The Obscene Drive to Avoid any Senate Vote on the Iran Deal

NEW YORK POST
Editorial Board
August 30, 2015

Whether to approve the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran is the most important question to face Congress in years — yet the president wants to stop the Senate from even debating it. He’s pushing Democrats to use the filibuster rule to stop the question from making it to the Senate floor — and Minority Leader Harry Reid’s rallying the votes to do it. Of course, President Obama never wanted Congress to have a say here. But Congress voted itself an oversight role anyway — by 98-1 in the Senate. Now Reid’s rounding up Democrats to derail the process they helped set up to “ensure the American people — through their elected representatives — a voice on any deal with Iran.”Solid majorities in each house of Congress oppose the deal — as does an ever-growing majority of the American people, as every poll shows. READ MORE

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