The House is able to do what the Senate cannot, because the House has no filibuster or cloture to allow the minority to block a vote even if the majority wants one. And so we have this: The House on … Continue reading →
As completely expected, the Iran deal disapproval measure failed to win the requisite 60+ votes to invoke cloture in the Senate and allow a vote on the merits. We’ve known for quite some time that this would happen. But this … Continue reading →
There has been so much news lately that it’s hard to keep up with it, much less write about every topic that I consider vitally important and/or entertaining and/or amusing and/or inspiring and on which I have something to say. … Continue reading →
[see UPDATE in ADDENDUM II] …on whether to proceed with the vote on the Iran deal. As has often been the case in the past, Ted Cruz is leading the way in the Senate, along with several conservatives in the … Continue reading →
When it’s Obama’s, and signifies a sellout of Israel, the world, and 35 years of unified and unquestioned US policy. That’s when. This development is one of the many problems with Corker-Menendez. If there never was a chance of getting … Continue reading →
Andrew McCarthy has not been a fan of Corker-Menendez, to say the least. Today he has an article in National Review that lucidly explains how the bill can be taken to its logical conclusion by living up to its provisions, … Continue reading →
It was a foregone conclusion that the Democrats would amass at least 34 votes to block an override of Obama’s prospective veto of a bill that would disapprove the Iran deal and its lifting of sanctions by executive action. It … Continue reading →
It’s been clear for quite some time that the anti-Iran-deal forces will not get enough votes to override an inevitable presidential veto. But now it seems that Obama’s Democratic deal-supporters may have enough votes in the Senate (all they need … Continue reading →
Ann Althouse reports on Jimmy Carter’s major regret, according to Carter: REPORTER: And anything you wish — I’m sorry — that you had not done or that you’d done differently? JIMMY CARTER: I wish I’d sent one more helicopter to … Continue reading →
Bolton says that the situation is not good, and a pre-emptive strike by Israel is the only option. And he also says that has been the only option for a long, long time—even before Obama’s abominable Iran deal. Please read … Continue reading →
Dershowitz on the Iran deal, and his proposal for a better deal. A proposal which, I might add, is probably moot. But the interview is well worth listening to. It always seems odd to me how the obviously brilliant Dershowitz … Continue reading →
I’ve spent countless hours reading about and trying to understand the technical parts of the Iran arms deal—the details of the proposed inspections, what that actually means, and whether it all would be adequate in terms of stopping Iran from … Continue reading →