It is a hallmark of "Failure Theater" that the moment the Corker-Cardin/Menendez bill flipping the U.S. Senate's Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 ratification power on its head, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee became a huge detractor of Barack Obama's nuclear sellout to the mullahs overnight. Now that the "deal" is done, and aspects and stipulations of it are trickling out that are even worse than anybody outside of Yours Truly ever imagined, Senator Corker is playing his Howard Beale routine to the hilt:
The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee tells Kerry point-blank that "you've been fleeced" by the Iranians in the recently completed nuclear agreement.
Kerry was greeted with applause from anti-[U.S.] demonstrators as a handful of members from CodePink rose in the hearing room. But the mood turned critical immediately as Senator Bob Corker, who heads the panel, gaveled the hearing to order.
Corker tells Kerry he's "fairly depressed" after listening to the [commissar] answer lawmakers' questions Wednesday about the agreement in a classified briefing....
Republican Senator Jim Risch is slamming the Iran nuclear deal.
The Idaho senator says that anyone who believes the accord is a good deal "really joins the ranks of the most naive people on the face of Earth."
Risch says it makes no sense to trust Iran to hold up its side of the deal. He addressed his comments to [Commissar] of State John Kerry, [Anti-]Energy [Commissar] Ernest Moniz and Treasury [Commissar] Jacob Lew, who were seated at the witness stand Thursday on Capitol Hill.
Risch tells the Cabinet [commissars]: "With all due respect, you guys have been bamboozled and the American people are going to have to pay for it."
And the Europeans and the Israelis and the Gulf Arab states. At minimum.
But who can take these stern, blunt rebukes seriously when Senate 'Pubbies gave away their treaty ratification power for the proverbial three magic beans? Under the Constitution there was zero chance of O's Iran sellout being ratified, and a much greater likelihood of the White House bypassing Congress altogether and ramming it preemptively through the U.N. Security Council.....which the Regime did anyway earlier this week. Now they've got to hope that they can (1) keep their ranks together and (2) get at least a baker's dozen Dems to defect on the weak reed of pro-Israeli sentiments. And even in the highly unlikely instance that they do, Obama is going to force his deal on us anyway. I've said for years that he would do anything, betray any ally, get millions killed, in order to get that worthless piece of paper to wave around like a nut debarking the steps of Air Force One. It's his foreign policy equivalent of ObamaCare, something that he will defend with every last scrap of his awesome royal, demidivine power.
So why are Corker and his Pachyderm colleagues performing for the cameras when they can't back up a single, solitary thing they're saying? Because they're playing scripted roles.
Hey, it's not called "Failure Theater" for nothing.
And speaking of trickles, here's another gem:
PMD, of course, standing for "Possible" Military Dimensions. Which fits perfectly with the labyrinth "inspectors" will have to go through to reach the point where the mullahs have twenty-four days in which to veto any inspections at their guffawing leisure. Seems to me that it would be less painful for Tehran to just nuke us and be done with it. At least that way we could perish with a modicum of self-respect still intact.
And that gets us back to "Failure Theater":
Skip to 9:45 of the first clip below and watch to the end. Bob Menendez — Democrat Bob Menendez, I should say — picks up on something that GOP Senator Jim Risch mentioned earlier in the hearing about the UN getting its PMD samples from Iran. Is that true? wonders Menendez. Because if it is, the fox is guarding the henhouse. Kerry’s response: It’s classified — turns out those “secret side deals” I wrote about yesterday actually do exist, per Susan Rice — so if he wants an answer, he should maybe show up at one of those classified briefings senators are known to get now and then. [Anti-]Energy [Commissar] Ernest Moniz then assures Menendez that the inspections process will have “integrity.” At which point Bob “Failure Theater” Corker buts in to tell Menendez that Kerry can answer his question in about two seconds during a classified briefings, which makes it sound like Corker already knows the answer himself and that he wants Menendez to drop the subject in this public setting ASAP. [emphasis added]
Of course. Because Senator Corker has always known what the score really is on this debacle. If Menendez spills those magic beans in a public hearing, the "fourth wall" would be knocked down, and "Failure Theater" would be exposed as the perfidious bipartisan connivance it really is. Can't have that, now, can we?
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