“Americans by a significant margin oppose Obama’s nuclear capitulation to Iran. The GOP is in the majority in both houses. Yet the Stupid Party still gets snookered.” – Investor’s Business Daily
I know … I know … I was critical of Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) use of the nuclear option in the Senate when he was majority leader, and, yes, I was supportive of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s decision to return “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to regular order.
(Editorial cartoon courtesy zerohedge.com)
The free world, however, is facing a serious juncture in the realm of foreign policy on the agreement with Iran, and nobody seems to be taking it seriously. Columnist Charles Krauthammer believes, “No international agreement in a generation matches this one in strategic significance and geopolitical gravity.”
Democrats have lined up like sheep to follow their president’s wishes, despite the fact that most of them haven’t even read the agreement. On the other hand, there’s another group that opposes it. Yes, the GOP, but I’m thinking about the American people. Last week’s CNN/ORC poll revealed that 59 percent of the people disapprove of the deal, while just 37 percent approve. In the Pew poll the result was 49 percent opposed to 21 percent in favor. They haven’t read the agreement either, but they’ve heard enough about what it portends.
It’s time for Senator McConnell to do the right thing and employ the nuclear option to prevent the Democrats from filibustering to prevent a vote on the Iran deal.
“I think it would be a dangerous precedent,” said Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) when recently asked about it, “I’m in favor of exploring it. I’m not sure I want to change the rules in the Senate because we won’t always be in the majority.” The senator seems to have a short memory of the Reid reign.
Sen. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) has stepped up to tell Sen. McConnell, “It is time that Republican leadership utilizes the procedure as a matter of national and global security” and added, “I implore you to use every tool at your disposal to stop what could be the most dangerous foreign policy decision in decades.
There are those who say, why does it matter, the president will veto in anyway? I believe we have to go on record that we were in opposition. And, it avoids those future campaign responses like, I would have voted in opposition.
Will Sen. McConnell take the nuclear option? Don’t bet on it.
