Senators tell Iran, “Not so fast there Abdul”

Good day all. If this is a day ending in a “Y” then there is yet another mess coming out of Washington. No, I’m not talking about Hillary’s recent lies regarding her email. This time, 47 Republican senators sent a letter to the government of Iran telling them not to count on a deal with Obama being worth much.

That is simplifying the actual matter of course. As you should know, Obama has been trying to get any kind of a deal with Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons development program. Last week, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, address congress at the invitation of the Speaker of the House. (One of the few things that clown has done right this year)

Prime Minister Netanyahu laid it all out regarding Iran’s plans. Basically, he takes them at their word that if they get nukes, they will use them. Anyone with any sense at all knows this is what Iran will do, especially since that is their stated goal. Nuke Israel and nuke the United States.

The problem is Obama. He has all but surrendered to whatever Iran wants, just so he and Kerry can announce “Peace in our time!” and wave their surrender document around.

The problem is that the Congress, at least the part of it that isn’t actively committing treason, has been telling Obama that he needs to bring them in on any discussions. Since any agreement Obama claims is a treaty wont’ be worth the paper it’s written on unless ratified by the Senate, Obama and Kerry should be including the Senate in the process.

Obama won’t hear of that. As far as he’s concerned, if he signs a deal with Iran, it’s done and finished and that’s that. The Senate’s reaction? The Republicans sent an open letter to Iran explaining to them just how the process works and not to get their hopes up that any agreement they make with Obama will actually last. That letter set off a firestorm in Washington among the PLFD’s and their minions in the Mostly Stupid Media. Here are a few details from Fox News:

A political firestorm erupted late Monday after an open letter from Republican senators to Iran’s leaders challenged President Obama’s ability to strike a permanent nuclear deal with Tehran.

As you would expect, the response from the Party of Evil was fast and wrong. Here’s what Slow Joe Biden had to say.

Vice President Joe Biden strongly denounced the letter in a statement saying the missive “offends me as a matter of principle” and was “beneath the dignity of an institution I revere.” “In thirty-six years in the United States Senate, I cannot recall another instance in which senators wrote directly to advise another country — much less a longtime foreign adversary — that the president does not have the constitutional authority to reach a meaningful understanding with them,” Biden said in his statement.

Consider that Biden has been on the wrong side of every major issue for his entire career in Congress, and is a mouth breathing serial sexual harasser to boot, this is about par for the course for him. Obviously, he wasn’t paying any attention when he was voting on treaties sent up by presidents from both parties. Now, here is the letter in question, along with the signatories:

An Open Letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

It has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our Constitution — the power to make binding international agreements and the different character of federal offices — which you should seriously consider as negotiations progress.

First, under our Constitution, while the president negotiates international agreements, Congress plays the significant role of ratifying them. In the case of a treaty, the Senate must ratify it by a two-thirds vote. A so-called congressional-executive agreement requires a majority vote in both the House and the Senate (which, because of procedural rules, effectively means a three-fifths vote in the Senate). Anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement.

Second, the offices of our Constitution have different characteristics.

For example, the president may serve only two 4-year terms, whereas senators may serve an unlimited number of 6-year terms. As applied today, for instance, President Obama will leave office in January 2017, while most of us will remain in office well beyond then — perhaps decades.

What these two constitutional provisions mean is that we will consider any agreement regarding your nuclear-weapons program that is not approved by the Congress as nothing more than an executive agreement between President Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei. The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time.

We hope this letter enriches your knowledge of our constitutional system and promotes mutual understanding and clarity as nuclear negotiations progress.

Sincerely,

Senator Tom Cotton, R-AR
Senator Orrin Hatch, R-UT
Senator Charles Grassley, R-IA
Senator Mitch McConnell, R-KY
Senator Richard Shelby, R-AL
Senator John McCain, R-AZ
Senator James Inhofe, R-OK
Senator Pat Roberts, R-KS
Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL
Senator Michael Enzi, R-WY
Senator Michael Crapo, R-ID
Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC
Senator John Cornyn, R-TX
Senator Richard Burr, R-NC
Senator John Thune, R-SD
Senator Johnny Isakson, R-GA
Senator David Vitter, R-LA
Senator John A. Barrasso, R-WY
Senator Roger Wicker, R-MS
Senator Jim Risch, R-ID
Senator Mark Kirk, R-IL
Senator Roy Blunt, R-MO
Senator Jerry Moran, R-KS
Senator Rob Portman, R-OH
Senator John Boozman, R-AR
Senator Pat Toomey, R-PA
Senator John Hoeven, R-ND
Senator Marco Rubio, R-FL
Senator Ron Johnson, R-WI
Senator Rand Paul, R-KY
Senator Mike Lee, R-UT
Senator Kelly Ayotte, R-NH
Senator Dean Heller, R-NV
Senator Tim Scott, R-SC
Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX
Senator Deb Fischer, R-NE
Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-WV
Senator Bill Cassidy, R-LA
Senator Cory Gardner, R-CO
Senator James Lankford, R-OK
Senator Steve Daines, R-MT
Senator Mike Rounds, R-SD
Senator David Perdue, R-GA
Senator Thom Tillis, R-NC
Senator Joni Ernst, R-IA
Senator Ben Sasse, R-NE
Senator Dan Sullivan, R-AK

Wow! That’s very controversial language there. In fact, it sounds familiar. I think I read that in a text book back in the Third Grade. I can see why the PLFD’s are so enraged. How dare those evil Republicans actually explain how the government functions under our constitution. Why that sounds like treason! Just ask MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

The topper was the closing remarks by Senator Tom Cotton when he added this remark at the end of the letter.

