Crucial for world peace and U.S. security to stop the treaty
Subject line: Ways to stop Obama Iran treaty
Message:
Everything must be done to stop Obama’s empowering of Iran. Stop funding selected operations until Obama complies. Invoke the letter of the Corker process agreed to. Do not hold a vote until all side agreements are known. As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy explained on National Review Online 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.”
Further, insist that Republican leadership structure any vote on the bill advantageously. As DeRoy Murdock wrote in the same publication the House and Senate should 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 Democrats do not have enough votes to pass such a measure in the Senate or the House. If they filibuster such a motion in the Senate, 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.”
Congress’ hands are NOT tied. Do not listen to “leadership” if that is their attitude. Insisting on the absolute Corker as outlined above will stop the horribly negotiated treaty.
Contact links can be found in the Legislator Links on the Page Bar above. House members should be contacted. Contacting the full delegation requires an address in their district.
Roger Mall
A laudatory effort by Mr. Mall and a brilliant strategy outline by Andrew McCarthy and certainly worthy of support. It is obvious, however, that there is more than mere consensus that this monstrosity is a “done deal”. With few exceptions, even the most outspoken opponents of the Obama Iran Capitulation are conceding. An op-ed in today’s WSJ by former Democrat/Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, a staunch advocate of national security and fierce opponent of this deal, ” acknowledge(s) with regret that the deal will not be stopped by Congress”. The fact of the matter is, President Obama will lift sanctions on Iran, regardless of Congressional action, public opinion, rule of law, or Constitutional restraints. It is also a grim reality that the US is now under the rule of an indisputably third world type of “tyrannical” president.
The “guardians of freedom” in America, our “free press”, is neither willing to acknowledge the fact nor even seems to care. Our governance has sharply descended into a one-party system, driven by self-interest and abject fear.
Perhaps it is time to ask, if he were on the other side of this issue…a worthy cause for once, “WWHD”, What Would Harry (Reid) Do? Unfortunately, though never deterred by ethics, honesty, morality, or statesmanship, Mr. Reid seems always able to accomplish his ends, however despicable they might be, even when he is in the minority. On the other hand, the current Congressional majority can only claim as its sole characteristic a willingness, however dire the national circumstance or noble the cause, to surrender before any real or imagined threat to its narrow self-interest.
If it was not clear from earlier posts, a motion to disapprove would be an aspect of failure theater warned about here and by others. A motion to disapprove would find minority Democrats opposing it in the House and in the Senate but there they could filibuster the disapproval. A motion to approve would find Republicans voting against it thus the agreement does not pass there. In the Senate, Reid either has to approve and lose the approval vote or filibuster the approval motion and either way the matter fails approval as called for in Corker. If Republicans leadership calls up a disapproval vote then they are playing Democrats game and cooperating with Obama (as per Murdock’s analysis).