CONSERVATIVE
POLITICKING AT IT’S WORST
(FRAZER
CHRONICLE)
(All
the News That Nobody Else Will Print)
The word has many meanings,
almost like “in the eye of the beholder”,
in today’s world, when people talk about an issue there’s a twisting, a bending
and for goodly measure a bunch of mud thrown onto an issue to darken the waters
even further. What word that I’m talking about…..well gee whiz…..politicking is
the word, and it’s the single most abrasive act that elected officials practice
to sway their constituents and opponents alike.
I’m working up to my eighth
decade on the planet and I’ve seen a bunch of crap come down the pike and get
flushed away…..the good as well as the bad, but I got to admit that the past
few months the politicians on both sides of the aisle have created some of the
most vile stuff I’ve ever seen or heard of.
Those of you who read my
blogs understand that I’m just a kind of country bumpkin, just trying to
impart some of my opinions, and hopefully get the pot to boil quicker. What I
attempt to do is to share my thoughts with people…..and make them think.
We now have 47 Republican
Senators who have signed and sent an open letter to the Islamic Republic
of Iran which details to them how parts of our constitution works, and also has
a warning that any kind of nuclear agreement that the current US President
might sign could become null and void if a Republican wins the elections of
2016.
Has this ever happened…..as
much as I can find it hasn’t, there’s several different issues connected with
the letter that include acts of sedition, and the very legality of sending such
a document to a foreign country while you are a duly elected official at least
on the federal level. Now I can write that letter, and I can get my friends and
neighbors to co- sign it and airmail it to whomever I want and that my
friends…..is legal.
In January of this year,
House Speaker John Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to
address congress on the threats that an Iranian nuclear program would be to the
Middle East and the United States as well.
Of course Netanyahu
accepted, giving a speech to the joint session of the United States Congress on
February 11. His speech was critical of the president and his administrations
nuclear talks with the governing body of Iran.
We now, as American citizens,
are saddled not only with part of the US Congress disrespecting the country’s
president, but 47 senators signing a letter to a foreign government’s leaders
that shows exactly how they feel about America’s president.
WHAT’S
UP WITH THAT
To understand and to have an
opinion about the letter…..you need first to read the letter; so without
further to-do:
An
Open Letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran:
“It
has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our
government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus,
we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our Constitution-the
power to make binding international agreements and the different character of
federal office-which should seriously consider as negotiations progress.
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. A so-called congressional-executive
agreement requires a majority vote of both the House and Senate (which, because
of procedural rules, effectively means a three-fifths vote in the Senate).
Anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement.
Second,
the offices of our Constitution have different characteristics. For example,
the president may serve only two 4-year terms, whereas senators may serve an
unlimited number of 6-year terms. As applied today, for instance, President
Obama will leave office in January 2017, while most of us will remain in office
well beyond then-perhaps decades.
What
these two constitutional provisions mean is that we will consider any agreement
regarding your nuclear-weapons program that is not approved by the Congress as
nothing more than an executive agreement between President Obama and Ayatollah
Khamenei. The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the
stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement
at any time.
We
hope this letter enriches your knowledge of our constitutional system and
promotes mutual understanding and clarity as nuclear negations progress”.
Sincerely,
PRESIDENT
OBAMA A DUNCEL
A relatively new term
(computer age) but non-the-less appropriate here, what the term dunsel means literally is that a machine
part, or the officer of an organization has absolutely no use! So I
guess at least 47 Republicans figure that President Obama has no use, and is
simply a lame duck for the next year and a half. Hummmmmmmmm, I wonder if
Republicans, wide-spread, feel the same as these Senators do: Cotton, Hatch,
Grassley, McConnell, Shelby, McCain, Inhofe, Roberts, Sessions, Enzi, Crapo,
Graham, Comyn, Burr, Thune, Isakson, Vitter, Barrasso, Wicker, Risch, Kirk,
Blunt, Moran, Portman, Boozman, Toomy, Hoeven, Rubio, Johnson, Paul, Lee,
Ayotte, Heller, Scott, Cruz, Fischer, Capito, Cassidy, Gardner, Lankford,
Daines, Rounds, Perdue, Tillis, Ernst, Sasse, Sullivan?
Over Obama’s 2nd
term there has been little that I’ve agreed with as far as the president’s
foreign policies are concerned. I think that he’s pulled some real booboos that
have come back to haunt the administration, and more important the country.
However the way I look at the situation is that he and his administration are
what we are stuck with no matter their actions, or reactions, and for a segment
of our elected officials to openly show it’s hostility towards the president
and his decision aren’t in bad taste…..there in deplorable bad taste.
Is this how far our
democratic system has sunk, how partisan the operations of what we call “our government” is now operated…..mean
spirited, and taking cheap-shots whenever possible…..and in the long run,
disregarding the very system that those 47 joker senators seem intent on
circumventing…..what have we, as the electorate
to do…..DOES ANYBODY HAVE A CLUE?
HAVE
A NICE DAY!
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