“We hope this letter enriches your knowledge of our constitutional system and promotes mutual understanding and clarity as nuclear negotiations progress.”

The Iranians were not amused by this, as you would expect. And, as expected, they completely missed the point…Just like the PLFD’s.

In a response posted on the website of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif dismissed the GOP letter as “mostly a propaganda ploy.”

Obviously, they don’t understand what Propaganda is either.

“It is very interesting that while negotiations are still in progress and while no agreement has been reached, some political pressure groups are so afraid even of the prospect of an agreement that they resort to unconventional methods, unprecedented in diplomatic history,” Iran’s top diplomat added.

Actually, it isn’t, but then as far as Iran is concerned, all these “talks” are doing is buying them more time to finish their program and start producing the number of nukes they think they will need to blast Israel off the map and also destroy a few American and European cities for good measure. As you might expect, King Putt promptly went to the defense of Iran against the Republicans.

Obama himself compared the Senate Republicans to reactionary members of Iran’s government, saying “I think it’s somewhat ironic that some members of Congress want to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran. It’s an unusual coalition.”

The Obama Propaganda arm promptly picked up on this and ran with it, basically comparing the Cotton letter with Radical Islamic terrorism and saying ti actually helps Iran. Just one small problem with that. The only people helping Iran are in the White House and the State Department.

“We’re on the verge of a deal that could allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon in as little as ten years, so it’s important that Iran realize that Congress will not allow that outcome to happen,” senator Cotton added.

He’s correct of course. Iran wants the Bomb and will do whatever it takes to get it. If you think they will just build a few and sit on them, think again. They will use them to destroy Israel and if they can get them here, nuke the United States. Why do I say that? Because the Iranians have stated that this is their goal. Personally, I don’t want to see nukes detonating here, or anywhere else for that matter.

Getting back to the PLFD’s and their screeching, they claim that “This has never happened before EVER!” We all know this is just another Liberal Lie of course. Prior to the United Stated going back into Iraq, two leading members of the Democrat Congress went to Iraq and shilled for the Hussein regime. It came out later that Iraq had paid for the trip. Then we have this little blurb, courtesy of Powerline Blog from the Daily Oklahoman, Sept. 26, 1991:

FORMER Reagan administration officials were stunned when, as revealed in the New York Times on Sept. 15, their mid-1980s monitoring stumbled across “Democrats or staff members of Democrats” directly advising the communist Sandinistas of Nicaragua on political tactics, including how to defeat U.S. aid to the anti-communist resistance, the “Contras. ” Although President Reagan’s people decided not to seek prosecution of the House Democrats, the issue has reached public view in the wake of a Sept. 15 New York Times story. Now, in a letter to House Speaker Tom Foley, D-Washington, four Republicans in Congress – Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma City, Bill McCollum of Florida, Vin Weber of Minnesota and Gerald Solomon of New York – have called “for a special investigation into possible misconduct by congressional opponents of the U.S. effort to fund pro-democracy forces in Nicaragua. ” In the words of a recent press release, the Edwards group wants to know if members of Congress or staffers “violated either House rules or laws which prohibit U.S. citizens from dealing directly with foreign governments on controversial issues under consideration by the U.S. government. In addition, the congressmen asked Speaker Foley to investigate whether or not classified information was revealed to Sandinista leaders by congressional opponents of this country’s Nicaragua policy. ” Where’s the rub? You can say the CIA operation which unearthed the questionable dealings between Democrats and Sandinistas was designed to intimidate members of Congress. Or, you can say it monitored the communications of a communist government a few hundred miles south of Texas, incidentally unearthing potentially treasonous activities by Democrats in Congress, activities never fully investigated.

Finally, observe that Democrats in Congress are the rascals who put Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calif., on the House Intelligence Committee. Dellums – an open sympathizer of the deposed Marxist dictatorship of Grenada and of Cuba’s communist thug boss, Fidel Castro – now has regular access to sensitive national security information.

Back in the 80’s, Reagan was busily wrecking the Soviet Union and restoring America’s greatness after the disgrace of Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately, all the hippies and Marxists from the 60’s and 70’s were now in Congress and they were actively aiding and abetting enemies of the United States. None of them were prosecuted, although they should have been. Compare this with the letter Senator Cotton sent. All he did was let the Iranians know that any deal they made that didn’t have congressional approval wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. Much like any of Obama’s promises.

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~The Angry Webmaster~

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