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Posted on 04/17/2015 3:21:25 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
I've received several inquiries asking me to spell out some implications of this week's editorial. Here goes:
1) No deal is better than a bad Iran deal. And a bad Iran deal is not just a foreign policy setback. It's a foreign policy disaster.
2) The administration is heading toward a bad deal (see Kissinger-Schultz, and now even James Baker).
3) The Corker bill only helps, if it does, after a deal has been signed—and then 67 votes in the Senate and 290 in the House are needed to overturn a deal. That's unlikely. And a lot of damage in the region (just from signing the deal) will have been done. So Congress can't pass the Corker bill and feel it's done its duty.
4) To the contrary, Congress has to spend the next weeks and months urgently raising questions, demanding clarifications, requesting reports, and trying to insist on various conditions for a deal. Even if such legislation doesn't become law, it can make a bad deal more difficult for the administration to achieve (perhaps by inducing the Iranians to walk away), or to sell to Congress and the public.
5) The best way to defeat a bad deal is to prevent one. Prevention means, for the time being, questioning and challenging and obstructing. And delay is now our friend.
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If the Corker bill helps, why did Barbara Boxer vote for it? The Barbara Boxer Axiom is as follows: if Barbara Boxer votes for a bill, it sucks.
Pointless, the only thing we need to know
ANY republican candidate who makes it for nomination should stand before the American public and declare “It is my intention to fundamentally change this country........... Back to what it USED TO BE- back when life was good, back before big government intruded on everyone’s lives, back before big government began stealing your hard earned money by enacting tax after tax after tax, back before all this unscientific nonsense about man being responsible for climate change began... etc etc etc”
I had thought it did go to the full Sinate, but have not yet seen the voting list.
That being the case, when might it come to the full Sinate?
I think you are right. The Corker bill passed the committee unanimously. I assume the fix is in and it will pass the Senate. It should have been voted on as a treaty requiring 67 votes to pass. The Republicans really screwed up. Now if 0bama vetoes the Republicans need 67 votes to overturn the veto. The Republicans got it upside down.
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