I knew without a doubt in my mind when freshman GOP Sen. Tom Cotton wrote a letter and then 46 other clueless senators signed on including Montana’s Steve Daines that Frank Miele would have to come up with a doozie to justify such a traitorous back stabbing unprecedented act by these GOP senators. 

The letter sent to Iran’s supreme leader, the ayatollah, as well as the invitation by GOP House Speaker John Boehner to Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to speak before a joint session of Congress was simply a last-ditch effort by the GOP and Netanyahu to scuttle nuclear arms talks between the U.S. and other world powers and Iran.

Frank in his March 15th “2 cents” column states that the senator’s letter took a stand for our Constitution and was to educate the Iranians on the nature of the American constitutional system. Sounds good, Frank, but once again, completely wrong.

It is not the job of the speaker to invite foreign leaders to speak before a joint session of Congress. This is a formality left to the president of the United States. It was no more than a campaign stop in the U.S. two weeks before elections in Israel to make him look more legitimate in the eyes of Israeli voters and to show the same voters that the American Republican Party was on the same page as Netanyahu.

The speech, like the letter a few days later, was an attempt by Netanyahu and the GOP Congress to torpedo talks that could have a peaceful conclusion. You ask why anyone in his right mind would not want a peaceful solution. The answer is sad, but oh so true. Each time that Netanyahu has been prime minister, he has wanted to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities (his solution). On the other hand, President Obama has been trying to wind down all the wars in the area and has no appetite to start another war that bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities would certainly bring about. Thus, the talks with Iran. 

But there are many Republicans in Congress that see war with Iran as the final solution; therefore, the attempts to make negotiations fail.

The actions of the GOP representatives that you send to the U.S. Congress are just as deplorable as a mother or father buying and using drugs rather than putting clothes on their children’s backs or food in their stomachs. They have pledged their allegiance to the military industrial congressional complex that put them in office and pay to keep them there over the welfare of our nation and its people.

Example: The Agency on Aging in our own county is always in need of a more spacious building to meet the needs of our ever-growing senior population. But, the GOP representatives that you send to Congress are much more likely to spend that money on a new airplane hangar in the middle of the Arizona desert to house obsolete fighter jets still coming off the assembly line.

Netanyahu may have won his election with help of Boehner, but he lost the respect of the whole world in doing so. Only one-third of his own country and, of course, all of the Republicans in Congress approve of his lies and underhanded way of winning.

Tom Cotton is a Republican Tea Party radical who is about making a name for himself at the expense of the president of our country. John Boehner is the worst speaker of the worst House of Representatives in our nation’s history. Iran didn’t need a letter from anyone explaining our Constitution. Their lead negotiator was educated in the U.S. and probably knows more about our Constitution than any of those signing the letter. 

And Frank, you’re always accusing Mr. Obama of ignoring or walking all over our Constitution. Wrong again, Frank! Mr. Obama was a student and teacher of constitutional law. He knows better than to do what you have alleged because the GOP House would start impeachment proceedings faster than they could run to the Fox Noise TV cameras.

Haines is a resident of Columbia Falls.