Congress members
Sen. Bob CorkerDirksen Senate Office BuildingSD-425Washington, DC 20510Phone: 202-224-3344Sen. Lamar Alexander455 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510Phone: (202) 224-4944Fax: (202) 228-3398Rep. Chuck FleischmannTennessee-3rd, Republican230 Cannon HOBWashington DC 20515-4203Phone: (202) 225-3271Scott DesJarlaisTennessee-4th, Republican413 Cannon HOBWashington DC 20515-4204Phone: (202) 225-6831
In the morning-after fog of the first GOP debate, the only person looking more petulant and pouty than Donald Trump is Tennessee Repubican Sen. Bob Corker.
Our normally level-headed senator, in his overstated indignation over President Barack Obama’s remarks Wednesday about the Iran deal, doesn’t seem able to see the war forest for the partisan trees.
Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged Thursday during one of his committee hearings that President Obama is trying to “shut down debate” on the nuclear agreement.
Really? After years of hearing Corker and other GOP leaders call him everything from a weakling to a traitor, Obama making his case to the American people is overbearing? Obama on Wednesday ending his hour-plus talk with an appeal to Americans that they write their Congress members and make their feelings about war vs. diplomacy to preempt war is “shutting down debate”? Obama reminding Americans that the United States – the most powerful country in the world – could and would use force if Iran fails to keep its end of the deal is somehow threatening to a Republican Congress that opposes everything the president says and does – even if Obama’s effort was a Republican idea first?