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Even Democrats won’t back Obama’s Iran nuclear deal

Mar 16, 2015 7:56 pm By Robert Spencer

Barack ObamaEveryone knows he is handing the Iranians a license to nuke Tel Aviv. Even some Democrats know. “Democrats won’t back Iran nuclear deal in blow to White House as enough break with Obama to to put veto-proof legislation in the works to stop an agreement,” by Francesca Chambers, Daily Mail, March 16, 2015:

Democratic senators remain irritated with their GOP colleagues who last week sent a letter to Iranian leaders undercutting President Barack Obama, but they will still back bipartisan legislation that would give Congress final say over a nuclear deal.

Enough members of the president’s party have signaled support for that bill and another that would impose new sanctions on Iran if it doesn’t make an agreement with negotiators that the White House would be powerless to stop the measures from going into effect once passed.

The Obama administration and its international partners now have until March 24 to set up the framework for a deal.

After that, a dozen Democratic senators, including Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs committee, have said they will join with the GOP majority to pass bills inserting themselves into the process.

One would levy additional sanctions on Iran after June 30 if it doesn’t agree to the final terms of a deal, though monthly waivers would be allowed should more time be requested. The other would give the Senate the power to reject within 60 days any pact the executive branch makes with Iran.

Democrats who spoke with Politico voiced their displeasure with the 47 GOP senators who wrote a letter to Iran notifying the country’s leaders that any contract it makes with the Obama administration would be nullified when a new president takes office in January 2017, whereas most members of the upper chamber would be in office for years to come.

But that hasn’t changed their position on the core issue, they’ve said.

‘The letter’s incredibly unfortunate and inappropriate,’ Heitkamp said.’That doesn’t diminish my support for the legislation that we introduced.’

Michigan Sen. Gary Peters similarly said the missive was ‘simply unacceptable’ and ‘brought hyperpartisanship to an issue that we need to maintain our bipartisanship in.’

He added: ‘That doesn’t change my support for that bill. … I stay firm.’

Blumenthal last week called Republicans’ actions ‘unconscionable’ and bemoaned them for disrespecting the president.

At the time, he said the bipartisan coalition of senators willing to buck the White House was ‘in tatters.’ Blumenthal told CNN that he was determined to ‘stitch it back together,’ though.

A week later it appeared that the group was holding strong and that Senate Foreign Relations Bob Corker, one of just seven Republican senators who did not sign the ‘open letter,’ was correct in predicting last Thursday that the whole thing would blow over.

‘Let a couple days go by. We think there’s going to be really ignited momentum,’ Corker had told Politico. Nobody’s dropping out. We’ve had reaffirmed commitment.’

Meanwhile, Republicans who did sign the letter triumphantly declared on the Sunday news shows that they had no ‘regrets’ about sending Tehran the strongly worded message.

‘I stand by the letter,’ National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rodger Wicker said on NBC’s Meet the Press.

‘I think it’s interesting that we’ve had so much talk about process, just like we’ve had talk about process with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech, rather than dealing with the substance,’ the Mississippi Republican asserted, referring to House Republican leadership’s end run around the White House earlier this year when it invited Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN he thinks it was ‘fair’ for Republicans to explain that Congress will be involved in the process one way or another.

‘I don’t think it was a mistake,’ he said of the message to Tehran.

‘The administration would like to have a distraction, but the point is the subject of the matter,’ the GOP leader said.

‘Apparently, the Obama administration is on the cusp of entering into a very bad deal with one of the worst regimes in the world.’…

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  1. Gart says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    “that would impose new sanctions on Iran if it doesn’t make an agreement with negotiators that the White House would be powerless to stop the measures from going into effect once passed”.

    This is not legible

    • Saleem Smith says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 11:17 pm

      What is legible in Obama’s political maneuvering is that he seems to think that the Islamic State of Iran doesn’t mean what it says when its state sanctioned mullahs chant death to America and call for Israel’s destruction.

      I doubt that Obama really cares at all about world events. He’s just going through the motions using his lawyer rhetoric and trying his best to say things that won’t get him into hot water.

