Posted on 07/14/2015 7:49:35 AM PDT by MN_Mike
As currently written, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 would first require Congress to pass a resolution of disapproval and then require Congress to muster votes from two-thirds of each chamber to override a Presidential veto. What's more, if Congress failed to act within a set timeframe, the deal would go into effect by default. This process gets the Constitution's allocation of authority precisely backwards.
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I thought that only Congress could ratify treaties, not the President.
Blame the whole Republican Party. McConnell and Boehner are still in leadership roles. In both chambers, enough people were elected as constitutional conservatives to stop that from happening.
Why did Cruz etc wait till after it was agreed upon to do this?
The GOP has to have the balls to stand in the way of the political inertia of this disaster to begin with.
It should have been recognized as a Treaty rather than a “deal”.
McConnell and Boehner will fight this. They have repeatedly colluded with the Democrats. They Have Given Us Zero Representation. They crossed over. They have been to the bathhouse with Obama and they’re not coming back.
A lot of Republicans supported McConnell. Hell, he won big. Many of us were fooled again.
What kills me is that McConnell, Boehner, and company are so openly in the bag with Obama at this point. It seems like it is fashionable to be a traitor amongst our Republican leaders.
Not with this dictator King. He crushed both the House and Senate and if they do not cooperate he will regulate using committees.
I'll have to think about whether or not this is a treaty. I'm thinking things like ABM traty, non-proliferation treaty, NAFTA, etc, where there is some bilateral dealing.
Compared with the no-fly zone (around Iraq) and other activities that are a show of military force and will.
That said, the legislation to allow the president to act in a "persistent" way, on 35% approval in Congress, was really stupid.
Problem being that McConnell and his minions negated the treaty in favor of an executive agreement
Too broad a brush. Give credit where it is due. Toomey and Cruz tried to make an amendment to rectify the situation.
They didn’t.
The Corker deal was already accepted beforehand. Cruz voted against the initial Corker deal too.
They didn’t.
The Corker deal was already accepted beforehand. Cruz voted against the initial Corker deal too.
Obama was going to unilaterally work the sanctions down as a trade deal with executive action if he was not given a compromise on how to push a treaty through the Senate. McConnell caved with conservatives opposing the legislative deal six months ago.
Not the entire world. Certainly not grassroot conservatives, the Israelis and sunni middle east countries
It is a executive agreement. McConnell and Corker nixed the treaty.
BBC is celebrating the Deal and Praising Obama ,LOL the BBC Idiot from New Brunswick , Canada ,Lyse Doucet is all giggly
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