#YOUCANTMAKETHISSH*TUP: McCain Now Blaming Snowstorm For Iran Letter

[Hissyspit]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026361533


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-13/republicans-feeling-heat-over-iran-letter-express-regrets

Iran
Republicans Feeling Heat Over Iran Letter Express Regrets
Mar 13, 2015 12:23 PM EDT

(Bloomberg) -- At least a few of the Republican senators feeling the backlash from signing an open letter to Iran’s leaders are expressing some second thoughts.

Amid mounting criticism from allies, home-state editorial boards and colleagues who opted not to sign the missive, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson became the latest Republican to suggest he might do things differently if given another chance.

While Johnson said he stood by the content of the letter, which warned Iran that any deal with President Barack Obama might not outlast his term in office, he said it probably shouldn’t have been directed to leaders of the Islamic Republic.

‘I suppose the only regret is who it’s addressed to,’’ Johnson said at a Bloomberg breakfast in Washington. The Wisconsin Republican said it may have been a “tactical error” and that the letter could have been addressed to Obama’s administration or the American people.

Arizona Senator John McCain, a prominent Republican voice on foreign affairs and national security, has said haste and an impending snowstorm in Washington short-circuited more measured consideration of the letter.

“It was kind of a very rapid process. Everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm,” McCain told Politico in an interview. “I think we probably should have had more discussion about it, given the blowback that there is.”

[monmouth4]

1. Actually, I believe McCain. They are a haphazard bunch who never think ahead of three hours and

wanted to get out of there. The letter was not going to do any harm and hey it's snowing and I gotta catch a plane...

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. gramps apparently has ZERO learning curve.

He's been a Senator for several centuries now, has screwed up on a regular basis and had his ass handed him time and again
and yet, what does he do?

[napkinz]

2. ...

[uppityperson]

3. They couldn't take time to read this? 5 paragraphs. It takes so much time to consider 5 paragraphs?

http://go.bloomberg.com/assets/content/uploads/sites/2/150309-Cotton-Open-Letter-to-Iranian-Leaders.pdf

[Spazito]

4. LOL, there's pathetic and then there's pathetically stupid...

These backpedaling excuses fall into the latter category as does Rand Paul's 'wrongly addressed' excuse.

[fadedrose]

5. McCain answered a question that was on my mind

When I looked out the doors and windows the last 3 weeks, all I saw was snow, and more snow. I was starting to think that the White Horse in Revelation was mounted by a Snowman, but how did it tie in the harm it would bring to the world?

McCain's letter to Iran and the signatories on it may bring about a nuclear holocaust if an agreement isn't reached, so that's why the White Horse is Snow, because it made the Senators get out of town quick....

3 more horses to go, and the Republicans are riding them too.

[SomethingFishy]

6. "Given the blowback that there is"...

WHAT? Did you not expect any fucking "blowback"?

And really? The dog ate my homework? Fuck You McCain.

[Aerows]

11. I can see it now.

"Well, my constituents were dumb enough to vote for me again, I might as well not disappoint them and be as dumb as possible."

[AtomicKitten]

7. McLame never disappoints.

[CJCRANE]

8. When was the last time the Repubs *weren't* in a hurry to get out of town?

They're always "skipping town" for one reason or another.

[Ilsa]

9. The lazy bums don't take anything seriously. nt

[Chemisse]

10. This excuse really illuminates what a very bad job these people are doing.

In what occupation can you just blow off doing your work because you want to get out of town? And still have a job?

[tridim]

12. The GOP is swirling down the toilet...

I'm enjoying this.

[Hekate]

13. Aw, does McCain haz a sadz from the blowback? Bwahahahahaha

[City Lights]

14. He is pathetic. nt

[yellowcanine]

15. Crocodile tears. The only reason they are sorry is because of the backlash.

[scarletwoman]

17. Sure. It's all fun and games until someone gets an eye poked out.

Idiots.

[B Calm]

18. So being lazy, stupid and snowstorms is now an excuse for being a traitor.

[malaise]

19. Good thing he was never President

What would he have signed to escape the weather

[Jack Rabbit]

20. I saw that last night

This gets curiouser and curiouser.

[LiberalElite]

21. IMO McCain should blame

being out in the Arizona sun too long.