      Obama is more concerned about his celebrity status, his golf game, and being able to retire while continuing to live the life of luxury. He is a narcissist through and through. The only question is whether or not he is a garden variety narcissist, or a malignant narcissist.

      We ex-Muslims know that Obama favors the Islamic religion like no other.

      The great ex-Muslim Ali Sina concludes that Muhammad the prophet of Islam was undoubtedly an evil madman and Malignant Narcissist. Obama most likely admires Muhammad and maybe even considers him to be his prophet.

      Malignant Narcissism is defined as the following:

      “A mental disorder characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance, and a selfish need for attention and admiration from others. Malignant Narcissist is a form of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), which is characterized by suspiciousness to the point of paranoia, feelings of grandiosity, absurd claims on oneself and sadistic cruelty accompanied by a complete lack of remorse.”

      http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm

      • boakai ngombu says

        Mar 17, 2015 at 6:08 am

        the POTUS says that he is Christian. he is an impenitent and fallen from grace by demonstration of regular lying, deceit, vindictiveness. such habits would be indicative of the NPD

      • Spot On says

        Mar 17, 2015 at 6:56 am

        “Obama is more concerned about his celebrity status, his golf game, and being able to retire while continuing to live the life of luxury.”

        Saleem, I agree. Wouldn’t it also be handy if Iran gave Obama’s wife or children a $100 Million present. Those willing to pay get to play in Washington.

        Obama is not worried about anyone else except himself and his family. His friends in the Democrat Party are beginning to find this out.

        Our minds are only able to judge others by our own selves used as the measuring stick. The hard fact is that there are people we see in public who put on a good face but have evil minds far beyond our comprehension. With big media and political PR, we never get to see the true person that we see on TV or even in person. With Ipods and texting, our young kids will never get the chance to learn how to judge people.

        We just cannot know the intentions of Obama. He may be mindless about the future, we don’t really know. His ego may not allow enough information to enter his mind to make valid judgements. He may care only about his time in office or he might only care about “winning” against those “evil” Republicans. I am sure that he believes that Republicans are evil. I am also sure that he believes that Netanyahu is evil. I also believe that Obama is very much antisemitic. So Iran would be a natural friend of Obama. I am sure that Iran loves this and will take full advantage of this unique opportunity for them in their quest to destroy the Big and Little Satan.

      • Rob Porter says

        Mar 17, 2015 at 9:55 am

        Saleem, an excellent portrayal of Obama. I have for him nothing but utter contempt. Noting his haughty looks – that for such a disgraceful fool of a man are pitiful and laughable – his contemptible lies and incessant deceit, he is the epitome of what it says in In Proverbs chapter 6: vs 16 to 19:
        “These six things the LORD hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren”.

        You could argue that he doesn’t have hands “that shed innocent blood” (but in truth I don’t really know that he does not!), but abundantly evident is that he does not care about Muslims round the world ‘shedding innocent blood”. In fact, in his support for the Muslims Brotherhood (that has declared it’s desire “to destroy Western civilization from within”) and other Islamic groups, he contributes to and sanctions the shedding of innocent blood. All the rest that God hates apply to Barack Obama.

        Like other rotten, cowardly Western leaders – David Cameron and the morons who run European countries – he is not revolted by and angered by the savage conduct of Muslims and determined to crush it, let alone allow such people into the country to afflicts it with the sickly conflict they inevitably bring. Something really sick has hit Western civilization when there is not real resolve among its leaders to crush such an enemy. Having noted Angela Merkel’s pathetic flip-flops over Islam and Muslim immigration, she is also an epitome of the West’s astoundingly weak leadership.

        Now knowing what a specimen of poor character Obama is, when noting his proud looks and general narcissism, angry lashings out at those who dispute his thinking and rotten actions – such as his dealings with Iran – I could sometime laugh in scorn at such a fool

      • Peter Charles says

        Mar 17, 2015 at 3:56 pm

        Sounds like the current resident of the Whitehouse.

  2. Joseph says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 9:49 pm

    I wonder what he is hiding up his nose?
    Or why he wants people to look up his nose.
    Another great picture above the article.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 11:44 pm

      Pride, mingled with contempt…haughtiness, looking down on others from a supposedly superior place.
      The haughty person is in danger of drowning if he walks out in to a downpour as his nose is so far in the air.

