They don’t need to say treaty. It’s a monkey wrench they’ve thrown at Obama, with the choice of the word monkey having nothing to do with Obama’s race.
The WH does not see this as a treaty. All the Republicans are saying is this agreement (or pact, or whatever it actually is) can be undone by the next president. But if a Dem is president, it won’t be undone. I’m not sure a Republican president will either. How often do you see anything ever reversed?
So the Pubbies are engaging in wishful thinking again. They know they are not going to do anything about it but once again, they are posturing to give the base the impression they are fighting this. Like everything else, they will relent and cave. The GOP is simply not a serious party.
If you were Obama, why would you care what the GOP says? The party is weakness personified; its all bark and no bite. The party has no credibility at all.