Posted on 04/05/2015 9:03:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said he has strong bipartisan support and is close to the 67 senator needed to override President Barack Obama’s veto on his bill that gives Congress the chance to approve the nuclear deal with Iran.
Corker said, “On behalf of the American people Congress needs the to be playing a role.”
When host Chris Wallace asked, “The White House has said that the president would veto the kind of legislation you’re proposing. If he does, you don’t need 51 votes or even 60 votes, you need 67 votes which means 13 Democrats to override his veto. Do you have 67 votes? ”
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The Democrats will RUN back to Obama
We will see which Dems love their country and which simply want to maintain their power. Menendez is a powerful indicator of what the Obama Admin does to their ‘traitors’. Senate Dems ‘do you love your country”???
The indictment of Menendez was an Obama shot across the bow!
Close to 67 doesn’t count: Obama will prevail with the backing of his public.
2/3 is needed to approve a treaty. Anything else is nonsense.
OK so say the Senate gets 67 votes and passes the bill that allows Congress to OK the Iran deal. Obama vetoes it and the Senate overrides it. The Senate then disapproves the deal. Then what?
Foolish nattering.
“Obama” has no authority to bind the States to arrangements he makes with foreign powers (that’s why 2/3 of the States’ representatives have to advise and consent to it).
His absurd claims to authority should be ignored.
Being closer to a veto-proof Senate also means being closer to a removing a House-impeached Obama from office.
Did I say a House-impeached Obama?
Forget it.
A treaty is any agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as an (international) agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, pact, or exchange of letters, among other terms.
It appears Obama will once again attempt to use "prosecutorial discretion" to do as he pleases.
Congress doesn’t need to pass a law allowing them to approve of O’s fake treaty.
They are given that right in the Constitution.
Until they approve it, its a fake treaty.
O is a gay Hugo Chavez. And congress insists on acting like his even gayer toadies.
Then what? My guess is the Iranians will continue their development process and build a bomb. One of the mullahs will launch it and quickly learn 2,000 feet isn’t enough altitude. With any luck it’ll air burst over Tehran making the international sanctions a moot point.
It is an unnecessary vote in any event because the president can't make an enforceable without 2/3 senate approval anyway. I guess this is a vote just in-case he thinks he doesn't need the senate approval? But if he doesn't think he need the senate approval anyway what difference does it make? It appears that we no longer have a functioning Republic. If dip-wad attempts to have the UN approve it without getting congress to agree with our non-veto of the measure then congress could withhold all US funds to the UN. Without our money the UN won't function long.
As far as "then what", who cares, no deal is better that the deal that Kerry/Obama negotiated.
Its about time those feckless quislings stepped up and I mean even Democrats.
Cowards in the Senate will betray us again.
This sounds like a sleight of hand. They fail to get 2/3 to “over-ride” the treaty so the treaty is treated as binding.
So while the GOP acts like they are fighting O, they are actually enabling him. “We tried, we gave it our best...”
When in actual fact without their approval there is no treaty.
So frustrating that every President has been lame duck during their final two years and this second worst president we ever had after Carter is getting everything he wants and that is with a Republican Congress. So not right or fair....yes life isn’t fair but with Obama????
Once upon a time it took 2/3rds of the Senate to approve a treaty, but in our lawless time it takes 2/3rds to disapprove one
Ideally, the sanctions that were relaxed for the purpose of negotiations would be re-imposed, and the additional sanctions that were associated with Kirk-Menendez would be imposed.
Ideally, all this would force Iran to consent to a deal that meets with the approval of Likudnik Jews, NeoCon Republicans, Liberal Interventionist democrats, and AIPAC.
For example, Iran would consent to getting rid of all their centrifuges, and buying all their nuclear fuel. Which means they could never enrich to weapons grade.
But, even if all that worked, there is no longer anyone to negotiate with Iran, because Congress has taken that authority away from the prez. Which means that Congress has to negotiate with Iran.
That's all Ideally. Nobody knows if the members of P5 plus one will go along, or the rest of the world will go along.
It takes only one country or one set of investors wanting into Iran to break the sanctions, in which case, a cascade will follow and all you have left is Unilateral US sanctions and the only investors not allowed into Iran are US investors. One of the benefits to Obama's deal would have been US investors at the head of the line, getting in first.
We’ll see how many of the JEWISH Senators support the Obama/Iran deal to DESTROY Israel.
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