Iran Deal Bizarro World
It’s President Obama’s Bizarro World and we just live in it.
He created a parallel universe in order to pass the Iran Nuclear deal .
Critics believe the deal qualifies as a treaty. A treaty requires 2/3 Senate approval and that wasn’t about to happen. Just ask John Kerry. So the president made it an executive agreement. No approval needed.
Bizarro World
That was one indignity too far for Senator Bob Corker. Corker decided to defend the Senate’s honor by allowing a vote of disapproval of the executive agreement. Obama agreed, promising to veto a vote to disapprove. Overriding a veto requires a 2/3 vote by the full Congress.
It never came to that. The president was able to muster 42 Senate votes to keep the vote for disapproval from even making it to the floor.
Kentucky Same Sex Marriage Law
Kim Davis is a Kentucky clerk of courts who refused to issue same sex marriage licenses on religious grounds. That earned her a trip to the slammer. She was released this week.
Victor Davis Hanson has a great column about how some federal rules are more equal than others.
Scooter Libby, in the last panel of the cartoon, was accused of outing spy Valerie Plame. He didn’t do it. Richard Armitage did. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew that all along but still went after Libby. He got him on perjury.
Nakoula is the filmmaker Hillary and the administration blamed for the Benghazi attack. It was a lie. Nakoula got thrown in jail anyway on a probation violation charge.
Refugees Responsibility
IBD says that McKinley was our first colonialist president. Obama is our first anti-colonialist president. That explains why Mt. Mckinley is now just Denali. Nobody got hurt, except for some feelings here in Ohio.
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Refugees
The unraveling of colonial arrangements in the Middle East has been less benign. Refugees are flooding Europe.
The White House announced yesterday that it would accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the coming year. John Kerry says the US might take up to 100,000 total refugees this year. A Washington Post editorial complains that’s less than half the number from our last big bug out – Vietnam in the 70’s.
Hillary is Sorry About That
Hillary said she’s “sorry about that”. Her apology for using a home-brew email server seemed as sincere as her detailed plan to be spontaneous.
She also says she wants to be “as transparent as anybody ever has been“. That could be a tall order following the most transparent administration in history.
