I hear Democrats in the Senate calling Tom Cotton and his friends 'traitors' for sending the Iranian Mullahs a letter warning them that any deal Obama signs will have to go through them. Here's the issue with that. There were multiple instances in the last 35 years of Democratic politicians attempting to undermine the critical negotiations a sitting president was engaged in with another nation. Take note of the first instance where Ted Kennedy tried to lure the KGB into secretively influencing the 1984 elections while Reagan was in the midst of negotiations with the USSR.
5 times Democrats undermined Republican presidents with foreign governments WashingtonExaminer.com1. That time "liberal lion" Ted Kennedy proposed a secret alliance with the Soviet Union to defeat President Ronald Reagan A 1983 KGB memo uncovered after the fall of the Soviet Union described a meeting between former KGB officials and former Democratic Sen. John Tunney (Sen. Kennedy's confidant) in Moscow. Tunney asked the KGB to convey a message to Yuri Andropov, the Soviet leader, proposing a campaign in which Kennedy would visit Moscow to offer talking points to Andropov and Soviet officials on how to attack Reagan's policies to U.S. audiences. According to the memo, Kennedy, through the intermediary, offered to help facilitate a media tour in a proposed visit by Andropov to the U.S. Kennedy's hope, as conveyed by the letter, was to hurt Reagan politically on foreign policy at a time when the economic recovery was working in his favor.
2. "Dear Comandante"
In 1984, 10 Democratic lawmakers — including the then majority leader and House Intelligence Committee chairman – sent a letter to Nicaraguan Communist leader Daniel Ortega known as the "Dear Comandante" letter. In it, the lawmakers criticized Reagan's policy toward Nicaragua and whitewashed the record of violence by the Sandinista communists.[/URL]
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