pence: it's all about using people for his own political agenda.

literally, pence is one of those american 'statesmen' who would just as soon kill all iranians as support them -- or as the phrase goes "look at them."

he is a moron, and a corrupt evil narcissistic shithead.

Self-indulgence taken to a whole new level: Making anyone you care about in the world, American or Iranian, worse off so that you can feel good about yourself and pretend that you are tougher than the president. I know it hardly bears repeating, but these people are so inward looking it's frightening.

Pence is the representative for the district right next to me. And you'd be stunned at his popularity. Even two of my golfing buddies are big fans.

Doesn't say much for the citizens of Indiana nor my golf group.

Mike Pence is a pox on our country. A friggin national disgrace.

Someone should drop Pence off at a carpet bazaar in Tehran and tell him it's Kokomo. And maybe leave Lindsey Graham and John McCain with him.

"This problem goes to the essence of strategy: A 'tough' stance that Fox's anchors are pushing might feel good, but it likely would be unproductive. A sober stance of the sort that Obama has taken is more difficult but likely more effective in the long run."

As the late Hawaii Gov. John Burns -- a pious and profane an Irish Catholic if there ever was one -- once thoughtfully observed to reporters when questioned about a GOP political opponent, "Hell, any goddamned fool can draw a line in the sand."

Just remember to stay out of the farmers markets in Indiana!

Pence is the stupid fool who declared, after a trip to Bagdad with John McCrap, that the open markets in Bagdad were as safe as the farmers markets in Indiana.

Unfortunately, I know a number of persons in his congressional district and they adore him. Pointing out his ignorance and stupidity to them was a waste of breath. Rethug forever!

Every time I get discouraged by stuff like this (which admittedly is happening more and more frequently), I partially console myself with the fact that there have always been idiots like Pence in the public square.

William Jenner, for example, in the 1950s accused General George C. Marshall -- my candidate for the greatest and most selfless American of the 20th century -- of being a 'front man for traitors.' Jenner was a senator from Indiana at the time -- so in a sense Pence is simply carrying on a long Hoosier tradition of pinhead behavior. Saying he has the brain of a gnat is an insult to gnats.

But they are still hysterical over Carters jaunt to Palestine...Hypocrites- it's in their job description.

I think it was monumentally stupid to give the Iranian regime any legs to stand on. They can now claim American meddling. Does anybody in Congress get this? Since when has any Iranian resolution made a postive impact or hasn't come back to bite us in the ass. This has been going on for decades. We have wrong about how to deal with Iran since before the Shah - hence revolution. We have been carefully crafting a perfect American opposition in the Middle East since the 50s. I'm not sure why

Why are we even passing resolutions on Iran? Don't we have deficits, health care, energy, and an overstretched military to handle? Speading democracy is nice. It's nice to want to give everybody freedoms. It becomes hypocritical when we are forcing freedom on every country in the world. And by freedom - I mean more like America.

"I was cautiously optimistic that Republicans would realize this"

Are we supposed to believe that this has anything at all to do with a thought process? It is "standard Republican". Anything a Dem is doing has to be wrong and we oppose it - no other reason required, no thought process needed, and "damn the torpedos".

Pence is the sort of person who would loudly and publically double-dog-dare the Taliban to behead a captured American soldier, dumber than a bag of dry rocks.

I think the most telling part of this post is the last few lines. Obama quietly and effectively got the inflammatory language out of the resolution, and it passed almost unanimously. Some people will claim this proves that Obama and the Dems are weak, but there's another possibility. Sounds to me as though he did, again, just what Jonathan Chait described in his recent TNR article: treated his opponents with respect, operated on the assumption that they were acting in good faith to solve a particular problem, and challenged them to find a realistic way to solve it. On one level, this is just plain good manners. On another, it works a kind of jujitsu on the other side, using their strength against them. And Pence got pwned without even realizing it was happening.

I still find it funny that the same Chi chapter of the Sigma Chi produced Mike Pense and Woody Harrelson. (Well, and me.) Mike is three years older than me, so I did meet him but all I remember is the face.

Why are we even passing resolutions on Iran? Don't we have deficits, health care, energy, and an overstretched military to handle?

While the wisdom of any resolution in Congress on the matter is debatable, it is a matter of national concern particularly because we have those issues (particularly energy and an overstretched military) to handle, since the stability of the region impacts both of those, and is itself impacted by the results of what is now going on in Iran.

What could explain all the idiotic behavior by the Republicans?
How about: they have learned (at the feet and other lower spots) of the masters (Atwater, Gingrich and Rove) how to win elections. Unfortunately, none one member of that trio has/had any idea on what it actually takes to govern.
The result is that we end up with a group of incredibly incompetent legislators who are capable of running very good election campaigns (well, getting elected anyway), then pimp their votes out in Congress to get campaign contributions to finance their next electoral go-around.
Having "low information" voters doesn't help, either...