      • Joseph says

        Mar 17, 2015 at 9:19 pm

        @ somehistory
        A W E S O M E answer.
        never thought of the rain thing.
        Maybe Oslimo is a goose, he has lied about everything else.

    • M S case says

      Mar 18, 2015 at 10:48 pm

      He has just put on his smug look

  3. Don McKellar says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 9:55 pm

    Either Obama is the most incompetent foreign policy president in the history of the Untied States — even eclipsing Jimmy the Wimp…

    OR he is working to advance Islam across the globe, and in that case he is the most successful Muslim since the 7th Century. No other world figure has caused so much land mass to fall to Islamic supremacists by his actions (directly and indirectly) since then.

    So which is it? He never denies he’s a moslem — he only counters such claims by saying “I’m Christian”. Never, ever does he say he’s not a moslem. And as we all have seen and know, Islamic supremacists have in the past said they were “Christians”, and have a convoluted way of “justifying” that claim to deceive the infidels.

  4. DhimmiNot says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    Obama knows very well what he is…legally.
    As his father was a Muslim, so by Sharia, Obama IS a Muslim,
    unless Obama publically recants that he is no longer a Muslim.
    Obama can say a thousand time that he is a Christian or anything else, but unless he publically recants, he stays a Muslim….and he know this.
    By Sharia, he is also permitted to deceive the uninformed.
    End of story!

    • Sam says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 10:57 pm

      You guys are giving Obama too much credit. He is a stupid, brainwashed, arrogant communist. He has no clue about anything. Really anything.

      • duh_swami says

        Mar 17, 2015 at 6:51 am

        Maybe not, but Valarie Jarrett does…

    • Don McKellar says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 11:23 pm

      Your post, DhimmiNot, is exactly correct. This is the heart of the question as far as Obama’s religion and allegiance is concerned.

      Has any Jihad Watch reader any link or suggestion as to where we can see and hear Obama actually say that he is not a moslem? Does such a statement exist from him anywhere? Not a time that he claims he’s a Christian, but where he actually says “I am not a moslem.”

      If there is any public figure with a soapbox who questions Obama’s beliefs and motivations, THIS is the point they should be pushing! But only AFTER they have exhaustive searches done to make absolutely sure that he has never said that he is not a moslem (and thereby, in the moslem mind, is no longer a moslem)! If that can be shown without any doubt, I think we have a real case, and it would be time for him to be publicly challenged relentlessly.

    • particolor says

      Mar 17, 2015 at 4:25 am

      The last the World need is Butchers with Mental Illness and Nuclear Weapons !! 🙁

    • TheCountess says

      Mar 17, 2015 at 11:40 am

      Read post from Daniel Triplett further down in posts…. This needs to go viral in everyone’s facebook page. Really, please copy and paste and post in facebook….

  5. vlparker says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 10:56 pm

    The Senate growing a spine. Hallelujah!

  6. John C. Barile says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    For once, on a critical issue of the day, I agree with Sen. Gary A. Peters (D, Michigan).

  7. Daniel Triplett says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 4:32 am

    There is no question that Obama is a Muslim, working to advance Islam globally.

    He admitted he is Muslim to the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit back in 2010.

    Pamela Geller herself wrote this article describing the incident. Read and learn. Then be very afraid:

    http://pamelageller.com/2010/06/-obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minister-i-am-a-muslim-stealth-coup-on-the-white-house.html/

    • TheCountess says

      Mar 17, 2015 at 11:41 am

      Thank you for post…. This needs to be placed on everyone who is in your address list and posted on each one’s facebook page… NOW,

      • Daniel Triplett says

        Mar 17, 2015 at 2:09 pm

        I’m glad to be part of the good fight Countess.

        I don’t know a lot about Facebook, so will count on you to spearhead that campaign. Meanwhile, I’ll try to start a fire on Twitter, where I’ve been fairly active with about 15K followers (@dantriplett).

        This is definitely a disturbing piece. Even my cynical mother is finally convinced Obama is Muslim with this, after years of me failing to convince her otherwise with all of his other Islamic actions and quotes. Pamela and Robert are very persuasive with the facts.

