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4/15/15, "Republican Senator Bob Corker Is A Traitor," George Rasley, Conservative HQ Editor
"Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who planned to introduce an amendment that
would have required the president to certify to Congress that Iran
recognizes the state of Israel, wilted and settled for language
asserting that the nuclear agreement would not compromise U.S. support
for Israel’s right to exist.
Affirmation of Israel's right to
exist is of course is a foundational principle of American foreign
policy that was never questioned until Obama became president and
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill became not so much the leaders of an
opposition party, as a collection of craven cowards who wish only to
avoid the unpleasantness actually having principles and standing for
them would entail."...
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4/14/15, "Senate panel unanimously backs Iran bill," Politico, Burgess Everett
"Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) was able to hold off GOP amendments in
committee that would have disrupted the fragile congressional agreement."...
US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Republican members:
"Chairman, Bob Corker, Republican - Tennessee
James E. Risch, Republican - Idaho
Marco Rubio, Republican - Florida
Ron Johnson, Republican - Wisconsin
Jeff Flake, Republican - Arizona
Cory Gardner, Republican - Colorado
David Perdue, Republican - Georgia
Johnny Isakson, Republican - Georgia
Rand Paul, Republican - Kentucky
John Barrasso, Republican - Wyoming"
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Establishment Republicans don't even bother to hide their mockery of the electorate. In this case, each "side" pretended something that didn't happen. The GOP pretended they got Obama to cave, and Obama pretended that, gosh, he got in there and worked with congress, and got it done:
4/15/15, "The Corker Cave-In," Keith Koffler, White House Dossier
"I
keep reading today that the White House folded, caved, threw up the
white flag, rolled over on its sword and died a humiliating death by
accepting legislation by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., giving Congress “a
role” in the Iran negotiations.
In this case, that’s a bit of spin
that both the White House and Republicans want you to buy. Because
Republicans want you to think they’ve etched out some kind of a victory
over Obama, and finally stood up one of his power grabs. While the White
House want to camouflage . . . its latest successful power grab....
With the Corker bill, he now has Congress in his pocket as he joins Iran
in shredding the Constitution over a Swiss negotiating table. And in
ten to 15 years, when Iran conducts its first nuclear test, Congress
will have had a “role” in the tragedy."
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Comment: This wasn't about Corker per se. He's only head of the committee because he knows he's not really head of the committee.
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