Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Reacts to Bibi's speech

++Josh Marshall says same old, same old but for the reference that you can google the details of the deal on line. This was a reference to the threat by the Obama Administration about leaking info. on the deal.

++Ed Kilgore quotes a Peter Beinert tweet that this was a Bibi speech without any mention of a negotiating process, two state solution or anything of relevance. Kilgore was sort of surprised that Bibi could dictate the issues he would speak about.

++Why I think Bibi spoke about Iran exclusively is that the GOP no longer has any credible people to speak on foreign policy and Bibi was as good as they could get.

++Jake Topper said it was an effective speech.

++Diane Feinstein said there were no solutions. Nancy Pelosi said it was an insult to the American people and Congress that they didn't know what kind of threat Iran was and that didn't have knowledge of the situation.

++Ted Cruz said the Obama Administration knows nothing about Iran.

++Christine Amapour said the speech was "dark and strangelovian."

++Ed Kilgore notes that Bibi suggesting that Iran was bluffing was not the greatest gambit to use since Bibi actually encouraged brinkmanship by the United States and felt that in his experience that isn't the way to negotiate.

++A blogger tweeted that "He hated the speech even more since W gave it in 2003."

++Civil rights legend John Lewis ,who boycotted the speech, said, "it was an insult to his president."

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