        Let’s do it!

  8. John says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 8:40 am

    The one constant with this administration is that unless his party controls both houses of Congress he will do everything he can to bypass Congress to accomplish his agenda, whether it’s the Iran deal, Amnesty, Homosexual marriage, or whatever. Because most Congressional office holders care more about remaining in office than representing their constituents this lawless president and his usurping liberal justice appointments continue to determine the destiny of this nation. He must be stopped. The way things are going the Supreme Court will eventually rule Congress is unconstitutional(unneeded), and we will have a whole new ball game. The trouble is that’s how it is practically speaking now: this president gets whatever he wants, and the amendment process is totally ignored. This must change for the good and future of this country.

  9. Elisheva says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 11:18 am

    I think what drives Obama is his hatred of White America, Israel, Christians and the Jews. He is favoring the Shia Iran, Sunni Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas) over the Sunni (Egypt, Saudi, Jordanians). He is attracted to the most Radical Terrorists of Islam.

    According to one research biographer, Charles C. Johnson, Obama is not a religious man. I see Obama though through the words of Reverend Wright.

    http://spectator.org/articles/36529/gospel-according-wright

    Reverend Wright preached that the white man was an active enemy of the black man. He preaches Black Liberation Theology. Jesus, Wright taught, was “an African Jew,” as were most of the figures of the Bible. As Wright said in Africans Who Shaped Our Faith (1995), “evidence exists within and outside of the Bible to support the notion that the people of Israel…were of African descent!”

    “Wright held that “[t]he Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for more than 40 years now.” America, by defending Zionism and its apartheid-like regime, had too long practiced “unquestioning” support of Zionism. Given his hostility to Zionism and non-“African” Jews, it wasn’t surprising that Wright’s anti-Semitism reared its ugly head”

    Wright remained loyal to Malcolm X (Trinity United Church celebrates his birthday) and to Louis Farrakhan. Wright joined Farrakhan on a trip to meet with the latter’s benefactor,Gaddafi, in Libya in 1984. Wright has also bragged about his trips to Castro’s Cuba.

    According to Johnson, Obama “Steeped in Marxist thought and the community organizing tactics of the radical Saul Alinsky, Obama was probably comfortable with the view that religion was the opiate of the masses and black liberation theology the opiate of blacks.”

    Black Liberation Theology “will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the White enemy. What we need is the Divine love expressed in Black power. Which is the power of Black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity we must reject his love.” This denomination was the first in America to ordain gays as ministers.

    Rev. Wright blamed America saying “We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic.”

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Mar 17, 2015 at 2:37 pm

      Agreed. Thanks for articulating the Rev Wright connection. I’ve been looking for a way to do that. I was convinced back then that Rev Wright would sink Obama’s campaign. Made a fool out of me.

      Obama is just an America-Christian-Jew hating Muslim who saw an opportunity in history to capitalize on white guilt and seize power for himself. And in a way, you can’t blame him for wanting Presidential power, like any of us would. The really frightening part about this is an American population who would put such a manipulative, destructive, evil-minded man in power.

      The legion of useful idiots is growing much faster than the rest of us.

      I’m praying for Ted Cruz to be our next POTUS. If he loses, I don’t think America will ever see another Republican president again. Especially if Obama successfully adds 10,000,000 new illegal aliens voters to the Democratic role. Hispanic birth rates are about 5:1. Muslims in some parts are as high as 8:1. To maintain stasis, 2.1 births per woman are required. Whites in N America and Europe are about 1.3:1. So, we’re going extinct.

      The future belongs to the Hispanics, if we’re lucky. Or else the Muslims will own us, unless we take unprecedented action delivered on a Biblical scale to stop them.

  10. Richard Courtemanche says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 4:25 pm

    That means one person making such a high-risk decision against a majority. There ought to be a way to veto the President in such instances.

  11. lois says

    Apr 14, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    As much as I dislike the potus and his anti everything belief. We as citizens not only elected him once, but 2 times…while I personally have no respect for him as a leader it is not entirely his fault.We allow him to play tyrant king and walk on the constitution with free will and his ego trip. Maybe next time we will smarten up and not be blinded by free handouts and bull crap.

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