Barack Obama's gratuitous ball-shot from yesterday appears to have had its desired effect:
Republicans Wednesday slammed Barack Obama for comparing those in Congress who opposed the Tehran nuclear deal to Iranian hardliners, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell challenging the president to "retract his bizarre and preposterous comments."
"These Democrats and Republicans deserved serious answers today, not some outrageous attempt to equate their search for answers with supporting chants of 'death to America,'" the Kentucky Republican said.
No, Mitch, that isn't exactly what Obama was doing. What he was alleging is that it isn't the mullahs who are the "warmongering hardliners" - they've already chosen "peace," remember? - it's congressional Republicans who are pretending not to want to see our country EMP'd back to the Dark Ages who are the "radicals" spoiling to get the entire U.S. military massacred in "another" "war of aggression". You and your guys and gals are WORSE than the mullahs. Or, conversely, the mullahs and O are the "good guys".
"I imagine the Democrats who’ve already come out against this agreement will be especially insulted by it."
Wait for it....wait for it....
Three key Democrats said Tuesday that they opposed the deal struck last month with Tehran. [emphasis added]
Well, at least Mitchie can ask them all at once.
"This goes way over the line of civil discourse," McConnell said. "Defenders of the president’s deal with Iran should reject this offensive rhetoric."
Why? Look at the rise it's getting out of you. And since when has "civil discourse" mattered to The One since Noon EST, January 20th, 2009 anyway? "He won," remember? Maybe you and your guys and gals should start engaging in this ideological warfare in his language for a change. Since he's going to smear you as "racists" for opposing his sellout anyway, what have y'all to lose?
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called it a "defensive speech" and accused Obama of "fear-mongering."
"[Barack] Obama’s shameful fear-mongering doesn’t change the fact he and Hillary Clinton negotiated a deal that never ultimately blocks Iran’s pathway to....nuclear weapon[s]," he said. "That’s why the American people, and [three] Democrats, oppose this dangerous agreement."
Ironic fearmongering, I suppose, since the false choice he's painting - surrender or war - is really two sides of the same coin. Was it "defensive"? Nah. That's just his cosmic ego venting its rage that anybody would have the unmitigatedly seditious gall to fail to profusely scream their thanks and gush their gratitude at his "historic, landmark achievement" in saving the world from Iranian nukes by ensuring that they get our entire arsenal.
Fortunately other 'Pubbies were doing something other than whine - like laying the groundwork now for immediately rescinding the "deal" upon assuming office 533 days from now:
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker told Newsmax TV unequivocally on Wednesday that he would "terminate the bad deal with Iran immediately" if he were elected to the White House.
"I wouldn't wait to put my cabinet in place or anything else," the Wisconsin governor told Newsmax Prime host J.D. Hayworth. "I'm starting plans right now, so I'm ready on day one. [emphasis added]
Because, of course, since Barack Obama insists that this "deal" isn't a "treaty," then it's just like any other non-legally-binding Executive action and subject to reversal by his successor at the earliest opportunity.
And then, the other ingredient....
"I would re-impose the congressionally authorized sanctions. I'd work with the Congress to put in place even more crippling sanctions — and then I'd convince our allies to do the same." [emphasis added]
....leadership. Would our allies be convinced right away? Nope. But leadership is more by actions than by words, and once President Walker's actions were in place, following through on his words, that might just enter the realm of possibility. That's called credibility.
It takes a while, in other words, to get across to the world that a new sheriff is in town - especially after the last one - but Governor Walker not only won't be wasting any time, he isn't.
And that's only on one side of the Middle East equation:
Further, Walker pledged "to make sure there's no daylight between Israel and the United States."
A rather stark contrast with his predecessor, who not only took yet another cheap shot at his archenemy Benjamin Netanyahu, but is indulging in the audacity of bulldozing the Jews to embracing their own genocide:
Barack Obama will sit down with Israeli journalists next month to make his pitch for the Iran nuclear deal directly to the Jewish nation's populace, Buzz Feed reports.
The plan was revealed during a two-hour meeting with Jewish leaders at the White House, the website reports.
Obama noted a delegation of Israeli reporters were visiting Washington this week and had met with deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes – and that he'll "sit down with Israeli journalists and tell them my view of this and make the case of this deal, and that way engage the Israeli public," Greg Rosenbaum, the chairman of the National Jewish Democrat Council, tells BuzzFeed News.
"He expects that in early September he'll probably sit for another interview with Israeli television," a source at the meeting adds. The website notes Obama gave an interview with Israel's Channel 2 in June.
Given that the entire Israeli political spectrum is unified against O's blatant betrayal of their country to their enemies, I wouldn't expect much in the way of persuasive results if I were his majesty. Which means that he thinks he'll have them bowing down before him by the end of his first answer. And when they don't, that'll just be a pretext for more Bibi-bashing.
I think these interviews have another purpose, though: to bully Israel into not doing the unthinkable to stop the unimaginable. Which they are, of course, going to have no choice but to do anyway.
And remember that Obama's "deal" requires the U.S. to defend the mullahs' nuclear weapons infrastructure.
In essence, he'll be giving the Jews an ultimatum: "Death or war".
Good thing he's gutted our military, huh?
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