Posted on 07/28/2015 5:21:00 PM PDT by markomalley
Pressed by a senior House Democrat at today’s Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Iran deal, Secretary of State John Kerry would not commit the Obama administration to following the law if Congress shoots down the deal by a veto-proof majority.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) noted that the deal “might be, at most, morally binding on this administration.”
“The IRGC may publicly oppose this deal because that’s the best thing the Iranian government can do to pursue us to support — here in Congress to support the deal or maybe they genuinely oppose it,” he noted.
Sherman asked Kerry point-blank if “Congress and the United States free, under this agreement, to adopt new sanctions legislation that will remain in force as long as Iran holds our hostages and supports Assad.”
“We’re free to adopt additional sanctions as long as they are not a phony excuse for just taking the whole pot of the past ones and putting them back,” Kerry replied.
“You strongly do not want us to override a presidential veto, but if we do that triggers certain American laws… you think it’s terrible policy and you think the rest of the world would be against us. But let’s say Congress doesn’t take your advice and we override a veto and the law that is triggered then imposes certain sanctions. Will you follow the law even though you think it violates this agreement clearly, and even if you think it’s absolute terrible policy?” Sherman asked.
“I can’t begin to answer that at this point without consulting with the president and determining what the circumstances are,” Kerry replied.
“So you are not committed to following the law?” Sherman pressed.
“No, I said I am not going to deal with a hypothetical,” Kerry said. “That’s all.”
I wouldn’t believe anyone at Obama Inc if they pretended they intended to follow the law.
We all know that’s crap.
Why should they? What will the “opposition party” do if they don’t? Sic the IRS on them?
“So you are not committed to following the law?” Sherman pressed.
“No, I said I am not going to deal with a hypothetical,” Kerry said.
Hanoi John Kerry — is now Jihad John Kerry
Communists do not think that laws apply to them. They are for the nasty, little people populating the “unwashed masses.”
Obama: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space.”
Medvedev: “Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ...”
Obama: “This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”
Medvedev: “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”
“This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.” That statement tells us much about the president’s mindset.
The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration. Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president’s comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.
In addition, there is the phrase “on all these issues,” implying more is at stake than just missile defense.”
Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn’t be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
Let’s get real here. At best we are going to get close to a straight party-line vote on this Treaty disguised as an Executive Order. Easily vetoed.
And there is a distinct possibility that the GOPe Leadership (Reid, Pelosi, McConnell and Boehner) might just deliver an Obama victory right from the get-go.
Cruz is right - you can’t trust these guys anymore.
"Shortly after taking office in 1985, Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went on a fact-finding trip to Nicaragua, where they met with Daniel Ortega (right) and other Sandinistas. The trip was criticized when the Sandinistas cemented ties with Moscow."
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml
"Under questioning from the Committee, Kerry referred to the democratically elected government of South Vietnam -- our allies -- as a "dictatorial regime, the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime," while respectfully calling the North Vietnamese communist regime we were fighting by its oxymoronic official name, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and the murderous Viet Cong's political arm by their preferred "Provisional Revolutionary Government.":
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez042804.asp
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June, 1970 -- Kerry joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a national veterans group that is part of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. The PCPJ is a broad coalition of local and national organizations, including the Communist Party, USA, "committed to conducting demonstrations aimed at ending the war in Indochina, and poverty, racism and injustice at home." The VVAW, CCI and PCPJ all have headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City. VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard, a former Black Panther, is also on the coordinating committee of the PCPJ. Hubbard soon appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Executive Committee, bypassing the normal election process.
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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John Kerry and the VVAW--Hanoi's American Puppets?
"Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/staticpages/index.php?page=puppets
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) Complete FBI files:
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=VVAWFBI
Is it just me or is this either terribly written, excerpted or spoken? I’ve read these two sentences more than twice and still can’t make sense of these lines and most of the other ones.
I guess I’m just stupid or don’t speak Bull Spit.
“The IRGC may publicly oppose this deal because that’s the best thing the Iranian government can do to pursue us to support — here in Congress to support the deal or maybe they genuinely oppose it,” he noted.
Sherman asked Kerry point-blank if “Congress and the United States free, under this agreement, to adopt new sanctions legislation that will remain in force as long as Iran holds our hostages and supports Assad.”
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Enjoy the photos of some of the people installed in high level positions FOR THE PURPOSE OF SABOTAGING AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY AND AMERICA'S STANDING IN THE WORLD.
With expected consequences of this? http://www.deagel.com/country/United-States-of-America_c0001.aspx
Me thinks the NSA spied on Ashton Carter and his Internet activity and realized he was GAY although he is married to a female. THAT'S HOW OBAMA APPOINTS HIS PEOPLE.
Progressives = Outlaws, Scoflaws and Lonely Anarchists.
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