GROWN-UPS – AT 8:53 A.M. ET:   There actually are grown-ups in the Democratic Party.  Yes, I know, they've been put on the endangered species list, and are not even welcome in the party.  But they do exist.  And, increasingly, they are wondering about the foreign policy being pursued by the Democrat in the White House.  From the Washington Post: 

For more than two years, a breach has been opening between President Obama and the foreign policy establishment of the Democratic Party. Last week, as Russia pressed a new offensive in Ukraine and the Senate debated sanctions on Iran, it cracked open a little wider.

First came the introduction in the Senate, and lopsided passage by the Banking Committee, of a bill that would place new sanctions on Iran if no agreement limits its nuclear program by June. Though fiercely opposed by Obama, the measure, co-sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.), the senior Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, had won the express support of 13 other Democratic senators by the end of the week. A letter signed by Menendez plus nine of them pledged to delay a final floor vote until March 24, the deadline set by the administration for finalizing the framework of a bargain.

While that postponement avoided an immediate confrontation with Obama, the larger message of the senators was clear: They are “deeply skeptical,” said the letter, that Obama will obtain adequate concessions from Tehran — despite what has been an increasingly single-minded diplomatic push.

At week’s end came another de facto vote of no confidence: a report by eight foreign policy luminaries, due to be formally released Monday, saying the president should “immediately change” his policy of refusing to supply Ukraine with weapons to defend its besieged eastern provinces. “Washington,” it said bluntly, has “not devoted sufficient attention to the threat posed by Russia and its implications for Western security. This must change.”

COMMENT:  It probably won't change.  Maybe people in his own party are finally realizing who Barack Obama really is.  He is a leftist, with sympathy for the third world and for socialism.  He is our first truly leftist (as opposed to liberal) president.  He intends to leave a leftist legacy.

Remember that, just before the 2012 election, Obama was caught on an open mike assuring the Russian foreign minister that he'd have more flexibility after the election.  It was an admission that he was lying to the American people about his foreign-policy views, and would shift his positions when he was no longer politically vulnerable.  A comment like that should have cost Obama the election.  It did not.  It was covered up by the press and quickly forgotten.  And we are paying the price.

Read the whole piece.  It's very revealing.

February 2, 2015