Posted on 04/14/2015 3:21:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Bowing to pressure from Republicans and his own party, President Barack Obama on Tuesday relented to a compromise empowering Congress to reject the emerging nuclear pact with Iran.
The rare and reluctant agreement between the president and the Republican-led Congress came after the White House maintained for weeks that congressional interference could jeopardize sensitive negotiations with Tehran. But lawmakers refused to back down from their insistence that Congress have a formal role in what could be a historic nuclear weapons deal.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the compromise bill shortly after White House spokesman Josh Earnest conveyed the president’s decision to sign it.
“Maybe they saw the handwriting on the wall,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said after the White House dropped its opposition. …
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Mighty white of them - to agree to abide by the Constitution.
Oh, that’s so nice of him. /s
how big of them...
So: Do we all agree it’s a treaty that requires a 2/3 vote to approve by the US Senate?
The deal must be going bad already. This way he can blame congress.
So the Reichstag gets to play like they’re in charge?
The press holes are lying. The GOP finally got Obama on the run and forcing him to concede. This is Barry’s Waterloo
Is that a racist statement?
Bingo. The Ayatollah has just about said as much. So it’s dead and this is about fixing blame (or credit).
Only if I were serious.
Sounds like Nervous Nelly to me. But in the end it’s all about Congress doling out some big bucks to Iran and trading...trading what??? weapons???
Setting the GOP up to take the Blame for saving the Middle East ,LOL
SMH???
Compromise bill but no mention of what the compromise is. That equals Obama gets nothing but a way to save face.
Sad
And when it fails, which they probably have some good indicators it will, then Congress will be blamed...
We have a winner!
Read the title. The AP promotes subversion of the Constitution continually.
Save face from the perspective of whom?
What is he conceding?
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