Just how unpopular is the Obama administration’s deal with Iran? Very. A Pew Research poll released last week found that twice as many Americans disapproved of it as approved. According to Pew, the nationwide survey found that 49 percent of us disapprove the measure, while only 21 percent approve.
An overwhelming majority of members of the House of Representatives also oppose the agreement. Last Friday, the House voted 269-162 to reject the deal. The vote was truly bipartisan, with 25 Democratic lawmakers breaking with the Obama administration to vote against the measure.
The bill will never reach President Obama’s desk, however, because Democrats in the Senate have repeatedly refused to allow it come to a vote there. The stonewall began last Thursday, when 42 Senate Democrats prevented the bill from getting the 60 votes necessary for it to be brought to a vote.
When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) insisted on another vote on the measure two days ago, the same thing happened. The Democrats were able once again to prevent it from coming to a vote.
Let me point out that every single one of these 42 Democrat and independent senators voted last May in favor of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, which insisted that Congress be given a chance to vote on the accord.
After all, this is no minor matter. If the agreement negotiated by Secretary of State John Kerry goes into effect, sanctions that have been in place for years against Iran will be lifted. And the world’s chief state sponsor of terrorism will get its hands on an estimated $150 billion in funds.
Think how many explosive devices it can buy with that kind of money and how many innocent victims of jihad will be murdered as a result.
Amazingly enough, the Democrats’ refusal to permit a vote on the agreement is being described as a huge victory for Barack Obama. Here’s the opening paragraph in The Associated Press’ story describing what happened in the Senate on Sept. 10:
Senate Democrats voted to uphold the hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran on Thursday, overcoming ferocious GOP opposition and delivering President Barack Obama a legacy-making victory on his top foreign policy priority.
That isn’t news; that’s propaganda. And the incredibly biased tone continued in the body of the piece:
As a result the nuclear deal will move forward unchecked by Congress, an improbable win by Obama in the face of unanimous opposition from Republicans who control Capitol Hill, GOP candidates seeking to replace him in the Oval Office and the state of Israel and its allied lobbyists in the U.S.
That sounds more like gloating than reporting, doesn’t it?
The Democrats may have been able to use a parliamentary technique to keep the measure from reaching the president’s desk. But was this really “a legacy-making victory?” I don’t think so.
As I wrote last week, Obama broke a law he signed to win this so-called “victory.” As he moves to lift the sanctions that have been in place against Iran for years, the Muslim extremists who control that country will have vast new funds to finance their war of terror.
As the bodies pile up, more Americans will understand how Obama’s “top foreign policy priority” helped it happen. This issue will not only help determine who the next president will be; it should also play an important part in deciding which of those 42 senators will get re-elected.
Hopefully, the answer will be close to zero.
In the meantime, we’ve got to survive another 16 months of the Obama presidency. God willing, we won’t see many more “victories” like this one.
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
–Chip Wood
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