I know, but its getting harder and harder for fans of Canada to keep on believing in promise of Canada.

The promise of Canada? Ah, I don't think so. Not for a very long time.

But, thanks for the kind words. Ahem.

OH NO!!!!!

Remember what happened to Darby O'Gill!!!!!

:D

Michale

Thanks for the kind words.

How does he do it, day after day?

Not the answer you're looking for, but here goes: He does it by occasionally taking two weeks off to have fun on vacation!

Heh.

Yes, today's FTP column will be the last for a while. More details later, just had to toss out a warning. Chris is about to visit his relatives in Ireland, to celebrate Paddy's Day in Dublin! Woo hoo!

:-)

As I said, more details to come, later...

-CW

I had a dream a couple nights ago that Netanyahu lost the Israeli election..

Judging from reports out of Israel, it appears my dream might be prescience..

Gods help Israel...

Michale

Cue the indignant, "That was different!!" calls.. :D

Michale

If you do, to be fair, you'll have to engrave the names of Democrat Congress Critters who talked to the "enemy" while a GOP POTUS was dealing with them...

Pelosi going to visit Syria's Assad comes to mind... I am sure I can come up with many more examples...

Once again, double standards...

One set of rules for Democrats..

A completely different set of rules for Republicans..

I'll get back with you on that Biden PDF... It's at home..

Michale

Liz: "Seriously, it is getting harder and harder for a fan of America to keep on believing in the promise of America."

I know, but its getting harder and harder for fans of Canada to keep on believing in promise of Canada. Ford, tar sands, Biber. Sometimes (but not always) it pays to pretend you didn't hear what drifted across the fence from your neighbor's property last night. I have to say that MY neighbors are very skilled at this.

It's getting harder and harder to believe in anything..and seems to have always been. The Arc of History is like the Escher staircase...actually there a couple of 'em, I mean this one.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/965kvki.com/files/2013/07/escher1.png

Good point Bazi

Mopshell, if you haven't read the Slate Parody featuring the Iranian Reponse to the Senate, you do so, so should you all.,.

Michael - 4 Link? Sounds plausible, but can't find it.

In closing, I propose engraving the names of the 47 senators on a neutral gray hunk of granite. Place it prominently in a well traveled part of The Mall in DC. Profile in Courage or Monument to Stupidity? Worth pondering as history drifts on. It's your footnote guys, live with it.

Having stated all of the afore I do acknowledge your commentary where you state it's utterly ridiculous (my take) for the Left to scream TREASON!!! and call for prosecutions of the Republicans...

But, for the most part, you are the exception that emphasizes the PARTY UBER ALLES rule....

Just wanted to make sure that was clear...

Now... Having said THAT...

What Democrat would propose today making Fox News illegal, after all?

Uhh.. MANY Democrats have proposed that very thing.. Along with criminalizing DRUDGE REPORT

The entirety of the new NET NEUTRALITY proposed by the Obama Administration has the potential to do EXACTLY that..

I'm just sayin'...

Michale

Is there ANYTHING that transcends Party ideology??

Is there ANYTHING that would prompt Weigantians to curse and castigate Democrats and applaud Republicans??

To date??

Nothing... Zilch.... Nada.....

Party Uber Alles...

Michale

Like with Hillary's Email-Gate, like with EVERYTHING....

It's only abhorrent when Republicans do it..

Democrats get a pass... Democrats are as pure as the driven snow...

Yaaaawwwwnnnnn

Michale

But cooler heads are beginning to prevail. People are starting to see how terms such as "traitor" and "treason" are inapplicable and why the Logan Act is also no answer at all. The GOP47 did nothing illegal.

That, however, does not exempt them from multi-layered criticism. The tone of the letter is condescending and insulting. (Richard Zombeck wrote an excellent article for Huffington Post about this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-zombeck/gop-continues-to-embarras_b_6852362.html?utm_hp_ref=politics ). Was it too much to ask that someone in the Republican Senate majority research who this letter would go to before making such ignorant assumptions? Such parochialism reflected very poorly on the nation.

Then there was the sheer unadulterated embarrassment of being schooled by the Iranian Foreign Minister, Dr Javad Zarif. However, I have to say that there is also sufficient evidence to believe Democratic Senators were just as ignorant of US and International Law as the GOP47 proved themselves to be. Whether or not the letter signers learned anything from Dr Zarif's response is uncertain, even dubious at this point, but I hope the Democrats did and that they count themselves extremely lucky to have this teachable moment without being in the firing line and before they committed themselves to voting for the Menendez-Corker bill. Had they done so, they would have acquainted themselves with lasting embarrassment and thoroughly deserved it.

The letter also refers to Iran's "nuclear weapons program" and I wonder: did they think they were being clever or did they really dismiss US, UN and Mossad intelligence, all of which says the Iranians do not have an active nuclear weapons program? To say this was undiplomatic is understating the case.

That the GOP47 ignored the US Constitution with regard to its directive re negotiating with foreign countries is almost laughable. It is certainly gross hypocrisy given all their propaganda claims about President Obama being "unlawful" and "unconstitutional" when here they are being blatantly and proudly unconstitutional themselves!

Then there are their excuses, so many and varied and even contradictory. At first there were the two GOP aides who separately depicted the signers as having a "cheeky" sense of humor and blamed the administration for failing to show the same sense of humor.

Senator McCain initially said "it might not have been the best way" for his party to achieve its goals then, at a subsequent interview, blamed a snowstorm for a "very rapid process".

Rand Paul and Rob Portland both claimed that they signed on to "strengthen the President's hand" while Lindsey Graham and others (included McCain yet again) blamed President Obama. Apparently the GOP47 cannot be held responsible for their own actions, the President made them do it.

It's been an extraordinary event from start til now though I do wonder at its shelf life. The media already appear to be tiring of it so I suppose it won't last much longer. But it was the complete unpredictability of it that I found most astounding so I am now wondering what else Congressional Republicans have in store for us. I can hardly wait to find out.

Is that the America we all really want to live in, where half the Senate is sent to prison for playing politics?

Well, since you put that way ...

Seriously, it is getting harder and harder for a fan of America to keep on believing in the promise of America.

Just when I think that American pols can't possibly do anything more stupid than the last thing they did, they go ahead and do it.

What's next? I hope I'm not around for a war with Iran. :(