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McConnell on Iran Deal: 'Obama Won Short-Term Battle, But We Won the Argument'
Fox ^ | 9/11/15 | Staff

Posted on 09/11/2015 9:18:38 AM PDT by VinL

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said this morning that President Obama will win the "short-term battle" because Congress will not be able to block the Iran nuclear deal.

But he said Republicans, and the Democrats who oppose the president, have "won the argument with the American people."

"There is overwhelming opposition to the deal. The Israelis oppose the deal. Our Sunni Arab allies are nervous and apprehensive now, feeling they can't trust us anymore," he told Bill Hemmer.

McConnell said he believes the issue has a "long shelf life" and that the debate will continue until Americans "render judgment" on Election Day 2016.

McConnell said Senate Democrats have used a "procedural device" to prevent a motion of disapproval, which would then be vetoed by Obama.

House Speaker John Boehner is considering a lawsuit to stop the deal, while Sen. Ted Cruz has proposed going after U.S. banks that release money to the Iranians.

McConnell said he will explore any proposal by his fellow Republicans.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; US: New York; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; deathtoamerica; election2016; iran; israel; kentucky; lebanon; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; newyork; nukes; tedcruz; texas; trump; waronterror
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To: Carthego delenda est

All supposed conservatives running need to be vetted very carefully as the last batch were, for the most part, fakes.


121 posted on 09/11/2015 10:20:54 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: VinL

I now loath McConnell and Boehner worse than Pelosi and Reid.


122 posted on 09/11/2015 10:20:55 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you never should have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Welcome to the Dark Side Jedi. We have cupcakes.


123 posted on 09/11/2015 10:21:41 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: Carthego delenda est

“Yes. Now what is anybody going to do about it?”

A good start would be conservatives getting off their fat butts and electing a pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff in their counties. That gives them legal and armed muscle to take on the liberal fascists. Local elections attract about 10% of the electorate, so conservatives could also take over village, county and schoolboard governments with their votes.

The above gives you a safe community and a political base to begin taking back America.


124 posted on 09/11/2015 10:24:07 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Citizen Soldier

Many of the the thousands of international ‘agreements’ the US is a party to are considered ‘treaties’ under international law. There’s no clear demarcation and never has been, except it’s a ‘treaty’ if the Senate or the President designates it as such.


125 posted on 09/11/2015 10:26:26 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Political Junkie Too
To: VinL It's time to seriously turn up the heat on McConnell. Make him personally feel the heat of his position. To do this, I suggest some personal angst be inflicted on the McConnell household. McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, was the Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. This makes her fair game to be asked to comment on the politics of what McConnell and Obama are doing. Some reporter should drag her into the controversy and make her go on record supporting her husband's cowardice. Provoke McConnell into doing something stupid and reckless. -PJ

Makes sense to me.

126 posted on 09/11/2015 10:27:34 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Something that can drive McConnell out of office. In the ways of Congress, giving weapons to the enemy doesn't do it, but a Republican abusing his office or committing some arcane ethics violation does. So get McConnell to act out in a way that the LIV would understand. At the very least, make life uncomfortable for him by making his wife take a side, and then pound away at her position ask fellow Heritage Foundationers if they agree, and let it snowball from there.

-PJ

127 posted on 09/11/2015 10:30:05 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: timestax
McConnell thinks he "won the argument." Let's test that by bringing others into the discussion. Chao was a White House Cabinet member; is this a "win" to her? In her experience at the highest levels, is this really the best that Republicans could do?

Make McConnell personally feel it by driving a wedge in the family.

-PJ

128 posted on 09/11/2015 10:34:22 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: jjotto

Thank you for the explanation.


129 posted on 09/11/2015 10:34:24 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier ("Pray to God I do not lose the love of my life" Ross Poldark)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Well kidding aside, didn’t he just do exactly that? He violated rules argane and overt to get millions of people at risk to death by e=MC2 or 150B worth of conventional killing.

....That said...

Not sure what more he could do to offend the modern ‘American” other than having hetro sex with his wife in private. Which would drive libs and moderates into a frenzy. Which I suppose could work.


130 posted on 09/11/2015 10:34:37 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: Norm Lenhart

“Maybe. Closer to 5 IMO. 10 if one was real forgiving.”

Very forgiving...

Sociopaths. Pretty much every last one of them. I wonder what Cotton was told, what was made abundantly clear to him in private?


131 posted on 09/11/2015 10:35:36 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Norm Lenhart
Them just do it to piss him off.

-PJ

132 posted on 09/11/2015 10:35:42 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Not that I can get behind. But if anyone thinks we can ‘fix this’, I admire their ‘hope’ but we arent fixing squat unless by miracle, or Americans get their collective heads out of their arses about lesser evil voting. And certainly not till the next election if there is a next and it is remotely legit.


133 posted on 09/11/2015 10:38:53 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: VinL

134 posted on 09/11/2015 10:41:06 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: sergeantdave

“The above gives you a safe community and a political base to begin taking back America.”

Bingo! It MUST start in each and every small community and work outwards from there. Starts with a principled individual who will not bow to any but God, he will keep his own family upright, then godly men of the same cloth MUST organize, even if it is in secret meeting in the basements of churches around the nation, and take our communities back one by one.


135 posted on 09/11/2015 10:44:31 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Carthego delenda est

What I proposed is not new. The Founders organized Committees of Correspondence and Committees of Safety, and it all started in local communities and churches. This was done BEFORE they took on the English Crown. These committees gave them organization, leadership and armed patriots to move against the king when the time was right. They started a thousand brushfires that the king’s men couldn’t tamp out.

American history between 1750 and 1775 explains the whole blueprint, which the Founders left to us to use again.


136 posted on 09/11/2015 11:02:11 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Norm Lenhart

“I’m not saying you as I don’t know.”

??????????????????????????????


137 posted on 09/11/2015 11:30:49 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: DH

I don’t know what your past positions were on the subject so I directed the comment as a general statement.


138 posted on 09/11/2015 11:33:20 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Now we know what it must have felt like in Germany watching Hitler come to power and you couldn’t stop the evil taking over.

Observation of the Day!
139 posted on 09/11/2015 12:04:09 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Now we know what it must have felt like in Germany watching Hitler come to power and you couldn’t stop the evil taking over.

There's a scene that makes me think of that. It's from the movie "Cabaret" when everyone is singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me", there is a shot of an old man looking around horrified at what he is witnessing. That's how we all feel now.

140 posted on 09/11/2015 12:06:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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