Good editorial by the Anti Obama rag. Even though they are against Obama's Policies with Iran, they recognize the serious betrayal these Treasonous Senators undertook.
Un-patriot games: GOP senators' letter to Iran is a treacherous betrayal of the U.S. constitutional system
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 12:58 AM
Underhanded undermining
Regardless of President Obama’s fecklessness in negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran, 47 Republican U.S. senators engaged in treachery by sending a letter to the mullahs aimed at cutting the legs out from under America’s commander-in-chief.
We join GOP signatories in opposing the pact as outlined, but we strenuously condemn their betrayal of the U.S. constitutional system.
The participants represented the bulk of the Republicans’ 54-member senatorial majority, vesting their petulant, condescending stunt with the coloration of an institutional foreign policy statement.
They are an embarrassment to the Senate and to the nation.
How the executive and legislative branches come to terms in the event that Obama presents his version of a done deal to America will be of grave national and international concern. There will be no place for juvenilia, and there should not have been at this expectant juncture.
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Rather than offer objections domestically in robust debate, as is their obligation, ringleader Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and his band trespassed on presidential turf by patronizing Iran’s leaders with the suggestion “that you may not fully understand our constitutional system.”
A future President, they wrote, “could revoke” any deal not approved by Congress “with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time.”
All true, and unquestionably not news to Iran’s leaders, who may be murderous zealots, but are by no means morons.
The plain intent was to sabotage Obama by pushing the Iranians into balking at a deal out of fear that a turn of the U.S. political wheel could doom the pact in the not-so-distant future.
Horrendously, every member of the Republican Senate leadership signed the letter, as did GOP presidential contenders Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. Only seven Republicans showed sense enough not to go along.
The Senate and House have the power to pass judgment on an Obama pact. The two bodies need only to pass legislation claiming the privilege.
The House is set to do so, but the Senate is three votes shy of a veto-proof margin at the moment. Pushing the count over the top will be crucial to subjecting Obama’s handiwork to the considered will of America’s representatives, as is sanctioned by the Constitution.
Quite possibly, Senate Democrats will block review of what would be the most consequential treaty entered by an American President in many a year.
While the Democrats would be grossly wrong to prevent congressional oversight of an agreement that promises to reshape the balance of power in the Middle East and endanger Israel, the process should play out as envisioned by the Founding Fathers, not as executed by faith-breaking frauds