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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Corker is saying that the media is being played. He says that he has not spoken to anyone from the White House. He also said he now has over the 67 votes to over ride a veto. I emailed Corker and told him Full Speed Ahead. Make Obama sign the Bill!
Barry: “Congress will have a say.”
Mitch: “Peep! Peep! Peep!”
The words of a RINO have credibility, you say?
I’ll believe what Mark Levin is currently saying, instead.
Mark Levin’s head is exploding over this..he’s furious
GIVE Congress????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey nitwits, you go thru CONGRESS BEFORE you decide anything....
Your not the KINGS and QUEENS of this Nation....WE the PEOPLE have a say or two about what you do.......
Yeah, “give Congress”. And some people here wonder why I wrote “SMH”. Never mind the Senate, incidentally.
Mitch is probably ecstatic.
I haven’t heard what Mark is saying, but it is Corker’s bill. If he says he hasn’t talked to the White House I believe him over Josh Earnest any day.
They realize the Senate was close to getting a veto over-ride majority which would have been humiliating for the Preezy.
The credibility margin between Corker and Earnest is quite thin.
I’m just saying, Corker would know if anyone had contacted him about his own bill. The White House is lying to protect Obama’s pride from suffering a veto overide.
Corker says he has over the needed 67 votes and that this so called agreement is B.S.
shaking my head
Yeh. There’s got to be more to it than this.
Maybe Sessions or other Congressman have some dirt on 0dungo and are blackmailing HIM for a change. Benghazi emails from Hillary’s server? Two can play at that game!
This is not good.
Did anyone listen to Mark Levin today?
Levin says Congress stripped the bill of anything meaningful. The Senate sold us out.
Golly. Thanks Obama.
He will “listen” but ignore. Then, when a smoking mushroom cloud is over Baghdad Obama can say “You see, if it weren’t for those meddling republicans this never would have happened.”
Obama knows Iran will get nukes. Obama will do nothing to prevent it. Obama just wants to say “I made a deal with Iran.”
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