Posted on 08/06/2015 1:26:45 PM PDT by i88schwartz
JOSH EARNEST, THE WHITE HOUSE: Not at all. And let me tell you why. The fact is we don't need Congress to approve this deal. We just need Congress not to screw it up. So, Congress has an opportunity to play spoiler right now and if they fail in that effort this deal will move forward. It will be implemented. And we will have taken the most important step we can -- the best step we can -- to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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The Constitution is dead. Long live the Constitution!
I’ll be sending my congreeman a note demanding an answer to this.
Outrageous!
Norton II knows best.
What a little pissant this guy is.
Not Iran so much.
What else could this idiot say. He is just another Obama puppet.
Earnest goes to Washington.
Article I, Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power
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To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations,
Article II, Section. 2.
The President
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shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;
Normally, a treaty needs 60% of the Senate, but Corker agreed to change the rules so it could get through with 50% and would need a 67% to override O’s veto.
If the Democrats had any balls, they’d assert their Constitutional powers....
Heck, same for the Republicans.
Congress is being steamrolled by a modern day fascist....willingly bending over.
A treaty needs 2/3 of the Senate to vote for it (67 votes).
Josh Earnest is a POS as is him employer.
They are both law-breaking excrement!
Any Republican who acted like this would be burned alive.
GOP needs to hire Putin
If this 'deal' is implemented then it will be prudent to go long oil and long gold!
Need to drag Josh Earnest around the parking lot.
Called my Congresscritters as well—all Dems.
This is outrageous.
I told them that Josh Earnest saying this means the White House doesn’t care what the vote is, this deal is going forward.
So, who needs Congressmen and Senators?
This deal is an “agreement” and not a treaty! That is how the evil bastard in the White hut does things. He thumbs his nose at the Constitution and gives us the finger with the other hand!
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