In Impromptus today, I say plenty, but my fingers still itch, so I’d like to say a little more. Indulge me.

After those Senate Republicans signed their open letter to the Iranian government, President Obama said, “I think it’s somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners in Iran. It’s an unusual coalition.”

Here is what I say in my column:

In the final stage of the Cold War, I heard this constantly. American liberals always said, “Our own hard-liners and the hard-liners in the Soviet Union want to block progress on arms control” (or whatever it was — usually arms control). “Conservatives in America and conservatives in the Soviet Union are on the same page.”

And here is what I’d like to say in the Corner: In a debate with Mitt Romney, Obama had that oh-so-charming line “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” Well, Obama gives me a very 1980s feeling when he says that American conservatives make “common cause” with the “hard-liners” in a totalitarian state.

Maybe Romney could tell him to get more up-to-date?

One more thing, please: In January 1996, William Safire wrote a column headed “Blizzard of Lies.” It began,

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — Is a congenital liar.

“Congenital” is maybe not quite the right word (unusual for Safire). I think it is just something that has become habitual.