Left pretty excited Ayatollah Khamenei backs them up on hate of GOP letter

The American left, which has a very short memory, is all in with the talking point that Republican senators are TRAITORS!!! for signing a letter that reminds Iran no agreement with Obama is binding if he doesn't submit it to the Senate for ratification, which of course he won't.

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They're a little confused of course. The actual meaning of treason is that you betray your country. They think it means refusing to support Barack Obama in his quest to give a terrorist state the bomb in a manner completely outside the processes proscribed in the Constitution. Maybe someone should explain that to them. But they would rather appeal to an authority like Iran's Ayatollah Khameiei, because we all know there is no one whose judgment you can trust like an Iranian ayatollah:

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the ultimate authority on all Iranian matters of state, added at a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and senior clerics that whenever negotiators made progress, the Americans became "harsher, tougher and coarser". The letter signed by 47 Republican senators warned Iran that any nuclear deal made with U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, could last only as long as he remained in office - an unusual intervention into U.S. foreign policy-making. The White House has described the letter as "reckless" and "irresponsible," saying it interfered with efforts by six major powers to negotiate with Iran on a deal to prevent it from building a nuclear bomb. Mehr quoted Khamenei as saying: "Of course I am worried, because the other side is known for opacity, deceit and backstabbing. "Every time we reach a stage where the end of the negotiations is in sight, the tone of the other side, specifically the Americans, becomes harsher, coarser and tougher. This is the nature of their tricks and deceptions." The clerical Supreme Leader said the letter was "a sign of the decay of political ethics in the American system", and he described as risible long-standing U.S. accusations of Iranian involvement in terrorism.

So nice of Ayatollah Khamenei to helpfully point out the flaws in American democracy, seeing as how it works so freely and liberally in Iran. Oh wait . . . It doesn't matter to the American left. They have an apoplectic seizure whenever Obama is challenged, and if someone will help them make the case that criticizing Obama amounts to treason, they'll take the help. They don't care where it comes from. Also, note something about this whole idea of opposition members of Congress undermining presidents on foreign policy. We've talked at length in recent days of all the examples of Democrats doing this in the past to Republican presidents, particularly with respect to Nicaragua in the '80s and Iraq during the '00s. You'll also recall Nancy Pelosi's famous trip to Syria in the waning years of the Bush Administration. One thing you'll recognize: When Democrats undermine the foreign policy of a Republican president, they're always in alignment with America's enemies. In this case, Republicans are undermining a Democrat president's attempt to give one of America's enemy the bomb. That's what really matters here. Opposition policies always oppose the presiden't policies. That's not treason. That's democracy. What you should really pay attention to is on whose behalf they do so.