesnt-want-to-abolish.html
The reason is that they think the status quo in each case is fine and want to continue with it. The thought the status quo prior to Medicare was fine-old folks being bankrupted in their later years on healthcare bills.
So I welcome Paul Waldman declaring that we should end the pretense that the GOP has an alternative to the Iran Treaty. Their alternative is that we shouldn't have a State Department at all and that all foreign relations should be conducted through the Department of Defense.
It's called gunboat diplomacy. Kind of like Angela Merke's latest 'bailout' of Greece.
"Secretary of State John Kerry went to Capitol Hill today to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the deal to restrain Iran’s nuclear program. As expected he absorbed a lot of insults and invective from Republicans who are critical of the deal. Along with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, Kerry tried to rebut the criticisms as best he could."
"But you could see in Kerry’s occasionally exasperated expression something that we all ought to be willing to acknowledge: This whole debate is a charade."
"There’s a reason no Republican has managed to answer President Obama’schallenge to articulate an alternative that would be preferable to what the six-party negotiations produced, and it isn’t because this deal is perfect or couldn’t have been better. It’s that from where Republicans sit, any deal negotiated with Iran is a bad one by definition."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/23/lets-stop-pretending-republicans-have-a-serious-critique-of-the-iran-deal/
As Waldman says they will reject any deal because it's Obama's deal but more fundamentally they don't get what a negotiation is. They don't get that this is something you do with your adversaries not your friends:
"And it assumes that when dealing with adversaries like Iran, negotiation is weak, again by definition. Negotiation means talking to those we hate, and even offering them concessions. Successful negotiation ends with an outcome that our adversaries actually praise, when what we really want is for them to fall to their knees and surrender to our might. This is what elected Republicans believe, and more importantly, it’s what they’ve been telling their constituents for years, so it’s what those constituents demand."
As he says they really want to pull out of the deal-again gunboat diplomacy. What's clear is the 6 years outof the White House haven't quenched the GOP desire for more war. They want more Iraqs. Iran which starts with the same letter and has the same amount of letters will do for them.
The story of a Jeb Bush Presidency would likely be the Iran War just as it was the Iraq War for his brother-and his father.
Meanwhile there are some timid Democrats that the GOP is going to target in opposition ads.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/23/are-democrats-in-for-a-long-hot-august-over-the-iran-deal/
' http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/jeb-bush-doesnt-want-to-abolish.html
The reason is that they think the status quo in each case is fine and want to continue with it. The thought the status quo prior to Medicare was fine-old folks being bankrupted in their later years on healthcare bills.
So I welcome Paul Waldman declaring that we should end the pretense that the GOP has an alternative to the Iran Treaty. Their alternative is that we shouldn't have a State Department at all and that all foreign relations should be conducted through the Department of Defense.
It's called gunboat diplomacy. Kind of like Angela Merke's latest 'bailout' of Greece.
"Secretary of State John Kerry went to Capitol Hill today to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the deal to restrain Iran’s nuclear program. As expected he absorbed a lot of insults and invective from Republicans who are critical of the deal. Along with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, Kerry tried to rebut the criticisms as best he could."
"But you could see in Kerry’s occasionally exasperated expression something that we all ought to be willing to acknowledge: This whole debate is a charade."
"There’s a reason no Republican has managed to answer President Obama’schallenge to articulate an alternative that would be preferable to what the six-party negotiations produced, and it isn’t because this deal is perfect or couldn’t have been better. It’s that from where Republicans sit, any deal negotiated with Iran is a bad one by definition."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/23/lets-stop-pretending-republicans-have-a-serious-critique-of-the-iran-deal/
As Waldman says they will reject any deal because it's Obama's deal but more fundamentally they don't get what a negotiation is. They don't get that this is something you do with your adversaries not your friends:
"And it assumes that when dealing with adversaries like Iran, negotiation is weak, again by definition. Negotiation means talking to those we hate, and even offering them concessions. Successful negotiation ends with an outcome that our adversaries actually praise, when what we really want is for them to fall to their knees and surrender to our might. This is what elected Republicans believe, and more importantly, it’s what they’ve been telling their constituents for years, so it’s what those constituents demand."
As he says they really want to pull out of the deal-again gunboat diplomacy. What's clear is the 6 years outof the White House haven't quenched the GOP desire for more war. They want more Iraqs. Iran which starts with the same letter and has the same amount of letters will do for them.
The story of a Jeb Bush Presidency would likely be the Iran War just as it was the Iraq War for his brother-and his father.
Meanwhile there are some timid Democrats that the GOP is going to target in opposition ads.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/23/are-democrats-in-for-a-long-hot-august-over-the-iran-deal/
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