Stronger language has rarely been summoned to condemn. The NY Daily News today is denouncing 47 Senators who wrote a letter to Iran’s leaders.
The New York Daily News is one of the top five largest newspapers in the country, and it is far from liberal. Today, its front page is denouncing the 47 Republican Senators who signed a letter to the leaders of Iran. That letter, an unprecedented act itself, effectively attacks President Barack Obama by attempting to undermine his negotiations for a deal on Iran’s development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
The letter falsely claims that any deal the President reaches with Iran is null and void after he leaves office.
It is also, as the Washington Post notes, “farcically condescending in word and tone” to the Iranian government, claiming they “may not fully understand our constitutional system.” An embarrassing statement, considering the GOP Senators get wrong the basics of our constitutional system, claiming the Senate must ratify the treaty for it to be effective. They do not.
The NY Daily News targets Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rand Paul (R-KY). Senator Cotton penned the letter and circulated it among his colleagues.
In response to many on social media, Bloomberg assures us the letter is not “treason,” although there is a White House petition demanding the Senators be charged with a felony for violating the Logan Act.Â
Elsewhere, there are charges of sedition.
And Twitter has been especially active surrounding the news of the letter, (including a tweet from your truly):
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