[stockpirate]

Sen. Ted Cruz totally supported the Iran nuke deal when it could have been stopped, he voted FOR the Corker Bill. Now that it can’t be he is opposed to it.

Ted Cruz is a liberal in the family Bush model, he served under Bush, Neil Bush is now his campaign Finance manager, having joined his staff the week following the Sea Island confab. Neil Bush was involved in the Silverado Savings and Loan scandal where over $1.6 billion dollars was stolen and taxpayers were left on the hook.

[gov_bean_ counter]

The people who are P&M(ing) about this are the same people who are ok with Dems and Indies jumping into open primaries to help select the Republican candidate (along with Dems who change party affiliation). The overwhelming majority of Dems having absolutely no intention with staying with Trump in the general.

[buckeye49]

Every senator but Cotton voted for the Corker Bill. That includes Trump endorser Jeff Sessions. You going to trash him too? Waiting.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The core problem with the Iran deal was that virtually all the sanctions bills passed by Congress in the past decade plus gave the President authority to grant waivers or make exceptions. Nobody ever dreamed he would use them in bad faith until Obama came along. And what Obama was going to do was simply grant waivers or just not act to stop transactions that should be barred. He openly said he would not submit it as a treaty.

The point is, because of the laws that were already on the books, Obama had the ability to do a complete end run around Congress anyway, regardless of whether or not Congress approved the deal. That completely sucks, but those laws were a mistake that long predated the Corker bill.

The Corker bill had no real teeth because the Democrats wouldn't let it have any, and if it did, Obama would have vetoed it. All it really ever had the ability to do was slow things down a bit. That's it.

That whole fiasco is just symptomatic of the problems with a regulatory state in which Congress delegates too much of its power to the President or to the Executive Branch. By the time this deal came up, the problematic laws had already been on the books for years, and there really wasn't a damn thing that could be done about it.

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Sen. Ted Cruz totally supported the Iran nuke deal when it could have been stopped,

Can you give one shred of evidence for this statement?

The Corker amendment passed 98-0. He said at the time that it was the only way to have any influence in the ongoing Iran negotiations.

Without Corker there were two options.

1.) Obama makes whatever deal he wants and Congress must take exceptional means to stop it such as a court case, impeachment or shutting down the government.
2.) Obama makes whatever deal he wants and Congress does nothing as they always do because they are useless eunichs.

With Corker, it is a little bit different.

Obama knows that whatever deal he makes MUST go before the Senate to be approved. There is an incentive to at least attempt to not give away the store. Cruz and the other rational Senators knew that it was their only opportunity to reign him in at all. They relied on the other Republicans to hold firm on their insistence that it must be a good deal. Of course, since the other Republicans are useless eunichs they did not hold firm and passed it anyway.

Immediately after the deal became public, Cruz had a legitimate plan to stop it. He proposed having the Senate refuse to vote on it because not all of it was made public as Corker plainly required. Then the Senate would threaten any financial entity who released funds to Iran with prosecution. This would have worked if the useless eunich Republicans would have gone for it.

To lay the Iran deal at Cruz's feet shows either stupidity or flat out lying.