Did The Fat Lady Just Sing?.................from Dan Friedman

Via Jared Silverman, Esq, who notes that “feckless Congressional Republicans” played into Obama’s hands.

 

What gives this import is that the two reporters are well-regarded journalists without a liberal/left ax to grind.

Dan Friedman
NYC

 

 

NYPost columnists Eli Lake and Josh Rogin think opposition to the Iran deal is doomed to failure.

Opponents of the Iran nuclear deal in Congress admit they can no longer kill the accord. Their focus now is making sure there will be a vote on the agreement at all, and salvaging some political benefit from their well-funded bid to stop it.
Lawmakers, congressional staffers and lobbyists opposed to the deal reached in Vienna last month tell us they are now fighting to get more than 60 votes in the Senate for a resolution of disapproval to avoid a filibuster by Democrats supporting President Obama.
That is a far cry from the 67 votes in the Senate needed, along with two thirds of the House, to overturn an expected presidential veto of that resolution.

Note that if the agreement was submitted as a treaty, it would not have received the 67 votes for approval required by the Constitution.  Thank feckless congressional Republicans looking to avoid confrontation with Obama for the state of affairs.  All it would take is a lawsuit by a US Senator to have the Supreme Court declare that the agreement is a treaty and requiring the president to submit it one.

Jared Silverman