Posted on 07/17/2015 10:18:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON - President Obama's dubious nuclear deal with Iran has begun an all-out political war in Congress that will have a huge, perhaps decisive, impact in the 2016 presidential election.
Immediately after an agreement had been struck to lift economic sanctions on the Islamic republic, GOP leaders were denouncing Iran's tissue-thin promises and plotting their strategy for the congressional battles to come.
And even House and Senate Democratic leaders were expressing grave reservations about the nuclear pact that, critics said, threatened the very survival of Israel and our other allies in the region.
Congress will have 60 days to review the deal after the White House sends the text of the agreement to Capitol Hill, and it will likely be submitted to a vote sometime in September after lawmakers return from the August recess.
Obama certainly expected Republicans to mount an all out offensive against a deal that made risky concessions to the Iranians. It calls for lifting the arms embargo within five years, dropping sanctions on its ballistic missiles in eight years, and lifting economic sanctions sooner than even Tehran had expected.
That's when Republican leaders came out on the streets with both guns blazing.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said that Obama's unquestioning defense of the pact, and its military concessions to Iran, showed he was "hopelessly disconnected from reality."
But even the White House must have been surprised by the response from high ranking Democratic leaders.
New York Rep. Eliot Engel, ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and one of Iran's chief critics, called the agreement "deeply troubling."
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, the third-ranking member of the Senate's leadership, is described as deeply torn over the issue and his decision could sway the votes of many Democratic fence-sitters.
"I intend to go through this agreement with a fine-tooth comb, speak with administration officials,and hear from experts on all sides," he said in a statement Wednesday.
"Supporting or opposing this agreement is not a decision to be made lightly, and I plan to carefully study the agreement before making an informed decision,"he said.
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, the former top ranked Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said he was flat out against the deal.
"We're basically legitimizing Iran's nuclear program," he said.
Obama has said that if the Republican-run Congress sends him a resolution of disapproval, he will veto it, and earlier this week it seemed unlikely the GOP could muster the two-thirds vote to override his veto.
But if Schumer comes out against the agreement, he will sway enough Democrats to make that a possibility. With every Republican voting no, he would need only 12 Democrats to join him in upholding a vote of disapproval.
The House, with a large GOP majority, is considered more likely to follow suit.
Whatever happens in the forthcoming fight over the Iran nuclear deal, it is sure to become a major issue in the 2016 elections -- one that would work in the GOP's favor.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other Jewish organizations are planning to mount a massive lobbying campaign among swing Democrats on this one issue. That could spell deep trouble for Hillary Clinton, her party's frontrunner for the presidential nomination, who has given her full support to the Iran deal.
"I support this agreement because I believe it is the most effective path of all the alternatives available to the U.S. and our partners to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon," she said this week.
But Clinton may find that once the debate over the Iran deal gets underway, significant parts of her base, Jewish voters and swing Democrats, could turn against her.
While a majority may support the agreement now, that may not hold up for long when the dirty little details of the pact flood the TV airwaves.
And that's going to work in the GOP's favor and against Clinton and the Democrats.
A Monmouth University poll released Tuesday found 55 percent of those surveyed said they didn't trust Iran "at all" to begin to dismantle its nuclear program, curb its facilities and allow unimpeded inspections.
In February, 70 percent of Americans in a CBS poll said they considered Iran to be either an "enemy" or at least "unfriendly" toward the U.S.
"That skepticism stands in stark contrast to the optimism expressed by President Obama announcing the deal Tuesday morning," writes Washington Post polling analyst Scott Clement.
" Americans are clearly more skeptical about the meaning of a deal, and will likely be sympathetic to arguments that the deal does not do enough to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons," Clement writes.
Americans have a healthy dose of skepticism about the promises they hear from Washington and its political class, especially from Obama who has lied to us one too many times, or at least embellished the facts.
Obama's shaky deal with Tehran's government, where truth is always a moving target, is going to take a beating
in the months to come, in the House and Senate hearings, the floor debate, the TV ads and the presidential campaign debates that will soon descend upon us.
And while we're experiencing all of the political claims and counter claims, remember this: If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.
Complete lost of touch with the American people.
Naiveté has nothing to do with it.
That's when Republican leaders came out on the streets with both guns blazing
Talk about Kabuki theater - if these assholes didnt pass the Corker bill - America and the rest of the world would be safer. The sad thing is - most of America believes that there will be a real showdown, with Obama winning a close, hard fought battle.
Naive??? No, TRAITOROUS!!
Well he’s a muscum and she was kissing arafathead’s wife.
These entities control billions of dollars.
Obama is gearing up to cash in bigtime ala the Clintons---through his two Obama foundations (two that we know of). He needs two foundations to handle all the tax-free money about to troll in. ...from six-figure honoraria, multi-million dollar donations, lucrative consultancies and insider business deals.
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OBAMA'S SISTER IS A BOARD MEMBER OF HIS CHICAGO FOUNDATION
Maya Soetoro-Ng is President Obama’s sister and a specialist for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace. She is the co-founder of Our Public School, a non-profit that connects schools to their communities, and the co-creator of Ceeds of Peace, a peace education program that has been implemented in schools and communities around Hawaii.
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OBAMA's HALF-BROTHER HEADS THE SECOND FOUNDATION
Kenya-resident, Malik Obama in Muslim dress, holds up
photo of his half brother Obama in Muslim dress, taken
during an earlier visit.
MORE HERE http://shoebat.com/shoebat-foundation/obamas-wahhabist-fundraising-empire
BACKSTORY---The Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF) is run by Malik (in Kenya)---to honor Malik and Obama's late dad. It was fast-tracked by Lois Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status.
The BHOF is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.
As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave the Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......which it stupidly never applied for.
To get tax-exempt status, the foundation cooked-up a mission statement: “to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond.” Its guiding principle is “the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.”
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesn’t seem to have done much. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building an imam’s house as well as some “proposed latrines,” but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to “mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance,” as the site says.
Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporter’s passport and govt ID, along with a description of the article’s “motivation” and “slant.”
Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organization’s voicemail and were not returned.
Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, and the Current Occupant now squatting in the White, er, “Rainbow” Hut are not naive.
They know very well the objective they want, but are probably using the clumsiest way possible to achieve it. It is no longer merely enough for the Islamic jihadists to achieve “parity” with their counterparts in the non-Muslim world, they have to be elevated to a more exalted position over much more of the world.
And the territory once known as “the United States of America” is ripe for Islamic colonization.
Genocide and “re-education” camps cannot be far away now.
Now we know Amwricans have been buying guns the last couple of years now.
Hillary and Obama thought the Arab Spring would be a ‘good thing’ too - NOT a view shared by Republicans...
No body believes “While Obama and Hillary Remain Naively Optimistic”.
Obama <==== Valerie Jarrett
Hillary <==== Huma
Baraq isn’t naive. He’s evil.
Should Read:
Americans Distrust Iran, While Obama and Hillary Remain Very Happy With Large Deposits Made To Their Undisclosed Bank Accounts
Naive + evil = Naivevil
If they are going to hijack the language, might as well provide a few new words.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Who?
Amwricans have been buying guns the last couple of years now.
Just for the last couple of years?
Honestly, are you able to dress and feed yourself?
Might there be a county facility in your area equipped to house you?
Was using cell phone at the time. My bad. :)
No one has perfect spelling. No one.
Years and years worth of ignorance isn't a spelling mistake.
It's a clear indicator of terminal ignorance and stupidity.
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