Iran giveaway: Obama showing hell take any nuke
President Obama plainly wants it so much he can almost taste it, so sooner or later hell sign a deal with Iran.
A bad deal.
The reason for Iran to sign any deal is to get an end to US sanctions but Congress, if it feels the deal doesnt do enough to end Tehrans rush to become a nuclear- weapons power, might refuse to repeal the sanctions.
But this week, in a White House leak to a favorite news outlet, The New York Times, we learned that the Treasury Department now claims Obama can make the sanctions disappear without Congress. Huh?
Ed Royce, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Its tough to see a solid agreement [with Iran] when Congress which was critical to putting in the strong sanctions that got negotiations to this point is so clearly sidelined.
Democrats like Reps. Eliot Engel (D-Bronx-Westchester), the committees top Democrat, and Steve Israel (D-LI) are just as critical.
Yet this is far from the first trick the administration has pulled to dodge congressional accountability here.
Consider the timetable set by the worlds six top powers to conclude a deal on Irans nuclear program by Nov. 24.
Neatly nestled after Nov. 4 (the midterm elections) and before January (when the new, almost certainly more Republican, Congress is sworn in), it couldnt be more perfectly timed to sneak a fast one by unruly Capitol Hill.
As a diplomat from one of the six parties involved in the talks told me recently, Itd certainly seem that the deadline was designed with the US political calendar in mind, that is to give Obama more flexibility in making a deal.
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Iran giveaway: Obama showing hell take any nuke