++Daniel Drezner weighs in on the GOP tolling Obama. Drezner thinks this doesn't quite rise to the level of the Logan Act but is another plot by the GOP to delegitimize the President and muck things up. The basic message to the Iranian hardliners is that we are hardline too so we can't negotiate.
++Jack Goldsmith at Lawfare weighs in on the Senators' misunderstanding of the constitution and the idea of ratifying a treaty.
++The GOP is treating the whole negotiating deal as another of President Obama's executive order and by that they argue that they can erase it once another President takes office.
++TAKE NOTE: For those concerned about torture,these are the warning signs about what a GOP President would do the minute they would get into office. This is the failure of the Obama Administration for not prosecuting CIA personnel and its leadership for allowing torture in the name of the United States.
++In this strange gambit by the GOP,you have the glimmers of the damage they will do by rolling back executive orders. President Obama is trying to minimize the damage of such a move with regards to the EPA by aiming at a global agreement on climate change, which would make it a diplomatic disaster if a Republican did what W did to the Kyoto Accords. The same can be said with his immigration executive orders. He believes that the result and the next election will demonstrate how difficult it is to go totally nativist.
++But IS THE IRANIAN DEAL an executive order? Is it a treaty? Walter Pincus last week explained other multinational agreements where only the President had to agree without them being challenged by Congress.
++Since the 2000 elections, we have seen how the republicans play loosey-goosey with our constitutional order. Now they are ramping up into high gear. How much more destruction can the GOP do? It's a question to ponder about for the next elections.
++The White House is right that the GOP wants to back America into a war with Iran. But Harry Reid may be right too,"It's petty."
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