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Endgame: Mikulski becomes 34th Senate Democrat to back Iran deal, ensuring GOP can’t stop it
Hot Air ^ | September 2, 2015 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 09/02/2015 8:57:13 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Thus ends a breathtaking performance of Republican failure theater. Once upon a time, knowing that your party controlled both chambers of Congress would have given you great comfort that a terrible treaty negotiated with a terrorist power could never become law in the United States.

I think this makes it official: I’m on the Trump bandwagon. Hail Caesar.

What’d the GOP get out of all this? What did their huge advantage in the House and their eight-seat majority in the Senate ultimately amount to in terms of concessions? It’s one thing to lose a momentous fight on foreign policy, ceding all of your constitutional leverage in the process, but if you can get some goodies for your side at least you can say it’s not a total loss. Unless I missed something, we got … nothing.

Not a thing — not even, in all likelihood, the right to crow and say that our resolution of disapproval passed the Senate with plenty of Democratic support. This fiasco will end with an essentially party-line vote on cloture, leaving Obama free to argue to the world that the deal has the acquiescence of the U.S.

here’s Dick Cheney wondering why Republicans ever agreed to treat this deal as something less than a treaty in the first place. Oh, by the way: Iran’s hardliners, the same people whom Barack Obama thinks are making “common cause” with Republicans, want you to know that nothing about this agreement has changed their conviction that the United States is indeed “the Great Satan” and that, if anything, they should go ahead and expand the reach of their ballistic missiles because of that.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Israel; US: Maryland; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 114th; 6ththread; barbaramikulski; deal; demoncrats; iran; iraniannukes; israel; lebanon; maryland; mikulski; obama; waronterror
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To: TBP

Sent note below to Sen. Coons & Mikulski...not that it will do any good but I have to try. Sick of Congress putting Party, themselves above our country!


“If you agree to the Iranian ‘deal’, how will you live with yourself in the event our great country suffers a direct or indirect attack by Iran where thousands are killed or maimed?
The ‘leaders’ of Iran are clear about their hate for America and Israel. They’ve clearly stated their intentions to destroy Israel. And, since they view America as the great Satan, what do you believe they intend for us?

The Democrat position that it’s either this ‘deal’ or war is fallacious and, Sen. Coons, I’m sure you know this. Sanctions have worked in the past, so why, suddenly, a ‘deal’ is our only option?

Isn’t it time for Senators and Representatives to do what is in the country’s best interests vs voting with ‘the Party’? What happened to patriotism?

Sen. Coons, I pray you will come to the conclusion that YOU are an American BEFORE you are a Democrat! Vote against the ‘deal’ with Iran.”


41 posted on 09/02/2015 10:00:11 AM PDT by 4integrity
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To: 4integrity

Even partisan Democrats should be disturbed by two things:

The fact that we’re obligated to protect Iran’s nukes against an Israeli attack, and

The fact that the Iranian regime is already making deals for weapons in violation of the agreement.

If those two pints don’t bother them, then they truly are anti-Semitic and unpatriotic (and pro-war.)


42 posted on 09/02/2015 10:09:18 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Hojczyk

How long before Ditch just cancels the vote?


43 posted on 09/02/2015 10:09:46 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: 4integrity

Send it to Cardin too.


44 posted on 09/02/2015 10:10:21 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Mikulski is allegedly Jewish. Go figure.


45 posted on 09/02/2015 10:12:48 AM PDT by BigEdLB (We need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' on Iranian bombing runs. It is not vituous)
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To: Hojczyk

OK then. Dems, you own this.


46 posted on 09/02/2015 10:19:17 AM PDT by keats5
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To: Hojczyk

Thanks a Barb, you lesbian dwarf. One of her last acts as a Senator. And a real lulu!


47 posted on 09/02/2015 10:21:14 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Flavious_Maximus
I hope the city that Bob Corker lives in will be the first to get hit with an Iranian Nuke and I hope he lives in Washington D.C.

Seconded!

48 posted on 09/02/2015 10:22:42 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Mikulski is retiring next year. I wonder what the one promised her.


49 posted on 09/02/2015 10:23:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Rummyfan
Maybe that specially-designed house Barb wants for her girlfriend and herself to spend their golden years in? It has no studs in the walls; the construction is all tongue-in-groove. BA-DA-BOOM!
50 posted on 09/02/2015 10:26:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Hojczyk

I wish Republicans had control of congress.


51 posted on 09/02/2015 10:33:54 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: Hojczyk

This will be found on the path to unavoidable Armageddon


52 posted on 09/02/2015 10:34:16 AM PDT by reviled downesdad (Mother Teresa on abortion: "It's poverty that children must die so people can live as they choose")
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To: Hojczyk

Of course they can stop it- they can deem it a treaty and reject it. Time to give Obama a taste of his own dishonesty.


53 posted on 09/02/2015 10:41:36 AM PDT by Ford4000
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To: bray

It’s not a treaty, but rather, an administrative agreement. See here:

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/03/10/treaties-vs-executive-agreements-when-does-congress-get-a-vote/

A number of Senators tried to amend the Corker bill, including an amendment that would have changed it to a treaty. It failed.


54 posted on 09/02/2015 10:41:41 AM PDT by Rolling Joe
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To: TBP

Thanks, will do. Couldn’t remember the 3rd name I heard this morning.
It’s impossible to understand how ANY of our elected Officials could agree to this ‘deal’.
Iran self-inspections???? What happened to us?? Sad and scary.


55 posted on 09/02/2015 10:56:38 AM PDT by 4integrity
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To: TBP

How about this. It will be also the members of congress children or grandchildren who will have to do the protecting Iran’s Nukes against any attacks. Wonder if they though of that?


56 posted on 09/02/2015 11:40:12 AM PDT by Don_Ret_USAF ("No Government can survive Without The Trust Of The People.")
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To: Hojczyk

The GOPE didn’t try.
The Republicrats are no different than the Demicans.
99.98% of elected officials currently in office are liars and thieves.
Just as a matter of interest; 100% of the corpse eaters who supposedly represent my area in congress and the senate are LIARS, THIEVES, and COMMUNIST QUEERS.


57 posted on 09/02/2015 12:03:09 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: jpsb
Please someone remind me why we must vote GOP?

So they can vote against it, and say, "gosh darn, too bad about that veto. We tried." wink wink.

After all, we are all rubes.

58 posted on 09/02/2015 12:20:46 PM PDT by Defiant (I will vote for the candidate that the GOPe and media hate the most.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Corker is from Chattanooga


59 posted on 09/02/2015 12:49:17 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Hojczyk

60 posted on 09/02/2015 12:51:20 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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