U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on a nuclear deal with Iran at American University in Washington August 5, 2015. REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST
Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO: Obama’s Iran Deal Is Still Far from Settled
The review process under the Corker law never began — by the law’s own terms.
To undermine President Obama’s atrocious Iran deal despite the Republican-controlled Congress’s irresponsible Corker legislation, it will be necessary to follow, of all things, the Corker legislation.
On Wednesday, Barbara Mikulski became the 34th Senate Democrat to announce support for the deal, which lends aid and comfort to a regime that continues to call for “Death to America.” Under the Corker Roadmap to Catastrophe, Mikulski’s assent ostensibly puts President Obama over the top. After all, the legislation sponsored by Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and other Beltway GOP leaders reverses the Constitution’s presumptions against international agreements that harm national security. In essence, Corker requires dissenters from the Iran pact to round up a two-thirds supermajority opposition in both congressional chambers (67 senators and 290 House members). If the Constitution were followed, the burden would be on the president to convince either 67 senators to support a treaty, or majorities of both chambers to make the pact legally binding through ordinary legislation.
WNU Editor: Andrew C. McCarthy makes a very plausible and convincing case on how the U.S. Senate can easily block the Iran nuclear deal .... i.e. kicking in the provisions of the Corker law that would not lift sanctions, thereby pissing off the Iranians and giving them a legitimate excuse to walk away from the deal. Unfortunately .... I do not see the Republican party doing anything to block President Obama on this nuclear deal .... and for many Republicans who genuinely want to block this deal .... that must be the ultimate rub from this entire messy affair.
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