Posted on 10/19/2014 6:29:42 PM PDT by Perdogg
No one knows if the Obama administration will manage in the next five weeks to strike what many in the White House consider the most important foreign policy deal of his presidency: an accord with Iran that would forestall its ability to make a nuclear weapon. But the White House has made one significant decision: If agreement is reached, President Obama will do everything in his power to avoid letting Congress vote on it.
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So many cynics on this thread ... but lookee here: Iran has agreed to accept the suspension of sanctions. What a breathtaking concession. Probably only Obama could have talked them into that. Must've really gone to the mat. He deserves another Nobel Peace Prize.
But cynicism aside, this is the key. Does anyone know the complete legislative status? A 99-0 vote in the Senate doesn't mean anything unless the House also voted on sanctions, and the President signed a bill. Then there would be a legislative mandate which the president can't simply waive, absent waiver authority in the law. (Not that a law would stop Obama.) But if it was just a sense of the Senate resolution, and the sanctions were imposed by executive discretion under prior existing law, they could presumably also be removed by executive action.
I’m aware of some of the things you mentioned, and of course, know that Valerie Jarrett was raised in Iran. Valerie’s beliefs are not clear—she’s an out and out Commie, clearly—but her Muslim leanings are less clear.
The new and devious thing you’ve added is that the Khalid al Mansour link to Obama might have been a plant by a Shiite sympathizer. That’s deviousness of a high order, because it was done far in advance. The story appeared to emphasize questions of the degree of Obama’s Islamic sympathies and the involvement with his career.
Essentially what you are saying is that those questions would have come anyway, and the planted story was meant to misdirect perceptions of WHICH part of Islam Obama was most sympathetic to, at the short-term cost of highlighting the fact that there was an Islamic connection. That’s a one-level deeper deception.
Thanks for sharing...
That’s why he’s no making an example of Menendez
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