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RUSH: The Iran deal. The short version here before we get into it in great detail. It appears — and for this, I have to rely on people I trust who are extremely well informed on this, honest and objective. According to people I trust — friends of mine that I know that are deeply, deeply, deeply invested in this story — there is a way for the Congress, for the Senate to stop the Iran deal, even despite the Corker deal.<\/p>\n

In fact, there is a portion of the Corker deal that makes it possible. It can happen, and it doesn\u2019t involve the Treaty Clause. It can happen. It involves sanctions. It involves Obama failing to follow his own commitments back in the summer. It\u2019s kind of in the weeds, but you know me: I excel at making the complex understandable. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Over the weekend Andy McCarthy<\/a> says he “offered a concrete plan to undermine President Obama\u2019s atrocious Iran deal.” It was a column designed to advise members of the Senate how they have at their grasp, in their ability, to stop this deal from happening, and that it\u2019s easy. “It is an easy one, because all that the Republican-controlled Congress has to do, if it really wants to derail this [Iranian nuke deal], is follow the law that they wrote and Obama signed, the Corker law — the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, sometimes also known as ‘Corker-Cardin\u2019…”<\/p>\n

Now, I realize that many of you are probably scratching your heads, understandably so, because you\u2019ve heard that the Corker deal basically made it impossible for Obama to lose because it reversed the treaty process. In the case of treaties, the Senate has to come up with 67 votes to affirm, ratify a treaty. What the Corker bill did was essentially say the Senate has to come up with 67 votes to stop it. <\/line><\/p>\n

It may sound like it\u2019s six of one, half dozen of another, but it actually made it much more difficult along the treaty lines to stop it. However, this new suggestion has nothing to do with the treaty clause since Obama refuses to be bound by that. Since Obama refuses to call it a treaty and be treated as such, then the 67-vote thing obviously is moot. And so the new idea is from McCarthy. Even though it does not meet the treaty clause standards, the Corker law does contain a useful ability. <\/p>\n

The Corker law can legitimately repeal the anti-nuclear sanctions against Iran, because the sanctions are statutory. So you don\u2019t need a treaty to repeal them. And if you nuke the sanctions, if you are able to repeal the sanctions with the Corker bill, then the Iranians pull out. They\u2019re not gonna want any part of it. If the sanctions don\u2019t get lifted, there\u2019s no reason for them to sign the deal. Now, Andy\u2019s column explaining this…<\/p>\n

You know, Andy is a former prosecutor and covers every imaginable detail and objection with an answer. I don\u2019t have the time here to delve into his entire piece, but you can see it at National Review Online, and I\u2019m sure Koko will link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. Essentially what it boils down to now is, since the treaty aspect of this is vamanos, the only way to block Obama here now is for Congress to show that Obama has not complied with the condition he had to satisfy in order to lift the sanctions. <\/p>\n

That condition was to disclose the entire deal to Congress by July 19th he did not do that. That requirement was in the Corker bill. The entirety of the deal had to be disclosed to Congress by July 19th, and it wasn\u2019t. I mean, it wasn\u2019t even close. And even after everybody was told we had a deal, there was still a couple of side deals out there that we learned about that then the Regime said, “Well, the side deals had nothing to do with that!<\/p>\n

“I mean, those things are negotiated and we nothing to do with that.” So the point is that the statutes — or the sanctions, rather — are statutory, meaning they are a matter of law. You do not need to delve into any aspect of treaties either ratifying them or not, in order to deal with the sanctions. If the Republicans in the Senate could force the sanctions to be maintained — in other words, not lifted — then there\u2019s no way the Iranians agree to this, because the Iranians want the sanctions lifted in addition to everything else. <\/p>\n

And of course in the Obama deal they get the sanctions lifted. But Obama has not complied with a condition he had to satisfy. Now, you might say, “It doesn\u2019t make any sense. It\u2019s not a big deal, Rush. Okay, so he didn\u2019t \u2019til everybody about July 19th.” Hey, folks, it doesn\u2019t matter. That is not the point. The point is there\u2019s a way to stop it. The Republicans have in the palm of their hand a way to stop this. <\/p>\n

The question is as it has always been: Do they really want to? And this gets back to everything we\u2019ve been discussing today, yesterday, the day before. It doesn\u2019t appear they want to do a thing to stop Obama. Before they had the Senate, they said, “Well, all we have is the House. We can\u2019t stop anything. We need the Senate.” So we gave them the Senate. “Well, we can\u2019t stop Obama! We really need the White House.” <\/p>\n

