We cannot exist without you.
Posted on 09/02/2015 3:50:44 PM PDT by Hojczyk
It is worth repeating that Republicans rationalized this abdication of their duty to use their constitutional powers to block Obama’s empowerment of America’s sworn enemies by claiming that the legislation ensured that Congress would get to review the deal. This, of course, was always preposterous:
(a) Congress has many tools – the power of the purse, the ability to block Obama appointments and legislative priorities, the power to conduct oversight hearings, the capacity to raise public alarm in media coverage – that could have pressured Obama to reveal the deal’s terms;
(b) there is no coup in forcing the administration to be transparent if the price tag is forfeiting Congress’s constitutional power to reject the deal under the regular rules of treaty review (under which the president must convince 67 senators, not 34, to support the deal) or legislation (under which the president must convince majorities of both houses); and
(c) the Senate’s treaty power does not depend on the president’s cooperation – it comes from the Constitution, and the Senate could have treated the deal (and it still can) as a treaty even if Obama refuses to submit it as such.
Leaving all that aside, though, it is as noteworthy as it was predictable that the Congress never got what Republicans promised the public it would get: full disclosure of Obama’s Iran deal.
Knowing that the inspection and verification provisions of the deal are a joke that could not withstand scrutiny, Obama shrewdly arranged for them to be tucked into what has been portrayed as a secret deal between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Obama and the IAEA have told Congress to buzz off: lawmakers are not permitted to review that purportedly private Iran-IAEA arrangement because that would “compromise the IAEA’s integrity.”
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no words
The Republican Party needs to be fired mostly and the Democrat one with all the socialist and communist needs to die out IMO.
Genesis 12 (NIV)
The Call of Abram
12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2
“I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3
I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
I hope we in TN vote him out in 2016 but I fear he will win big. We have way too many RINO’s in the state.
My mistake, he won reelection in 2012 then Lamar! in 2014. We are screwed.
99-1, Only Cotton voted against.
Beyond disgusting abdication of duty and country.
For the Republic to survive, the GOP must die.
GOP-RIP
There once was a Constitution,
GUTTED forever by Obama and Boehner and McConnell.
The repubes were to cowardly to stand up and fight this Iran deal this close to the election. They feared a media gang up on them, so they purposefully concocted this Corker bill for cover. It ain’t our fault. Geesh they make me sick.
They most likely wanted the dems to take all the heat for it passing. Now they can go out and cry and whine about the horrible deal the dems passed and use it for election purposes.
The traitore dems are happy as pigs in sheet because they don’t care about America or Israel.
The devious and scummy repubes abdicated their duty to the American people to stand up against the treachery of Obama.
What a cowardly and shameful bunch of cretins. These bastards don’t deserve to win a damn thing.
to=too, Wish I could change it.
And yet they wonder why the base despises them!
Corker bill or no Corker bill, Obama’s “Iran deal” is not a treaty, therefore is not binding on the States, has only the force and effect he gives it through executive action, and will end on January 20, 2017.
The Congress and the President cannot amend the Constitution by legislation.
“For the Republic to survive, the GOP must die.
GOP-RIP”
Trump is not our candidate. He’s our murder weapon.
When Iran attacks Israel, what do these politicians on record helping Iran think should happen to them?
According to McCarthy there are still some actions that may be taken by the republicans..
WELL, THEY HAD BETTER DO SOMETHING, FORTHWITH.
The fact that he is holding this anti-Iran rally is about as hypocritical as it can be.
If he's so brilliant he must have known how devastating this could be to Israel. The man is an outright fraud of the highest order.
What he did by signing that bill is sacrilege in my opinion.
“There once was a Constitution,
GUTTED forever by Obama and Boehner and McConnell.”
This is all anyone needs to read on this thread.
But by then Iran will have gotten the $150 billion which is currently frozen.
The money is what Iran is after in the deal. They'll continue building nukes, deal or no deal.
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