OUTRAGE – AT 8:16 A.M. ET: The increasingly dictatorial Obama administration is taking the Iran deal first, not to the elected representatives of the American people, but to the UN, which is dominated by thugs and corrupt third-worlders. Even some Democratic members of Congress are outraged. From The Hill:
President Obama should not go to the United Nations with a proposal to lift sanctions on Iran before Congress acts, said Sen. Ben Cardin (Md.), the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Cardin said the administration should not move forward with a proposal to draft a new U.N. resolution affecting international sanctions until lawmakers have a chance to review the nuclear deal, which was unveiled this week.
“Acting on it at this stage is a confusing message to an independent review by Congress over these next 60 days. So I think it would be far better to have that vote after the 60-day review, assuming that the agreement is not effectively rejected by Congress,” Cardin told reporters after meeting with Vice President Biden Thursday.
“If the United States is signing onto the United Nations program and later on we’re not part of it, what we’ll do is inconsistent with the U.N. resolution, so it would be better not to have action on the U.N. resolution,” he said.
Cardin said he has communicated his concerns to senior administration officials.
Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., on Wednesday circulated a draft resolution that would end international sanctions on Iran once the International Atomic Energy Agency verifies its compliance with a deal curbing its nuclear program
Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said he told Power the action is inappropriate.
COMMENT: Inappropriate? That's an understatement for you. It's arrogant, anti-democratic and pro-enemies-of-America. In other words, it's Obama. But it will happen, and large elements of the American media, which always screams about the Constitution and its own rights, will go along with it.
July 17, 2015 |