Posted on 09/10/2015 1:41:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Ted Cruz -- a lot just broke here. I mean, during the break a lot of stuff just broke, so I'm just now getting it organized. Ted Cruz has put out a letter proposing the plan that we mentioned two days ago on this program to stop the Iran deal based on Obama's failure to comply with a Corker Bill condition that he disclose the entirety of the agreement.
Again, two ways to go about this Iran deal. There's intellectual heft on all sides and there's valid reasons to do both ways. One side says go after it on the basis of a treaty because it is one. The Constitution's very clear. Don't let Obama get away with doing something that's not a treaty when it is. And then there's the other way which basically requires the Republicans and the Congress to illustrate, to point out that the deal is invalid because Obama's not followed the law. And the law is the precious Corker-Cardin Bill, which, on one hand, made opposing it practically impossible because of the convoluted way it reversed the voting procedure and the objective of the voting procedure.
In a treaty you need 67 votes of support in the Senate to ratify it. The Corker Bill, "No, no, no, no, we're gonna make it so that we only need 33 votes to stop it," essentially. So it never had a chance of failing if they wanted to deal with it the treaty way because the Corker Bill convoluted everything. But there was another element to the Corker Bill that required the president to fully disclose everything in the Iran deal, including the two side deals on a certain date, which was July 19th. That was not complied with.
As such, the Corker Bill is law. It was passed, then signed, and Obama is in violation of it. And the Republicans in the Senate and the House are perfectly within their rights under the separation of powers and the whole concept that the law's the law and we have a rule of law, they're perfectly within their rights to assert that the Iran deal is invalid because Obama has violated the statute that he signed regarding its passage and approval, the Corker-Cardin Bill. It's no more complicated than that. I spent a lot of time on this two days ago.
Now Ted Cruz has put out a letter proposing a plan that is right along the lines of that which we've been discussing. There are four points. This is not the whole letter. These are just the four point highlights. Number one, Republicans should find that Obama did not provide the agreement, so the 60-day congressional review period never started. In other words, Obama did not give them the details. He was required by law to provide Congress with the details, which is something he hasn't done. Look at the pan-Pacific trade deal. You had to go to a super-secret room to read it. You couldn't take any notes outside the super-secret room, and you couldn't tell anybody what you had read.
Obamacare. It's become pretty clear that the vast majority of people that voted for it had not read it, and you remember Nancy Pelosi saying, "Well, we gotta pass it, we have to sign it before we find out what's in it." So this is par for the course. Obama's been thumbing his nose at Congress as much as they'll let him get away with it, which is quite a bit. But in this case they could find, they should find that Obama did not provide the terms of the agreement. So the 60-day congressional review, which is part -- that's another thing. Treaties, months and months and months are allowed. The Law of the Sea treaty, how long was that debated, for years. So should this have been.
But Corker, they thought they were being cute, they put a 60-day limit in it. This 60-day congressional review limit supersedes treaty clause in this case, but it never started because Obama didn't comply. That's the period that Corker and McConnell are trying to rush us through by September 17th, which lets Obama win with 34 votes in the Senate. That's what the Corker Bill basically does. It lets Obama win with 34 votes instead of 67.
Now, it's clear that just with that first point in Cruz's letter, this whole thing could be defeated, but McConnell and Boehner and Corker are trying to rush this thing through by September 17th so that they will get past the 60-day congressional review and make it look like it's all legal. The second point that Cruz makes in this letter is that McConnell should find that if Obama had submitted the deal as a treaty, it would have been soundly rejected, which it would have. They never have 67 votes for anything in the Senate, not even this. And a treaty requires two-thirds at 67. Remember the Corker Bill did everything upside down and ended up saying that all Obama needed was 34 votes to get this dangerously stupid deal authorized.
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I voted for Paul Ryan!
Drunks are always in denial.
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>> “yet Cruz voted for the Corker bill.” <<
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After he was lied to by McConnell.
Your deep dishonesty shines for all to see!
Trollon moron, the corker bill has actually made it easy to defeat obama’s ‘deal.’ He has not complied with the requirements thereof, so the 60 day time limit has not yet even begun.
Of course you knew that all along, right?
Like F__ you did!
You knew nothing, and especially about the Corker bill, that you attempt to use to derail the only conservative in the race.
Go back to Huffington. She loves sniveling children like you.
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Then Cruz must be as dumb as you to have trust McConnell.
He voted for Corker just like he voted for TPP as well a massive increase in H1B visas. No way to spin it.
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>> “When I favored voting for the Democrat in Kentucky instead of McConnell, I was met with a lot of disapproval here.” <<
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You have to take into consideration how many low-info FReepers we have here.
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Just keep on making a fool of yourself.
Yep because I refuse to vote for the uniparty.
"this idiots"
Strange days on this conservative forum when one of its members foams at the mouth with retarded fury when the subject is the most solid conservative in the race.
Why, you'd almost conclude that person is a liberal.
BTW, do you ever wonder why Cruz always makes a bunch of noise but he never actually accomplishes anything? If he is so ready for the big time and he so deperarely wants his ideas impairmented, why is it that he never able to get a movement behind him? Without the ability to actually create ‘action’ many would wisely either question his leadership or the sincerity of what he’s really professing to try and accomplish.
I know this would be too difficult for you to ponder so I’ll leaver it to the bigger thinkers to explore.
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What a moron you are!
Cruz has accomplished the most significant feat of the 21st century:
He won his case before the SCOTUS that sets the precedent that we are not under the World Court.
You and your people wanted him to lose that one!
Everything Obama and the uniparty has wanted, they’ve gotten and Ted Cruz has done absolutely nothing to stop it. He has proved powerless to even build a coalition of resistance. In fact he has actually helped Obama with his TPP and Corker votes. Zero leadership that has created and action...only a bunch of words professing how conservative he is. Thus far, according to the polls, only about 6-8% of registered GOPers believe him.
Cruz did NO SUCH THING. Be gone LYING POS TROLL!
Cruz gave the treasonous bastard McConnell and the GOPe a way out of this effing nightmare , but , no, they won't do it. They want nuclear holocaust !:$@;_)_&(!!!@#!!!:;#&(!!!......
Editor surveyor is right, you are making a fool of yourself.
Wish the mods would start thinning the ranks of these turds.
Can you even read? Try reading the article here -stupid frickin idiot troll!!
Over and over Cruz has come up with ways to stop the dem/marxists-McConnell and Boehner do nothing-they're just as committed to destroying this nation as Obama is.
So did I and I did not regret it
Exactly
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