So whatever they\u2019ve asked for, they have been given by virtue of votes. And it is obvious that they have no desire to stop Obama. The only point of this piece here that McCarthy wrote is to point out there is a way; they have it in the palm of their hand. It\u2019s a matter of whether or not they will use it. Now, if they go ahead with this farce of voting for a resolution of disapproval, that\u2019s the part of the Corker bill that is the joke. <\/p>\n

If they go ahead with this voting for a resolution of disapproval, that\u2019s what Obama can easily veto, and then eliminate the Corker bill. ‘Cause the Republicans cannot override it \u2019cause they don\u2019t have 67 votes for anything. If they go that route, then Congress will be deemed to have forgiven Obama\u2019s failure to disclose the full agreement by date certain July 19th. And if all of that happens, it means the sanctions will be deemed lifted. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, McCarthy admits that the point he\u2019s making here is independent of the idea that it should have been a treaty argument. Some people are making the argument that it should be a treaty. We should treat this as a treaty and deal with it as a treaty, and Obama ought to have to ratify it as a treaty. The Senate ought to have 67 votes for it. There aren\u2019t 67 votes for this thing anymore, whatever, no matter how you do it. But that isn\u2019t gonna happen because the Corker bill takes the treaty aspect out of this.<\/p>\n

It just turns it upside down on purpose.<\/p>\n

So the overriding point here is there is a way to stop this and simply say, “Obama did not meet the condition he had to satisfy in order to lift the sanctions.” If the sanctions stay in place, then you\u2019re gonna have one ticked-off Ayatollah Khamenei. You\u2019re gonna have one ticked off Rouhani. And they\u2019re not gonna agree to this deal whatsoever because the big part of this deal to them is getting the sanctions lifted and having their assets unfrozen. That\u2019s, what, a hundred, $150 billion immediately at their disposal that we hold. <\/p>\n

And if anything happens to freeze that, if anything happens that keeps that money out of their hands and keeps sanctions on them, they\u2019re not gonna agree to the rest of the deal, and they oppose it. They stop it. Now, the Republicans are obviously afraid of what\u2019s gonna happen. I don\u2019t think that there is a blanket explanation for Republican behavior. For example, “Rush, why aren\u2019t they gonna try to stop Obamacare?” There\u2019s an answer to that. <\/p>\n

“Well, Rush, why aren\u2019t they gonna try to stop the Iran deal.” There\u2019s a separate answer to that. It\u2019s not just they\u2019re afraid of the media; it\u2019s not just they\u2019re afraid of being called racists. It\u2019s each issue presents a different set of fears. Included in the list of fears could well be the fact that they just don\u2019t want the of having their fingerprints on this. I\u2019ve got a new name for \u2019em, the No Fingerprints Caucus. <\/p>\n

If something doesn\u2019t go Obama\u2019s way, they don\u2019t want their fingerprints on it, is what they know is gonna happen. They know everybody — Josh Earnest the White House, the press secretary; Obama; John Kerry — they\u2019re all running around. The Iranians are celebrating, popping champagne, and they\u2019re drinking to a secure new deal, and everybody\u2019s happy.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s never been done before, and Obama\u2019s once again accomplished something no American president before him ever did,” and the Republicans say, “We\u2019re gonna be the ones to spoil this party. No way! We don\u2019t want that on our shoulders. We don\u2019t want the media ripping us. We don\u2019t want Obama ripping us. We don\u2019t the Iranians mad at us.” <\/line><\/p>\n

And it seems to be one of the primary influences governing their lack of opposition to anything Obama. It\u2019s almost as though they\u2019ve just decided whatever he does he\u2019s gonna do and we\u2019ll just wait \u2019til we get the White House and then we\u2019ll do what we\u2019re gonna do. You know, the other option you could say, you could declare that the president hasn\u2019t fulfilled the terms of the Corker Bill. The Senate could declare the Iran deal a treaty, because that\u2019s what it is, as per the Constitution, have a vote immediately. When it fails to get 67 votes, declare it null and void. There\u2019s also that approach. <\/p>\n

But the Corker Bill kind of stands the treaty process on its head, upside down, which is why the other approach here has been suggested. But it\u2019s clear, McCarthy refers to this as the Republican Party surrender and then pretend fight. He says the way to characterize what the Republicans do is they cave on everything but then they act and pretend like they\u2019re fighting and they act and pretend like they\u2019re mad and they act and pretend like they\u2019re doing everything they can to stop it, but they just fall short. Well, we need the Senate. Well, we need to the White House. Well, we need a couple of more votes. There\u2019s always an excuse. But the first thing that always happens is surrender, and then they pretend that they\u2019re fighting for, or against it, whichever the case may be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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