Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (L) talks to U.S. President Barack Obama during a meeting with bipartisan Congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington to discuss a military response to Syria, September 3, 2013. Reuters/Larry Downing
Eli Lake, Bloomberg: Boehner: Congress Doesn't Have Votes to Stop Iran Deal
The top ranking Republican in Congress privately acknowledged this weekend that his party doesn't have enough votes to overcome a veto of any resolution disapproving the nuclear-weapons deal President Barack Obama hopes to reach with Iran.
Speaking at an off-the-record event Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition's meeting in Las Vegas, House Speaker John Boehner told the audience that he didn't expect that more than two-thirds of Congress would vote to overturn a veto from Obama if Congress voted against a nuclear deal, according to four people who were inside the room for the private talk.
The resolution of disapproval is provided for in legislation before the Senate this week, known as the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. The deadline for reaching a final nuclear accord between Iran, the U.S. and five other world powers is June 30.
WNU Editor: House Speaker John Boehner is probably right .... I do not see Democrats breaking ranks with the President on this issue. But if this is how a nuclear treaty is going to be implemented with Iran .... where the majority of the representatives in both the US Senate and in the House of Representatives are against it .... it does not bode well for the future. But this discussion could all be academic .... there is no treaty yet, and we are still far away from any agreement.
This proposed new way of making treaties law is unconstitutional.
ReplyDelete23/rds of the senators are to affirm a treaty (per the constitution).
It is not 2/3rds of the senators have to oppose it or else a treaty goes into effect.
If this becomes practice, we might as well be Rome.
What is next? Diocletian?
Mandating that Sons and daughters have the same exact profession as their parents? Yes this was tried by Roman rulers.
By making the law in treaties ass backwards, it keeps senators safe from constituents. They do not have to explain why they voted yes on a treaty.
By extension if it protects senators it protects their parties.
Recently things have gotten shitty. the confirmation of Lorretta Lynch is proof. She believes that illegals have the right to work in the U.S. As such she should never have been confirmed.
McConnell and 9 others were such cowards that they thought if they got some sort of abortion bill that 99% of us did not know existed. That they could sheep us into accepting their quid pro quo.
McConnell and others are so spineless that we might as well have a Fatherland front like in Austria in the 1930s where the leader just declared that all political parties will now report to him.
A similar situation held in Argentina, which was developmentally equal to Canada until Peron got is dirty mitts on it.
The Republicans almost seem that spineless.