Posted on 03/12/2015 1:33:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) unloaded on President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretary of State and likely 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and the mainstream media over the Iranian nuclear deal—and the letter of 47 Republican senators he led about it—in an exclusive interview on Thursday morning with Breitbart News.
Cotton, a U.S. Army veteran, is the youngest member of the U.S. Senate (age 37) and defeated sitting Democrat Mark Pryor last election. This first big battle has created a firestorm that the bold southern conservative is handily winning against the entire political establishment.
“Any claim whether from the president, his cabinet members or from the media for that matter that this [the letter] is unprecedented is wrong but more importantly what’s really unprecedented is an American president negotiating a nuclear weapons deal with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and not seeking congressional approval for it,” Cotton said when asked about the vitriol spewing from the left about his letter.
One reason we sent the letter is we wanted to be crystal clear that Iran’s leaders got the message. That message may not be communicated to their negotiating team in Geneva, the negotiating team may not communicate it back to Ayatollah Khamenei and his senior advisers.
We wanted to be sure that they understood the basic facts of our constitutional system, that the president negotiates deals but the Congress approves them. If Congress doesn’t approve a deal, then Congress doesn’t have to accept a deal.
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Doesn’t Cotton understand? The left despises the constitution. Any mention of it sends them into a meltdown.
Tom Cotton Rocks! Arkansas got it right when they replaced Pryor with this guy.
Tell the democrat/media/RINO complex to stick their name & shame game up their bloated bureaucratic arses.
Well Kerry did say the Negotiations with Iran were nothing more than a Pile Of Obama Droppings anyway
Another deceptive and misleading headline, should read something like:
CONGRESS Allowing the President to Give NUKES to a Terrorist Nation!
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency
Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.”
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html
73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934)
https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear.
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement
http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
I will continue to beat this drum until everyone else catches on, that it is CONGRESS ALLOWING IT
Good for Tom Cotton. Wish we had more just like him. Not afraid of the left. Not afraid of the media. And Not afraid of OZERO.
We all know how much an Obama promise is worth!
Pile of 0bama.
Iran having nuclear weapons is not a problem for Obama; he just needs cover to get rid of the sanctions against Iran.
Maybe forwarding this to members of Congress might help...
He certainly isn't supposed to get uppity to the Massas!
I agree and have started that, but the sooner everyone starts talking about CONGRESS is Allowing it, the sooner they might be shamed in to actually doing something.
Every town has a newspaper that takes letters to the editor. We have to make ourselves heard all across the land or we will continue to be silenced by the establishment!
Awesome stand.
WAY TO GO, TOM COTTON!!!! DON”T CAVE!!
No wonder the Left is sooo upset, the letter uses the C word, they abhore the restrictions and government limits the constitution outlines.
That’s a great idea. I am originally from Arkansas and can proudly say that I never voted for Clinton for governor or president.
I was really proud of my home state on election night this year and Tom Cotton is someone to watch. I think he has a Lot of potential.
So far, he’s out performing expectations. Great to see..and so rare. We’re all so accustomed to being disappointed.
BTTT!
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