Posted on 03/11/2015 7:39:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) argued that unless a nuclear weapons deal with Iran gets the approval of Congress, the next president shouldn't be bound by that deal.
His statement, sent out to reporters on Tuesday evening, comes as Senate Republicans face strong blowback for sending a letter to Iran's leaders to try and undermine the Obama administration's negotiations with the country on a nuclear weapons deal.
TPM reached out to Walker's political organization, Our American Revival, asking for the governor's stance on the letter.
"Republicans need to ensure that any deal President Obama reaches with Iran receives congressional review," Walker said in the statement. "Unless the White House is prepared to submit the Iran deal it negotiates for congressional approval, the next president should not be bound [by] it. I will continue to express that concern publicly to the President and directly to the American people."
But the statement doesn't say, as TPM asked, if Walker supports the move by the Senate Republicans to send the letter or feels that it was out of bounds. Some Republicans, like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) have expressed support for the Republicans who signed the letter.
Others, like Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said the letter was not "constructive." Corker just happens to be the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), who, like Walker, has shown strong interest in running for president in 2016, also released a statement, saying only that the 47 senators "are reacting to reports of a bad deal that will likely enable Iran to become a nuclear state. They would not have been put in this position had the Administration consulted regularly with them rather than ignoring their input."
It's unclear from that statement as well if Bush thought it was a good idea to send the letter.
I know.
And to think that the point of my posting this (and other links in Post #1) was to show how the media is working to drive a wedge between us - by fishing for comments from candidates about other candidates or Republicans [while leaving Hillary alone in that regard].
One thing that you can always count on, is for the democrats having their MSM suck-asses frame the debate, and drive the narrative for them. And you can always count on the republicans and conservatives to take this as being mean, and backpedalling like mad, and then proceed to line up the circular firing squad.
Divide and conquer, alinsky tactics, they never seem to fail working when dealing with the right. All I can say is that the leftists and their GOPe lackeys will hand the right and the conservatives asses back to them if they
don’t get their crap together and learn how to deal with these scumbags.
No need to get too technical, based on precident, the next president can do any damn thing he wants.
I Support Walker
I Support Cruz
I Support Palin
I Support Sessions
I Support Pence
and if push comes to shove:
I Support Perry
I Support Rubio
I Support Jindal
I Support ANY Real Defense, Fiscal, Social Conservative
Good list. Very good.
I’d rank Jindal higher but feel either Walker and/or Cruz will outperform him on stage. If he runs, that is.
I actually think Bobby would be a great vp choice if Walker wins. He can be a wonk and an attack dog on the same day. If Cruz ran, I’d like to see walker or another Midwest governor as vp.
Once we have a real president, that person is obligated to revoke all administrative rulings issued by Obama, repeal all laws signed since January 20, 2009, reverse all regulations and international agreements from these eight terrible years, and to the best of his ability shrink FedGov back to its pre-2008 size. The next president is then obligated to shrink the bloated behemoth in DC down far enough that America’s enemies will need a generation or more to reimpose the damage that already existed before Bush left office.
I can think of an awful lot of people I’d rather have than Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, etc.
My local county engineer being among them. :>)
Unless it’s a treaty then future president’s aren’t legally bound by their predecessor’s executive agreements, any more than they are bound by their predecessor’s executive orders. Walker should know that.
I hope our state generated candidates pick it up fast on the in’s and out’s of the Constitution, as related to the rights and limitations of the three branches of government.
The executive branch has reduced the Congress to cat’s paw status, with a big assist from John Roberts and the Supreme Court rulings.
Which brings up another point....SC “rulings” are not actually LAW, correct? Or are they? This discussion was brought up during Robert’s injection into the OCare case, and went away. This question needs to be understood.
You can be sure Iran will follow the ‘deal’ to the letter. /s
Walker is the only one who has defeated democrats and at the same time passed conservative laws. Well Jindal too but he’s gotten beaten down by the liberal media and democrats here a few times. I’m in Louisiana but I’m more impressed with Walker and Walker’s leading the polls so:
Walker/Jindal
The article says that that was Walker’s point.
Scott Walker on Iran Nuke Deal.
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