BREAKING: Barack H. Obama Just Threatened the US Senate With THIS Letter [READ]
President Obama can’t seem to keep away from threatening Congress. This time, he’s written a letter to Senate trying to bully them into remaining silent on Iran.
In a letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the president’s chief of staff said that legislation being sponsored by Corker would have a “profoundly negative impact” on negotiations with Iran.
That legislation would ensure that Congress would have to approve any treaty that might come out of the secret negotiations between the United States and the Iranians.
However, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said that having to get congressional approval was too much to expect from the president.
According to the Washington Times, McDonough’s letter was harshly critical of language in the bill that would kill Obama’s authority to unilaterally lift sanctions on Tehran.
“Instead, the legislation would potentially prevent any deal from succeeding by suggesting that Congress must vote to ‘approve’ any deal,” the letter read.
“The administration’s request to Congress is simple: Let us complete the negotiations before the Congress acts on legislation.”
Reading between the lines here, it sounds like the administration doesn’t expect whatever deal will emerge from the negotiations — which were set to resume in Switzerland this past Sunday — to gain the necessary support from America’s duly elected legislators.
If McDonough expected Corker to cavil, he was mistaken.
“On this issue where Congress has played such a vital role, I believe it is very important that Congress appropriately weigh in before any final agreement is implemented,” the Tennessee Republican said in a statement released Saturday night.
What Corker didn’t address was the conceit behind the administration’s logic.
This is the third issue in recent months — illegal immigration and gun control being the other two — where the Obama administration has readily admitted that the vast majority of Congress was going to vote against it.
Other presidents, in this situation, have had to work with Congress to strike a deal. The Obama administration refuses to do this.
They’ve instead pretended Congress doesn’t exist at all, and that those who we’ve elected to represent us oughtn’t have any say in how the country is governed if that say is different from the president’s.
The administration, essentially, is claiming that it knows better than you. They don’t care how you voted. To them, you voted wrongly, and you’ll thank them later when you see the error of your ways.
This isn’t democracy. This is a monarchy, and it needs to be stopped.
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