Posted on 05/09/2018 10:01:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If your "signature achievements" are done by executive power alone, they might as well be written in pencil.
Say what you will about Donald Trump pulling the United States out of the Iran deal. Personally, I wish the United States had stayed in. But this sort of zig-zag is exactly what happens when you end up governing with your pen and your phone, as Barack Obama did.
Faced with a recalcitrant, obstructionist Republican Congress that he helped bring to power two years into his presidency, Obama increasingly gave up on getting congressional approval for anything: military actions, immigration policy, trade policy, net neutrality, environmental regulations. Instead, as Damon Root wrote a few years back, Obama did exactly what he once had criticized his predecessor for and went full Andrew Jackson.
Well, you live by the pen and you die by the pen, and so DACA, the Paris Accords, and the Iran deal (routinely described as "one of President Barack Obama's signature foreign policy achievements") are down the tubes.
If Obama had tried to negotiate the Iran deal as a treaty, rather than an agreement, he would have needed the Senate to sign off on it. Same thing with U.S. involvement in the Paris Accords and a bunch of other "signature achievements."
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Let’s demand that Zero and the RATs pay back the billions they gave to Iran that was stolen from the US taxpayers in the middle of the night. American patriots killed and permanently injured via Iranian terrorism should sue Obama and the RAT Party for their suffering. Zero and the RATs including the gutter slime, Kerry, enabled the terrorism that harmed our military.
A nuclear deal besides.
Personally, I wish the United States had stayed in.
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Typical libertarian response.
Obama is such a fraud.
Constantly touting signature pigments of his imagination...
The author seems internally confused and conflicted, but does manage to observe that deals made only with a President are only good while he’s in Office.
Yep, erase Obama from the painting.
The bushes and chair can stay.
I LOVE that. Now if we could just get OBAMACARE PERMANENTLY ERASED!!!!!!
Obama and his signature figments...
AMEN!
Great political cartoon.
5.56mm
Everyone was sure Hillary would win after all.
yep never understood that plane full of cash, actual currency of many nations being sent to Iran.
I always wonder, how much of that cash was skimmed off by dudes who drive trucks and forklifts at the airport, and how much of the cash actually ended up in the bank account of the Treasury of Iran.
Obama open mic slip: 'After my election I have more flexibility'Patriots not only need to reconsider the 17th and 22nd Amendments, but they need to make sure that Congress is willing to impeach and remove corrupt presidents.
The Constitution is there to make sure that whacky, harmful policies don't get deployed. If Obama had tried, in good faith, to negotiate a meaningful treaty, he might have been surprised at the Senate response. The trouble is that by the time the Iran deal was struck, Obama had spent any political capital he had and lost any remaining goodwill.
He would almost have certainly gotten nowhere with a Republican opposition whose "top priority" was, according to "Cocaine Mitch" McConnell, making Obama "a one-term president."
And there is the bias for all to see.
-PJ
It’s fitting that a Fake President signed this Fake Deal. Rush revealed today that Obama signed the deal, but the Iranians didn’t! No doubt, Valerie Jarrett told him that’s an old Iranian custom.
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Iran Deal = Payment for Pizza...................
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