How the GOP Pretends Not to Authorize Obama’s Agenda

nationalreview.com ^ | 09/08/2015 | Andrew McCarthy

[ryan71]

In my weekend column I offered a concrete plan to undermine President Obama’s atrocious Iran deal. It is an easy one, because all that the Republican-controlled Congress has to do, if it really wants to derail this thing, is follow the law that they wrote and Obama signed, the Corker law — the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, sometimes also known as “Corker-Cardin,” after Senate sponsors Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D., Md.).

Sadly, in another iteration of the anger that is the wind beneath Donald Trump’s wings, many readers insist that GOP leadership has no intention to block Obama on Iran. If that is so, it is passing strange. The national-security threat here is grave. Plus, how much credibility can Republicans have (maybe I should just end the sentence there) in complaining about Obama’s disregard of federal law if they won’t even follow the law they themselves enacted just four months ago?

In my column I demonstrate that Obama has failed to comply with the crystal-clear conditions spelled out in the Corker law. This is indisputable. “Side deals” that the statute explicitly requires to be disclosed to Congress — involving, for example, IAEA inspection terms and Iran’s prior nuclear work — have been withheld. Moreover, not addressed in my column is yet another alarming side deal Obama has refused to disclose: one that shows the president is deceiving the public when he preposterously claims that sanctions will “snap back” if Iran is caught cheating. (I’ll have more to say about this in another post. For now, see this important Real Clear World report, particularly the subsection “Fallacious ‘Snapback’ Sanctions.”)

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423679/corker-cardin-congress-obama-iran-nuclear-deal

[Pelham]

bttt

[Paine in the Neck]

Votes for and against the Corker Capitulation^® to Iran

Began life as S.615. Later converted to H.1191.

In the House of Representatives;

In the Senate.

A cursory review of the rollcalls will show that the Corker Capitulation^® was passed virtually unanimously. Those now ostentatiously braying that they are against the Iran agreement are lying. They knew when they passed this bill that it would make stopping the Iran agreement impossible. They are hoping you only look at the final meaningless grandstanding kabuki vote and not look back to May when they did the real dirty deed.

[stanne]

Voters know the GOP. It’s why they are going for Trump. He knows them even better. He has to deal with their wimpy duplicity up close

If he turns out to be worse than they are but for different reasons ... Well what can we do? These guys are bad

[stephenjohnbanker]

A traitorous criminal resides in the WH.

Numerous traitorous criminals reside in the halls of Congress.

[Pelham]

I used to think comments like that were hyperbole.

Now they are speaking the truth.

[greyfoxx39]

Already posted.

HERE

[stephenjohnbanker]

“I used to think comments like that were hyperbole.”

Not long ago, it probably was hyperbole. Sadly, not today.

[ryan71]

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