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Senator Mark Kirk: Congress Will Not Support ‘Obama-Khamenei’ Nuclear Deal
Algemeiner ^ | October 20, 2014 5:10 pm

Posted on 10/21/2014 10:50:39 AM PDT by Dave346

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Good to see Congress finally growing a spine, but where were they a year ago on this?
1 posted on 10/21/2014 10:50:39 AM PDT by Dave346
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Obama will bypass Congress and they will do nothing.


2 posted on 10/21/2014 10:53:36 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Dave346

Zero will say that any deal he reaches with Iran will preclude nuclear weapons, knowing full well that the opposite is true. He’ll simply lie, repeating it loudly and often.


3 posted on 10/21/2014 10:53:51 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Take the chip and let them hack your brain.)
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To: Dave346

Pfft.....Eboma don’t need no stinkin’ congress.


4 posted on 10/21/2014 10:56:26 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Dave346

I don’t think it matters what the U.S. does or doesn’t do, Israel’s not going to tolerate a nuclear Iran. Perhaps Israel is just waiting for the Muslim to leave the White House before they make their big move.


5 posted on 10/21/2014 11:16:25 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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I seriously doubt Israel can wait another 27 months.

On the other hand it amazes me they’ve waited as many years as they have already, so who knows?


6 posted on 10/21/2014 11:21:46 AM PDT by Dave346
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I don’t think Congress will have a choice in the matter. It will be presented as a fait accompli and all pursuant laws, regulations and relationships will reflect it no matter how Congress grumbles, and grumbling and whining is ALL that Congress will do. Thus far the military has presented the sole opposition to the Sultan but the military can’t save us. If the military tried the result would present its own problems, win or lose.


7 posted on 10/21/2014 11:22:34 AM PDT by arthurus
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Kirk is a joke. He is one of the worst RINOs in the Senate, imo. Worse than Miss Graham.


8 posted on 10/21/2014 11:23:11 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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If Kirk, a RINO, is speaking up, this is something the Senate will kill.


9 posted on 10/21/2014 11:24:17 AM PDT by KC Burke (Gowdy for Supreme Court)
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The Obama US can prevent Israel from doing the necessary deed. It can cut off all resupply so that even if Israel successfully takes out the Iran nuclear capacity it will have no resources left to defend itself against its near neighbors. Unless the Israeli strike is nuclear. Then there is a real question of how the ObaUS will react to that. If Israel can take out the Irani Nuke sites then maybe Israel can take out DC, too. Would the Sultan in Washington be cool with that? Could be, if he has taken that into consideration and stays out of DC. Obama would like to see the USA severely weakened or even destroyed, and he really doesn’t care who does it. Without the USA backstop for Israel, even nukes won’t make Israel invulnerable to the Mohammedan horde.


10 posted on 10/21/2014 11:28:34 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: 17th Miss Regt

That’s exactly what the whole problem here is. It’s not Obama, the guy is an enemy of the United States. That fact is firmly established. The problem is Congress that does absolutely nothing about it.


11 posted on 10/21/2014 11:50:30 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: Dave346
When it comes to how and whether a law is enforced, a POTUS can do whatever he pleases.

No court, not even the USSC can stop him.

Congress was given the exclusive power to remove him, but cannot force him to act in any particular fashion.

The only good news with this Iran thing is, once Obama is out of office any deal he struck is null and void.

And the Congress and GOP should announce that from every rooftop.

12 posted on 10/21/2014 11:51:34 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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“A leading United States senator has warned that the Obama Administration is heading for confrontation with Congress over its refusal, as reported by the New York Times, to allow congressional approval of a final nuclear deal with Iran.”

And what are they going to do if he does it? Other than
get back up after getting pimp slapped to their knees by the
Obama, absolutely nothing. Oh they will probably sit on
their hands flap their arms and cluck like chickens but
that will be it. The same with his amnesty plan. They are
spineless and they think talking tough will give them one.
That is if they can drag themselves away from playing jump rope
and hopscotch.


13 posted on 10/21/2014 12:14:11 PM PDT by Slambat
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Thenherpo of benghazi will proclaim the agreement is not a treaty.

Israel will piss and moan.

Issa will hold another hearing.

A repub member will proclaim that the Hero of benghazi is doing something illegal.

A leader of the house or senate will proclaim that they can’t impeach the resident.

Another scandal/disaster, which eclipses the previous ones, will emerge.


14 posted on 10/21/2014 12:18:07 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: SoFloFreeper
Kirk is a joke. He is one of the worst RINOs in the Senate, imo. Worse than Miss Graham.

Yep.

15 posted on 10/21/2014 12:22:20 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Eccl 12 V.13)
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To: Dave346

Actually Obama doesn’t really care. Hopefully we get the Senate so the SOB will have to care.


16 posted on 10/21/2014 12:25:39 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: morphing libertarian

And a whole raft of Freepers will scream and holler for us to elect more RINOs to keep that all going. Like they do now. No matter what. Because dems are worse. And stuff.


17 posted on 10/21/2014 12:56:34 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
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"but where were they a year ago on this"

Last Dec(2013) Kirk and Menendez had their bill that designated a list of additional sanctions that would be imposed on Iran if the negotiations were to fall thru. This was a very big deal at the time, and many said that if the legislation passed, it would undermine the negotiations.

The NeoCons, led by Kirk(who some designate a RINO) and the Liberal Interventionists, led by Menendez, had 58 cosigners on the legislation and it was rumored that they would get 61 votes on cloture. AIPAC supported.

The Realists, led by republican Corker and democrat Feinstein were opposed. The Isolationists also opposed and were led by Rand Paul. The antiwar dems were also opposed. J Street opposed.

Because of the opposition, Reid would not let the legislation onto the floor without an amendment to soften the language.

They spent a couple of months fighting over the amendment until AIPAC dropped their support and it all died.

People need to realize that there is a possibility that P5 plus 1 may become dis-unified over this. If Kirk and Menendez are displeased with the outcome of the negotiations and want to re-instate sanctions, there is no guarantee that China and/or others would go along.

18 posted on 10/21/2014 1:07:45 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Mariner
When it comes to how and whether a law is enforced, a POTUS can do whatever he pleases.

The Constitution gives the President responsibility and authority to enforce the laws of the US. No one else. Congress can remove a president who fails to enforce the laws. That would be a "high crime".

19 posted on 10/21/2014 1:28:41 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Americans are led by a failed president. God save America.)
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To: Dave346
In the space of a week, Obama referred publicly to it on two occasions.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/iranian-nuclear-fatwa-cited-obama-may-not-exist

“The supreme leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons,” he said during his address at the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 24.

“Iran’s supreme leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons,” Obama told reporters after the phone call three days later, described as the first direct communication between sitting U.S. and Iranian presidents since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

20 posted on 10/21/2014 2:04:15 PM PDT by Son House (Who's going to clean up Bush's mess now? </sarc>)
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