Who will take every opportunity to hammer on him and, at least, occasionally vote with Democrats. There is more to come. There’s always more. But he just had to primary him for someone who was pretty solid. He’s pissed. He’s going to use any opportunity to push back. It shouldn’t have happened this way. But it did, and someone will pay the price, no matter how small it is, because sometimes that is what is needed to dig in and stay put, a constant state of annoyance. We appreciate Raw Story:
A Republican Senator whom President Donald Trump drove from office unloaded on his Iran deal on Tuesday, calling it the worst foreign policy blunder in decades. Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican in the final months of his Senate term after losing his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, posted the broadside on X hours after the Trump administration read aloud the contents of its 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran to reporters.
Going by what was laid out on CNN, it’s all Iran and no US. The quantities of things going to Iran are disgusting. There is virtually nothing for us from the damn war. We gave up. Or rather, Trump gave up. It would look a lot different now if the effing war had never been started in the first place! Trump gets reduced to the equivalent of a child, saying, “Okay, we give in, please open the Strait of Hormuz.” And we all know that Iran could close it again at any time. That’s a helluva lot of power for one country to have. Then you add in everything that was on the memorandum, and the US is officially done as the leader of the free world. But moving on, back to Senator Cassidy.
“Reagan is rolling over in his grave,” Cassidy wrote. “Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future.” He ticked through the costs: 13 American service members dead, families paying elevated gas prices from the Hormuz closure, sanctions set to be lifted, and bombing halted — with Iran now positioned to rebuild. “This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades,” Cassidy wrote. The senator also told Nexstar on Capitol Hill: “The details that I’ve seen so far look … awful.“
As we mentioned before, this “awful” is actually an understatement. Iran gets everything. We get patted on the head and told, “There, there, everything will be okay now. You’ll see.” Horsepucky. It’s not even close. There is a new world power, and its name is Iran. It’s all because of the Strait. It’s all because we jumped into this war without planning, and it became a debacle. Then there’s the cost and what we have to replace. Billions of dollars that could have been used far better elsewhere.
Cassidy voted to convict Trump after his second impeachment. Trump backed a primary challenger against him in retribution — and after losing that primary last month, Cassidy immediately flipped to support a Democratic war powers resolution seeking to force Trump to end the Iran conflict. The broadside lands as the MOU’s terms drew fresh scrutiny. Senior administration officials read the agreement aloud to reporters Tuesday, revealing immediate waivers on Iranian oil exports, a $300 billion reconstruction framework, and a 60-day negotiation window to resolve Iran’s nuclear program. The deal does not bar Iran from enriching uranium, deferring the question to final talks. Cassidy was not alone. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the emerging deal “not remotely America First.”
Not even close. Of course, the war was not anything resembling America First. Just another Trump lie to add to the list. It only redirected attention from the Epstein files, for which the DoJ has yet to release the second half, for a short period of time. That isn’t going away no matter what Trump does. He broke that promise to MAGA, which was part of what put him back in office. At a guess, the majority of the people of America want the rest to come out, and we are not forgetting. They may have redacted Trump’s name and “friends’” names, but people slip. There is no guarantee that they’ll have redacted them all. Trump’s war was a disaster, and many other descriptions are too long to list. We get nothing. Well done, you SOB. (Not) Well done.
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