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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Obama ready to enlist UN against America's representatives

You have to give it to Obama.  His people have figured out clever strategies that circumvent the Constitution, the Congress and the American people as he transforms and undermines the country he now dictates.

 

Obama ready to enlist foreign aid against America's representatives

BY WASHINGTON EXAMINER MARCH 16, 2015 | 5:00 AM

With Democrats now accusing Republican senators of "treason" for expressing public disagreement with President Obama's Iran policy, it is difficult to imagine that the divisive politics in Washington could get much worse.
But sadly, it's not impossible.
Reuters reported last week that major world powers led by the Obama administration "have begun talks about a United Nations Security Council resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck with Tehran, a step that could make it harder for the U.S. Congress to undo a deal." This has now been confirmed by the White House.
On Saturday, the Huffington Post published a letter that Obama's chief of staff, Denis McDonough, sent to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, who has proposed bipartisan legislation that would ensure Congressional approval of any deal. Obama has threatened to veto the bill, and the McDonough letter reiterated this opposition. McDonough also wrote that, "The United Nations Security Council will also have a role to play in any deal with Iran. Just as it is true that only Congress can terminate U.S. statutory sanctions on Iran, only the Security Council can terminate the Security Council's sanctions on Iran. Because the principal negotiators of an arrangement with Iran are the five permanent members of the Security Council, we anticipate that the Security Council would pass a resolution to register its support for any deal and increase its international legitimacy."
Should Obama decide to pursue this route, it would be despicableHe would be enlisting foreign governments to work against the nearly unanimous will of Americans' elected representatives, who wholeheartedly backed sanctions. This would not only undermine the rule of law, but it also hints that worse is still to come. After all, Obama would not feel compelled to circumvent Congress's constitutional treaty and spending powers if he felt that he was getting a good deal from the Iranians that he could actually sell even to skeptical Senate Democrats. In reality, the deal being negotiated would leave Iran's nuclear infrastructure intact. It would make major concessions on uranium enrichment, plutonium development, and missile technology. It would unravel sanctions as thousands of centrifuges would be left spinning, and it would have sunset clause in a decade that would make it easy for the terrorist sponsoring regime to become a nuclear power.
The White House has recently been pushing the line that the U.S. government must speak with one unified voice on Iran. Patriotism supposedly demands no less – at least when Obama is president. But Obama guaranteed that the U.S. government would not speak with one voice when he leaked his plans to shield his Iran deal from congressional scrutiny. The White House's plan, announced earlier this year, is to circumvent Congress by simply avoiding any binding, long-term deal that would require Senate ratification.
The going plan is for Obama to make a short-term deal, then use his authority under current sanctions legislation to extend temporary relief to Iran – and to keep extending that relief indefinitely, as if it were permanent. In short, Obama has found an interesting loophole that allows him to do more by doing less.
Even so, this plan is impractical from Obama's perspective because it depends on the election of a like-minded successor. And so to deal with this contingency, he could use the United Nations to make it more difficult for a Republican successor to reverse his unilateral policy toward a nation that openly loathes America and her allies and seeks nuclear weapons as a means of expanding its influence.
The history of the existing Iran sanctions law makes clear what is really going on here. Obama is working to undermine the principle behind the lawful and duly enacted U.S. sanctions policy that Congress passed with veto-proof majorities in both houses of Congress. Obama opposed and worked against the policy at the time, but he signed it anyway because Congress — at the time with one house under Democratic control — would have otherwise overridden his veto.
American sovereignty and the rule of law depend on universal respect for institutions that Obama has repeatedly disrespected. His plot to enlist foreign aid against a coequal branch of the U.S. government would represent just one more slight among the many he has delivered against Congress – many of which have resulted in his being reprimanded by the Supreme Court for claiming power that is not his own.
If a power-hungry president feels slighted when Congress asserts its constitutional role in foreign policy, perhaps that is because he deserves to feel slighted.

6 comments:

  1. just when you thought he could go no lower... I wonder if he has the compunction to use a weapon of mass destruction on the USA.. or two or even three?

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  2. It's time to arrest the traitor.

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  3. don't worry Barack you can threaten Israel and threaten Congress.

    Israel will exact what they need to do as soon as you shoot down the first aircraft and kill one of their Pilots .

    Iran knows full well they need to watch the skies regardless of Obama's shoe pounding

    Mossad doesn't mess around with their enemies... too bad our traitorous Congress run by the same foreign controlled order in both parties cannot function the same way

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  4. It won't stop until Congress finds its gonads. They need to make Biden the presidential candidate for 2016 so the republicans can get in, since they can't pick a candidate that is pro- Constitution and is already a popular front runner.

    They are still between #'s 10 and 13 of the popular choices. You know, the ones they like, but every republican and conservative won't vote for.

    The GOP is being head banging stupid. Totally the best reason to vote Independent, however, what have we heard from their choices?

    Hillarious is the only real candidate put forth so far, and she's the biggest crook in the business, but there's no one else stepping up to the plate?

    WTF?

    I tell you what. Write in me for President. I have no political experience, believe in the letter of the Constitution, and love America. I have been everyone from Joe Lunchbox, Self employed contractor, and commercial construction super.

    I follow Rand and Ron Paul, Scott Walker, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to name a few.

    Vote for Gary!

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  5. How. Many countries read classified communications and for how long that went through Clinton's unsecured mail server? Clinton has too large an ego and too small a brain.

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  6. 8:17 - he is already using a weapon of mass destruction against his own country - his pea-brain!

    Look at what he has accomplished in the destruction of this country....took over and demolished 1/6th of the economy with OweBlamaCareLess, lowered the country's standing in the world with his apologetic foreign policy, and turned a large portion of the residents in to a herd of dependapotami!

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