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Friday, September 11, 2015

Democrats, Republicans and Mushroom Clouds

No regime on Earth has been as diligent in executing attacks on Americans since 1979 as Iran.

The world’s leading terror state is expanding its hegemony and contributing, through its brutal support of Syria’s Assad, to the horrific refugee crisis now swamping Europe. Even the grotesque Sunni extremist group ISIS owes part of its success to Iran, which has so frightened the Sunnis that some have been willing to support such monsters of their own sect. And the Islamic Republic has threatened, unabashedly and consistently, to annihilate the state of Israel.

This is the regime the Obama Democrats propose to enrich, to grant international legitimacy to as a nuclear threshold state, and to invite to monitor its own nuclear sites. No other signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty is permitted to enrich uranium. This is beyond naivete — it is sheer lunacy. The Democratic Party has forfeited any claim to national leadership.

Republicans cannot simply shrug and announce that they lack the votes to stop this catastrophe. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a reputation as a shrewd inside player. He has many possible options. 1) Pass a rule by simple majority declaring that the filibuster cannot be used for grave matters of national security. 2) Announce, as David Rivkin and Rep. Mike Pompeo have proposed, that because the president is not in compliance with the Corker/Menendez legislation (which requires that all side deals be submitted to Congress), the 60-day review period has not yet begun. 3) Decide (as Andy McCarthy has suggested) that this agreement — so crucial to the security of the nation and the world — is clearly a treaty and can only be considered by Congress as such, requiring a two-thirds vote in both chambers for passage.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...


I don't get it when a country makes more laws than any other legislative branch in the world than our Congress and they can't put differences aside and enforce them.Enforce the laws we have and make all,I said ALL abide by these laws.You have to many people twisting/bending these laws.If one get jail time for a crime thenmoney shouldn't let another not get jail time,you get my point about Americas problem? Politicians, especially our Leader,we need to hold all to the same standard or we will fail .

Anonymous said...

Get off your ass Mitch McConnell...!