"... the danger in the room wasn’t coming from the deal or its administration proponents. It was coming from the interrogators." Of course, that's because they're Republicans!

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COMMENTS: 
*  So, my conservative friends? You want war?  Deal, on two conditions:  1: Immediate tax increases to pay all future costs of the war AND retroactively pay for all costs of the failed Bush wars. Patriots do not put wars on credit cards  2: A reinstatement of the draft. It's gonna be YOUR kids that might get sent to the front lines and get their legs or brains blown up.  You up for it, or do you have a major money-mouth disconnect?
*  Gotta love Lindsey Graham. Who wins in a war with Iran?? We win! (Just like Iraq!?) The sad part is, there are plenty of dumb Americans who will fall for the patriotic BS.
    *  The next question after that is who wins the peace? That's the one thing the GOP never did answer for Iraq.
        *  And Lindsey et al. are more than willing to make the same mistake. 'Merican exceptionalism in action.
    *  The question I would have posed in reply: "And who exactly, Sen. Graham, wins a nuclear war?"
*   And people wonder why I will not even consider voting for Republicans any more. This article goes a good way towards explaining why.
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Not Fit to Lead
The Iran hearings have shown how the Republican Party can no longer be trusted with the presidency.
By William Saletan, July 31, 2015

If Republicans win the White House next year, they’ll almost certainly control the entire federal government. Many of them, running for president or aspiring to leadership roles in Congress, are trying to block the nuclear deal with Iran. This would be a good time for these leaders to show that they’re ready for the responsibilities of national security and foreign policy. Instead, they’re showing the opposite. Over the past several days, congressional hearings on the deal have become a spectacle of dishonesty, incomprehension, and inability to cope with the challenges of a multilateral world.

When the hearings began more than a week ago, I was planning to write about the testimony of Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. But the more I watched, the more I saw that the danger in the room wasn’t coming from the deal or its administration proponents. It was coming from the interrogators. In challenging Kerry and Moniz, Republican senators and representatives offered no serious alternative. They misrepresented testimony, dismissed contrary evidence, and substituted vitriol for analysis. They seemed baffled by the idea of having to work and negotiate with other countries. I came away from the hearings dismayed by what the GOP has become in the Obama era. It seems utterly unprepared to govern.

If you didn’t have time to watch the 11 hours of hearings conducted on July 23, July 28, and July 29, consider yourself lucky. Here are the lowlights of what you missed.

1. North Korea. [major snippage]

2. Israel. [major snippage]

3. The IAEA’s “secret deal.” [major snippage]

4. EMPs. [major snippage]

5. Sanctions. [major snippage]

6. Pariahs. [major snippage]

7. Bad guys. [major snippage]

8. Indifference. [major snippage]

9. Winning. [major snippage]

10. Patriotism. [major snippage]

There’s plenty more I could quote to you. But out of mercy, and in deference to the many dead and retired Republicans who took foreign policy seriously, I’ll stop. This used to be a party that saw America’s leadership of the free world as its highest responsibility. What happened? And why should any of us entrust it with the presidency again?
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