Harry is keeping an eye out for RINO’s to praise.
Via The Hill
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday praised the Republican senators who declined to sign a controversial open letter to Iran.
“I’m heartened … that a few Republicans, seven to be exact, didn’t sign the letter. That’s nice. Seven out of 54, certainly seven better than nothing,” Reid said from the Senate floor.
The open letter, signed by 47 Senate Republicans, states that any deal reached on Iran’s nuclear program could be overturned “with the stroke of a pen” after President Obama leaves the White House in 2017.
Republican Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Dan Coats (Ind.), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Thad Cochran (Miss.) did not sign the letter, and several of them have criticized it as inappropriate.
Democrats and the White House have slammed the 47 Republican senators who signed the letter, saying they are threatening to undermine the United States’ bargaining in the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.
“I think it’s somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners in Iran,” Obama said on Monday.
Reid, who has suggested the letter “empowered” the ayatollahs in Iran, suggested that the fight over the nuclear talks, as well an anti-human trafficking bill on the floor this week, are testing the GOP’s ability to govern.[…]
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