Posted on 09/08/2015 11:44:08 AM PDT by conservativejoy
President Obama has earned enough Democratic votes in the Senate to filibuster a Senate effort to block the Iran nuclear deal, if necessary.
On Monday, Sens Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) , Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) , and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) announced their support for the deal, tallying enough votes to successfully filibuster the deal.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced his opposition to the deal in a surprise defection from Obama, citing Iran’s support of terrorism and the death of American soldiers.
“This regime has shown no signs that its deplorable behavior will change, and this deal does nothing to guarantee that behavior changes,” Manchin said.
Only three other Democratic senators voiced their opposition to the deal — Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ
, and Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WI)has not revealed how she would vote.
The news comes one day prior to an opposition rally against the deal at Congress featuring Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)96%, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, and Glenn Beck.
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They don’t care.
When Iran nukes the rest of us, these *ssclowns will all be deep in government shelters.
What about using Harry Reid’s “nuclear option”?
That is exactly what he should do. Unfortunately, Mitch has never shown any courage or initiative.
Wrong. Harry Reid got rid of it, then our spineless establishment Republicans rushed to reestablish it.
Well no, all he got rid of was the filibuster for Presidential appointments. He didn’t get rid of the entire filibuster. The only appointment he kept subject to the filibuster was SCOTUS.
1) Refuse to bring the bill up for a vote because Obama agreed to provide the terms of all side agreements and Obama has refused to comply with the terms of his mown agreement and is withholding and keeping secret the most critical deal terms central to the whole agreement
The Republicans are letting Obama cheat on the terms Obama himself set and obligated himself to comply with to get the bill up for a vote.
2) In order pass the Iran Nuclear Agreement between the Congress and the Obama Administration, the Senate had to invent a whole new type of legislation of dubious constitutionality that by design skirts the usual constitutional requirements.
The Republicans should have had the smarts to incorporate a clause in the Iran agreement to block what Reid is trying to do but that's water under the bridge.
It would be trivial for McConnell and the Senate Republicans to pass a narrow, one time rule that this non agreement agreement legislation is not subject to Filibuster to block Reid's attempt to block an up or down vote.
Call it the Tactical Low Yield Neutron Bomb Nuclear option targeted solely at the bad faith attempts of the Democrats to weasel out of their duties to follow through on the Iran agreement that they forced on the Republicans and the Country
3) Announce that the Obama Administration has acted in bad faith and lied to Congress and the American people about the terms and scope his true intent with the Iran agreement.
Tell the world that
1) Congressional Review has discovered that Obama has not complied with the terms of his own agreement and some of the most critical and important fundamental terms on enfacement and verification are undisclosed and will remain secret and hidden from Congress and the American People.
2) Although much of the deal Iran Deal terms are secret and will remain hidden from the American people, based on just what we know now about the the terms of the Iran agreement being forced upon the American people, President Obama has exceeded the authority granted by Congress under the frame work of existing special deal agreed upon By Congress and the Obama Admin.
The Iran deal as presented to Congress is massive over reach by Obama that extends the scope and parameters Iran into areas such as
a) providing Iran with Advanced Nuclear Technology
b) using the US military to defend Iran from attack by countries threatened by Iranian nuclear weapons.
c) perhaps worst of all, Obama has agreed to transfer American military grade cyber warfare technology and know how to Iran under the guise protecting Iran from virus attacks.
The military grade cyber warfare computer hardware and software security tools and the CIA/NSA level know how on offensive and defensive cyber warfare programming methods and system attack strategies and techniques will enable Iran to build a state of the art cyber warfare capability that allows them to defend against future American attacks and the tools and knowledge of America's cyber warfare system to allow them to compromise American data networks to spy on us and to better carry out a devastating cyber attack on America in the future using American know how to implement any such attack.
These and other over reaches in the agreement effectively elevate the Obama Iran deal to the level of a formal diplomatic treaty and must be treated as a formal Treaty between Iran and the United States.
This makes the existing Iran bill passed by Congress to approve Obama’s null and void and Congress must now start the approval process for the Obama Iran Deal as a Treaty and go through the full formal treaty approval process that includes a 2/3 vote of Congress to obtain approval.
Republicans in Congress can highlight why the Iran deal is so bad it seriously endangers the American people from terrorist and nuclear attacks by Iran
Congress should also make the case that the deal Obama negotiated is so bad for America that it almost gives the appearance that Obama was negotiating directly on behalf of Iran interests and against the interests and national security of the United States.
The Iran deal is so bad that even the majority of Congressional Democrats strongly oppose and condemn the deal and refuse to vote for it and those that are voting for it had to be arm twisted and paid off to do so.
Because of this bad faith move to undercut Congress President Obama has made sure his Iran Deal was approved by the rest of the world and economic and political sanctions against Iran are irrevocably lifted for the rest of the world except the United States, regardless of how Congress votes
The Obama Iran deal has little or no support from American voters and is extremely unpopular. A majority of voters overwhelmingly oppose Obama’s Iran deal and are desperately trying to tell their Congressional reps to kill the deal.
Given the level of passionate opposition to the Iran deal it's inexplicable why Republicans are acting so powerless to oppose the deal thither behavior rises to the level of passive aggressive collision to pass the bill to force this catastrophic agreement on the American people despite strong opposition by the majority of the voters.
Obamacare
Hmmm. I’d respond my friend but not sure what we’re talking about here. ; )
Didn’t Harry Reid use the Nuclear Option to push Obamacare through the Senate, or did they just deem it passed?
The bottom line, the Democrats haven’t played by the rules to get our nation in dire straights. The Republicans had better fight back the same way.
Once - if ever - things get fixed, then we can go back to the Senate Gentlemen rules.
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