McConnell: Obama has ‘great likelihood of success’ on Iran deal

[mystery-ak]

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/251372-mcconnell-obama-has-great-likelihood-of-success-on-iran-deal

 By Julian Hattem - 08/18/15 01:30 PM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is acknowledging that he has few options to block the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran.

President Obama has “a great likelihood of success” in an upcoming congressional faceoff on the deal, the Kentucky Republican said on Monday, according to reports. 

"He can win by getting one-third plus one of either house," McConnell told a local chamber of commerce, The Associated Press reported.

The comments appear to signal Republican leaders’ reluctant recognition that the math required to override a potential veto of legislation to kill the deal remains slightly out of their grasp.

Though not a single Republican has yet been willing to support the agreement, an overwhelming majority of Democrats have lined up to support the deal.

The calculus for critics of the agreement became slightly more favorable on Tuesday, when Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) announced that he would become the second Senate Democrat to vote to kill the deal, joining Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the heir apparent to the Senate Democratic leader’s chair. 

“What I'm pretty confident of is sustaining the veto will be an entirely Democratic exercise," McConnell said on Monday, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. "Sen. [Charles] Schumer coming out against the deal was helpful.”

“I hope we can defeat it, but the procedure is obviously stacked in the president's favor,” he added. “And we'll see."

Opponents were given an additional boost over the weekend, when Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) came out against the nuclear accord. Flake’s decision dramatically increased the odds that Republicans remain united to kill the deal.

Republicans will need the support of six Democrats to overcome a filibuster of legislation to kill the deal, and an additional seven to overcome Obama’s veto, assuming GOP lawmakers vote in a united bloc.

But despite a few notable dissenters, Democrats are increasingly saying they support the agreement, which places limits on Iran's nuclear power in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

Though not impossible, critics’ opportunities for a pickup are diminishing.

[raml]

McConnell one big big reason I hate the republican party leaders.

[andy58-in-nh]

When Democrats were in the majority, they were able to to whatever they wanted to do and stop whatever they wanted to stop. Now that they are in the minority, nothing has changed.
 
Republicans for their part can't ever stop anything that Democrats want to do, and never seem to have a plan, an agenda, or a clue.   
 
And why is it that Obama gets to negotiate a treaty with a hostile foreign power that somehow requires a supermajority to defeat it, as opposed to the normal Congressional "advise and consent" that has attached to such negotiated agreements for the entire previous history of the United States?

[EdinVA]

Obama administration objects as Russia moves ahead with Iran missile sale

Russia, along with the U.S. and others, was a party to the Iran nuclear agreement containing the arms shipment restrictions. Yet Reuters first reported that Iran plans to sign the contract for four of the S-300 Russian missiles as soon as next week.

"The text of the contract is ready and our friends will go to Russia next week to sign the contract," Iran Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan reportedly said.

When asked to characterize the capability of Russia’s S-300 air defense system, a U.S. defense official with knowledge of Russia’s weapons systems told Fox News, “This is a very capable weapons system that can bring down U.S. or Israeli jet aircraft.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/18/obama-administration-objects-as-russia-reportedly-moves-ahead-with-iran-missile/

Yep, Obama is real successful

[DCPatriot]

When Democrats were in the majority, they were able to to whatever they wanted to do and stop whatever they wanted to stop. Now that they are in the minority, nothing has changed.
 
Republicans for their part can't ever stop anything that Democrats want to do, and never seem to have a plan, an agenda, or a clue.   
 
And why is it that Obama gets to negotiate a treaty with a hostile foreign power that somehow requires a supermajority to defeat it, as opposed to the normal Congressional "advise and consent" that has attached to such negotiated agreements for the entire previous history of the United States?

It's not a "treaty".  It's an "arrangement".  An "arrangement" unanimously approved by the Security Council of the United Nations.

That said, why isn't McConnell taking the tact that the President had no authority to do what he did?

[Longiron]

The DC Cartel at work. Maybe some might want to look at the reason the RINOGOP is not working?? The ONE party rule will be coming to a end in 2017.

[Bigun]

http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=51fe948515b4

[aligncare]

http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=51fe948515b4

Interesting.

[GourmetDan]

Interesting.

All those chances... nothing was done... and people still won't recognize that...

"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World.  The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other.  Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…  We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.  Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view.  This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."

[Fishrrman]

McConnell:
"Obama has ‘great likelihood of success’ on Iran deal"

With dolts like you leading the way, how can he not succeed ??