The Traitor McCain Sides With Supreme Leader of Iran (Updated)

I was somewhat stunned that Obama did not rip into the GOP after 47 treasonous Republican Senators signed that bullshit letter to Iran last month.  But, as usual, he kept his cool.

Those days might be over:

President Barack Obama said Saturday that partisan wrangling over the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran and on other foreign policy matters has gone beyond the pale, singling out two senior Republican senators for particularly harsh criticism. "It needs to stop," he declared.

Obama complained that Sen. John McCain of Arizona had suggested that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's explanations of the framework agreement with Iran were "somehow less trustworthy" than those of Iran's supreme leader.

"That's an indication of the degree to which partisanship has crossed all boundaries," an exercised Obama said in a news conference at the end of the two-day Summit of the Americas. "And we're seeing this again and again." ***

Obama, speaking at a news conference in Panama City, said it was understandable that people would be suspicious of Iran, even that they would oppose the nuclear deal.

"But when you start getting to the point where you are actively communicating that the United States government and our secretary of state is somehow spinning presentations in a negotiation with a foreign power, particularly one you say is your enemy, that's a problem," he said.

Of course, this isn't anywhere near far enough -- Obama should be constantly questioning the patriotism of these treasonous bastards. But it's a good start.

And by the way, if McCain and the GOP love the Supreme Leader of Iran so much, then they should invite him to speak to a Joint Session of Congress.

UPDATE:  Here is a great New York Times Editorial on the GOP's efforts to de-legitimize America's first Black president. [h/t JB].  The editorial correctly points out that all the new GOP fuckery (e.g., the treason letter to Iran, all the secessionist horseshit, the Asshole McConnell's anti-American position with regard to foreign governments and climate change) is really just the same old crap we've seen before:

It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive.

Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused on blocking Mr. Obama’s agenda and denigrating him personally since the day he took office in 2009. But even against that backdrop, and even by the dismal standards of political discourse today, the tone of the current attacks is disturbing. So is their evident intent — to undermine not just Mr. Obama’s policies, but his very legitimacy as president.

It is a line of attack that echoes Republicans’ earlier questioning of Mr. Obama’s American citizenship. Those attacks were blatantly racist in their message — reminding people that Mr. Obama was black, suggesting he was African, and planting the equally false idea that he was secretly Muslim. The current offensive is slightly more subtle, but it is impossible to dismiss the notion that race plays a role in it.

It is my sincere hope that Obama responds to all of this by personally attacking McCain, McConnell, Cotton, and the rest by calling them traitors, because that's what they are -- they are traitors who have aligned themselves with the hardliners in Iran. Time to put in a raise, Mr. President.