If Republican leadership does not pursue the legislative maneuvers suggested here they deserve ignominy
Appeals to Republican legislators to induce Boehner and McConnell to pursue these are key
Readers should be aware that the Democrat vote tally in the Senate regarding support for Obama’s horrid deal with Iran is now at 41 and enough to prevent a vote of disapproval by Republicans (and sustain an Obama veto) — the only avenue talked about under the bipartisan “Corker procedural bill” set up in response to prospects of Obama’s negotiations with Iran. The Corker bill was a horrid abdication of Constitutional responsibilities in its own right but such as it is here are two commentaries of vital interest that present methodologies to scuttle the Iran nuke agreement under the provisions of Corker:
Gary Bauer writing at Campaign for Working Families
When the New York Times last year leaked the news that the Obama White House would not submit his nuclear deal with Iran to the Senate for ratification as a treaty, members of Congress were outraged. In a rare moment of bi-partisan agreement, Democrats and Republicans came together to demand that Congress have some say on the most important foreign policy decision of this administration.
In May, the Senate passed the Iran Nuclear Review Act by a vote of 98-to-1. The House of Representatives passed the bill by 400-to-25 and President Obama signed the act into law.
In order to get President Obama to accept congressional review of this deal, members of Congress agreed to turn the treaty ratification process on its head. Instead of the president needing a two-thirds super-majority vote to approve a treaty, opponents would need a two-thirds super-majority vote to block implementation of the deal.
Many conservatives, myself included, were not happy with this so-called “compromise.”
The most important concession that Congress extracted from Obama was that he had to submit to Congress the whole deal, including side agreements. It is now clear that he has failed to do that.
Over the weekend, Rep. Mike Pompeo, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, and David Rivkin, a constitutional law expert, explained in the Washington Post that the Obama Administration was withholding a key side agreement between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Moreover, the Iran Nuclear Review Act stated that the president had until September 7th — yesterday — to submit all “additional materials,” including “side agreements.”
Rep. Pompeo and Mr. Rivkin write that the House and Senate “should vote to register their view that the president has not complied with his obligations under the act . . . and that, as a result, the president remains unable to lift statutory sanctions against Iran.” Should the president attempt to do so, Congress should take him to court.
My friend Bill Kristol, chairman of the Emergency Committee for Israel, agrees with this analysis, and so do I. But it is up to the congressional leadership to make that happen.
Set up the legislative vote not to be disapproval, but approval, in line with wording of Corker. Republicans then vote no.
Bauer’s description presents one avenue to stop Obama and the Ayatollahs. Now consider as well this commentary from Deroy Murdock writing at National Review (excerpts):
How the GOP Can Get Around the Corker Deal Voting “no” on approval of Obama’s pact will avoid the filibuster and supermajority provisions.
. . . as former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy explained on NRO last week, Obama already has violated the Corker measure, which he signed last May, by not transmitting to Congress by July 19 any and all side agreements, secret deals, and third-party accords related to Iran and its nuclear ambitions. RELATED: Obama’s Iran Deal Is Still Far From Settled One such measure, as the Associated Press revealed, allows the ayatollahs to self-inspect their Parchin nuclear-research facility and alert the International Atomic Energy Agency if anything fishy is afoot. To fathom the idiocy that Obama expects Congress to swallow, imagine Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer assuring Emperor Hirohito in July 1945 that the Los Alamos laboratory was just a toy factory. . . .
. . . For these reasons and more, the Republican congressional leadership should abandon this absurdity. Instead, House speaker John Boehner should instruct the House to vote on a motion to approve the ObamaNuke deal. It will fail. If Obama proceeds with his legacy-lusting pact with the devils in Tehran, he will have to do so unilaterally, as fits his autocratic nature. The Senate should vote on an identical motion of approval. The Democrats do not have enough votes to pass such a measure in the Senate either. If they filibuster that motion, they will block legislation designed to authorize ObamaNuke, meaning that no vote of approval could be taken. Either this rotten deal would go down to outright defeat, or Democrats themselves will stop it by blocking ObamaNuke from coming up for approval.
More reading of regarding McCarthy and Murdock’s appeals are available here and here.
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