There was one chance in a million to stop Iran from getting the billions of dollars that the Obama admin wanted to give them. Ted Cruz was the only person on either side of the aisle or in the punditry that had a viable plan to stop it.
That plan involved having the Obama admin say that the restrictions were to remain until the Congress viewed ALL of the specifics of the deal and voted it up or down. Then without disapproval Obama could do what he wanted.
98 of the Senators approved the Corker bill.
As Cruz said, they were never given the whole agreement so they shouldn’t have voted on it. He said they should not have voted on it and let the President illegally release the funds on his own but the banks would be warned that if they did so, it would surely be deemed illegal in the future seeing as how they did not follow the legally prescribed process laid out in the Corker bill.
Without the Corker bill, the President could have simply said “This is an executive action not a treaty.” We would have had no recourse other than the courts. The banks could have felt secure in releasing the money since it was a complicated judgement to know if it was illegal or not.
With the Corker bill, if Boehner and McConnel would have held the line, it would have been very risky for the banks to give back the money.
It was our only shot but unfortunately it relied on two eunuchs to carry it out.
Whatever you want to knock Cruz over, you can try your best. But trying to pin Iran on him is really stupid and desperate.
Then again, since you are supporting a guy who speaks in 2 second sound bytes, “You’re stupid”, “You’re ugly”, “We need to win”, “You’re a loser”, “I’m a winner”, “I’m yuge”, etc... you probably don’t understand nuanced arguments and strategy.
Great analysis. It really was bold of Cruz, and put him in a bad spot. It would have been easy for him to hold the line and be one of 2 senators to vote against it, but he really wanted to stop the deal.