Dem doubletalk on patriotic dissent

President Obama’s powers never cease to amaze. He has made it suddenly fashionable to question others’ patriotism for dissenting on foreign policy, and has turned the Democrats — yes, the Democrats — into a presidential guard who respond with unthinking fury to skepticism about their leader’s claims to ever-expanding executive power.

This week, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and 46 other GOP senators signed an open letter to Iran’s political leadership. Their message, pertaining to the mullahs’ nuclear negotiations with the Obama administration, was very straightforward: Any deal they make with Obama that can’t pass muster in Congress will have a very short shelf-life — perhaps as short as Obama’s remaining 22 months in office.