Posted on 03/14/2015 8:22:01 PM PDT by Steelfish
Obama Can’t Force His Iran Deal On The Country Without Congress’s Consent by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY March 14, 2015
Having the U.N. Security Council bless a deal wouldn’t make it binding under our Constitution. So, as we warned earlier this week, the international-law game it is. It is no secret that Barack Obama does not have much use for the United States Constitution. It is a governing plan for a free, self-determining people. Hence, it is littered with roadblocks against schemes to rule the people against their will.
When it comes to our imperious president’s scheme to enable our enemy, Iran, to become a nuclear-weapons power — a scheme that falls somewhere between delusional and despicable, depending on your sense of Obama’s good faith — the salient barrier is that only Congress can make real law. Most lawmakers think it would be a catastrophe to forge a clear path to the world’s most destructive weapons for the world’s worst regime — a regime that brays “Death to America” as its motto; that has killed thousands of Americans since 1979; that remains the world’s leading state sponsor of jihadist terrorism; that pledges to wipe our ally Israel off the map; and that just three weeks ago, in the midst of negotiations with Obama, conducted a drill in which its armed forces fired ballistic missiles at a replica U.S. aircraft carrier.
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Silly national review. Havent they learned by now obama doesnt need congress for anything? /s
That was my thought when i saw the headlibe. Who is gonna stop him?
It is otherworldly to find an American administration conspiring against the Constitution and the Congress in cahoots with a terror-sponsoring enemy regime, with which we do not even have formal diplomatic relations, in order to pave the enemy’s way to nuclear weapons
That's the whole affair with its incredible folly, unspeakable betrayal, and blatant criminality, in one sentence.
Excellent column.
Strongly suggest, everyone read ALL of it.
The ‘RATS in the US Senate would hold up (via filibuster) any attempt by Congress to put the brakes on the Obama regime. McConnell, as always, would not (because he wants to be “nice” to the folks who willingly would stick a butcher knife into his soft gut) go nuclear and rule that closure would be by simple majority. And weeping Boehner would say that he is helpless to not fund the Regime’s anti-American activities.
nully-the-psychic says:
Here's the deal:
If Iran says they'll stop their nuclear weapons program, we'll give them 10 fully functional W88 warheads with the PAL codes (00000000 in all cases)
The announcement to the American public will be made after the warheads have been physically transferred.
Obama will bypass congress and get UN approval making it difficult for it to be reversed.
But isn’t there type of UN sec council resolution that is binding without Congressional consent?
Obama Can’t Force His Iran Deal On The Country Without Congress and we have a sale on unicorns this week the blue ones are 50% off...............
Lowbridge and cableguymn above have it right.
It doesn't matter if the UN has authority or if Congress has authority, the Supreme Court, the International Court of Justice, nobody.
Nobody except Obama, that is.
With the media in full battle mode in front of him and behind him, he can decree anything he wants--health care mandates, amnesty, homo marriage, lunatic EPA regulations, targeted IRS audits, anything--and there is absolutely nothing anyone will do.
National Review can gasp and whimper all they want. The days of rules and laws and precedents are over. Obama wants this and he will get it.
I hate admitting it but it will happen. McConnell, Boehner, McCarthy, Portman, McCain...ahead are very dark days.
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