Virtually everyone is missing the point with regard to the open letter to the leaders of Iran signed by 47 Republican Senators.  Democrats responded quickly by literally accusing Republicans of treason. Actually, if you want an example of treason look at John Kerry’s visit to Paris to meet with our enemies during the Vietnam War.  Or check out Ted Kennedy communicating with leaders in the Soviet Union to block Ronald Reagan from negotiating a nuclear weapons treaty.  That is what treason looks like.  The letter may or may have not been a great idea from a political standpoint, but it is absurd to call it treason.

But ultimately none of that even matters.  The important thing is that, once again, the Obama administration failed to even recognize an opportunity.  Anyone who has ever watched a police show knows the good cop, bad cop routine.  The bad cop acts like an out of control maniac.  The good cop intervenes and offers to help.  The good cop is far more dangerous for the suspect than the bad cop.  We see this technique all the time because police use it all the time.  Police use it all the time because it works.

That letter set up the Obama administration to use the “good cop, bad cop routine.”  They could have used it during negotiations with Iran by pointing out that Obama had to sell any deal to a skeptical congress or it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.  He could have done that, but instead he was too self-absorbed to notice or too arrogant to care.  Instead of using the letter as leverage, Obama hysterically tried to pretend that congress doesn’t even exist.  So, instead of good cop, bad cop, we ended up with dumb cop.

This would almost be funny, except that this unforced error has the potential to set up a nuclear holocaust.  The dumb cop is not very amusing when there is this much at stake.

TDM