Posted on 05/08/2018 11:48:43 AM PDT by cotton1706
Mitch McConnell, as Majority Leader of the Senate, twisted the Treaty provision of the Constitution on its head to GET THAT DEAL THROUGH!
McConnell CREATED the provision whereby two-thirds of the Senate would need to DISSAPROVE of the deal in order to PREVENT the deal from becoming effective.
Instead of the Constitutional provision whereby two-thirds of the Senate would need to APPROVE of a treaty before it could become effective.
Pretzel McConnell!! Whatever it took to help Obama and his minions.
Instead of the Constitutional provision whereby two-thirds of the Senate would need to APPROVE of a treaty before it could become effective."
Noting that it’s argued that the Iran deal was not a treaty, I agree that McConnell was using smoke and mirrors to give impression that Senate didn't want deal.
Regarding McConnell's two-thirds disapproval vote, please consider this. Although the Founding States constitutionally required Senate supermajority votes for specific things like treaty approval (2.2.2), the founders otherwise uniquely guaranteed each senator one vote which McConnell's smoke and mirrors trick wrongly ignored imo.
”Article I, Section 2, Clause 1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature."
(No guarantee of one vote per representative like senators have.)
”Article I, Section 3, Clause 1: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote [emphasis added]."
Again I suspect that McConnell wired the Iran deal vote so that the post-17th Amendment ratification Senate majority could claim that they didn’t support Iran deal even though they probably did. (Do it for Obama.)
Remember the Corker Amendment? It was used to push this harmful treaty.
This Bill
https://www.corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/iran-nuclear-agreement-review-act
“Allowed” Congressional review of any deal struck by Obama with Iran. It ALSO allowed any deal to go into effect unless voted down by Congress and signed by POTUS.
In effect, whatever Obama agreed to would go into effect unless there was a 2/3 majority (due to POTUS veto) in both the Senate and the House to overturn it.
It passed the Senate 99-1. And all 99 should be hung by the neck until dead. On the steps of the US Capitol.
When you see Republicans lining up to denounce the “Iran Deal”, just remember if they were in the Senate in 2005, they voted for this POS.
And, they are lying to you AGAIN.
See my #23.
“Who else?”
All of them. See my #23.
“None other than the RINO Bob Corker.”
And 99 Senators voted for it.
See my #23.
” Did the congress appropriate Obama’s $150 billion cash payment to Iran?”
Yes, buy default, being the spineless scum-sucking scabs they are.
See my #23. In advance of the deal they voted to endorse whatever Obama came up with, unless overturned by both Houses of Congress and signed by POTUS.
And that vote was 99-1.
The reality is that Obama was never going to present this to the Senate to be ratified as a treaty and McConnell knew it. This whole maneuver was simply a political ploy to get the Democrats on record in a vote for it to use against them in elections. It had no bearing one way or the other for this deal being reached and implemented.
The only way to have truly stopped this from occurring would have been to pass a bill prohibiting the action but Obama would have vetoed it so that makes it academic. There is really no recourse to force a President to present an executive agreement to the Senate as a treaty to be voted upon under the treaty rules set forth by the Constitution and the Court is unlikely to get involved in a treaty issue.
Of course this is also what allowed President Trump to easily get out of it...no treaty vote, not legally binding.
And so did Bob Corksucker, who is also now helping a Democrat to beat Marsha Blackburn for the seat that Corksucker is leaving.
McConnell is a backstabbing snake. Let righteousness arise in our government and among our people. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people”. Proverbs 14:34
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