{"id":49794,"date":"2015-03-10T05:07:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T11:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/10\/thanks-cory-gardner-for-being-my-senatorial-dolt.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:24:15","slug":"thanks-cory-gardner-for-being-my-senatorial-dolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/10\/thanks-cory-gardner-for-being-my-senatorial-dolt.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Cory Gardner, for being my Senatorial Dolt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, there's Cory Gardner's name on the list, bold as brass.<\/p>\n

I tried to send the following message off of his website. Oddly enough, it threw an error.<\/p>\n

I am deeply disturbed that your were one of the co-signers of the open letter to the Iranian government essentially telling them to ignore any overtures by the President to negotiate a peaceful resolution to concerns over Iran's nuclear program. I remember when the rule was that political debate extended to the waterline, and there is certainly any number of ways that the US Senate can, if it desires, include itself in any sort of agreement between the US and Iran. By publicly acting in this fashion, however, you make US foreign policy out to be a simple extension of our internal political squabbles, and do far more damage to US reputation than any action the President is likely to pursue.<\/i><\/p>\n

I find this action to be against the interests of the United States, and emblematic of the Republican effort to delegitimize a president that has won two elections. For shame.<\/i><\/p>\n

Remind me again, Cory, how your candidacy was all about "jobs".<\/p>\n

(A few notes. First, I'm not ready to use the word "traitor" in this context, but it's certainly, in my opinion, reprehensible behavior. Second, sabotaging foreign policy for political gain is hardly unprecedented by the GOP; consider Reagan's outreach to, yeah, Iran,<\/i> about the hostage crisis to help seal the deal in the 1980 campaign against Carter.)<\/p>\n

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Yeah, there's Cory Gardner's name on the list, bold as brass. I tried to send the following message off of his website. Oddly enough, it threw an error. I am deeply disturbed that your were one of the co-signers of the open letter to the Iranian government essentially telling them to ignore any overtures by … Continue reading “Thanks, Cory Gardner, for being my Senatorial Dolt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,10,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/15+-+1imgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/senator-cory-gardner-chutzpah.html","url_meta":{"origin":49794,"position":0},"title":"Senator Cory Gardner has … chutzpah","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Dec-17 9:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the election of Doug Moore (BWAH-HA-HA-HA!), my GOP Senator, Cory Gardner, had this to say: \u201cTonight\u2019s results are clear \u2013 the people of Alabama deemed Roy Moore unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate. 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