Another post in what my work has increasingly become, a play-by-play on the road to Armageddon.
Obama dug up the final traitor.
Democratic (of course) Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland announced support for the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday, providing Obama the votes he needs to override a veto. Mikulski is retiring and so has nothing to lose, although her place in history is assured now as the quisling who unleashed the jihad nuke.
All Democrats — the party of treason.
The second Holocaust will not be like the first. The Nazis, of course, industrialized mass murder. But still, the perpetrators had one-on-one contact with the victims. They may have dehumanized them, over months and years of appalling debasement and in their minds, before the actual killing. But, still, they were in eye- and ear-contact, sometimes in tactile contact, with their victims.
The second Holocaust will be quite different. One bright morning, in five or 10 years’ time, perhaps during a regional crisis, perhaps out of the blue, a day or a year or five years after Iran’s acquisition of the bomb, the mullahs in Qom will convoke in secret session, under a portrait of the steely-eyed Ayatollah Khomeini, and give President Ahmadinejad, by then in his second or third term, the go ahead.
The orders will go out, and the Shihab III and IV missiles will take off for Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Haifa, and Jerusalem, and probably some military sites, including Israel’s half-dozen air and alleged nuclear missile bases. Some of the Shihabs will be nuclear-tipped, perhaps even with multiple warheads. Others will be dupes, packed merely with biological or chemical agents, or old newspapers, to draw off or confuse Israel’s anti-missile batteries and Home Guard units. (read the rest here).
Pick up the phone and start making calls to your Congressmen here.
Iran Deal Vote Tally: Full List of U.S. Senators and Where They Stand
Current tally: 34 senators support, 33 senators against, 33 senators unannounced.
Here are the traitors:
Support (Total: 34)
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Tom Carper (D-DE)
Bob Casey (D-PA)
Chris Coons (D-DE)
Joe Donnelly (D-IN)
Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Al Franken (D-MN)
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Angus King (I-ME)
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Ed Markey (D-MA)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Harry Reid (D-NV)
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Jon Tester (D-MT)
Tom Udall (D-NM)
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
“Obama secures Iran nuclear deal with Barbara Mikulski vote” By Ted Barrett and Jeremy Diamond, CNN, September 2, 2015
Washington (CNN)In a major victory for President Barack Obama, Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland announced support for the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday, providing the White House the votes it needs to prevent Republicans from scuttling the agreement.
The announcement means that at least 34 senators — the number required by the Constitution to sustain a veto — will back Obama’s expected veto of a Republican resolution to disapprove of the deal. Mikulski is retiring at the end of her term.
While majorities of both the GOP-controlled House and Senate are poised to vote against the agreement, supporters of the multinational accord that aims to curb Iran’s nuclear weapons program are also hoping to get the 41 votes needed to filibuster the bill and prevent it from even getting to a final vote in the Senate.
Secretary of State John Kerry said the administration will continue to try and push support for the deal past the 34 votes they now have “until the last moment.”
“Thirty-four votes are obviously enough votes for the president’s veto to be upheld,” Kerry told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “That is not satisfactory for us. We do want to try to go further. We’ll continue to persuade.”
That prospect upsets some Republicans who believe the historic agreement deserves a final up-or-down vote.
Nearly all Republicans have come out against the agreement, arguing it sets up weak standards for international inspectors to monitor whether Iran is complying with the agreement and would allow Iran to build nuclear weapons in a few years.
But only two Democratic senators — Chuck Schumer of New York and Bob Menendez of New Jersey — have announced they oppose it. The Senate’s 54 Republicans would need four more Democrats to join them in opposing the deal to end the filibuster and send the bill disapproving of the deal for a vote.
House Speaker John Boehner’s spokesman Cory Fritz said the White House shouldn’t be celebrating.
“Forcing a bad deal, over the objections of the American people and a majority in Congress, is no win for President Obama. The White House may have convinced just enough Democrats to back an agreement that legitimizes Iran’s nuclear program, trusts the regime to self-inspect and offers amnesty to terrorists, but this deal is far from being implemented,” Fritz said.
The administration only needs one chamber to sustain its veto in order for the Iran deal to go through. House Democratic leadership aides are confident that they also have enough votes in the House to uphold a veto.
The Iran deal has been a charged topic in the 2016 presidential race and GOP, candidate Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was the first in the field to react to the 34th vote.
“When I’m President, we won’t just reverse President Obama’s dangerous Iran deal. We will increase sanctions on Iran,” Rubio tweeted Wednesday.
Vice President Joe Biden, meanwhile, tweeted that “The #IranDeal is the best available option to block Iran from a bomb. It is in our national security interests.”
The administration is clear it will continue to sell the Iran deal to the public as it looks to bolster the number of votes in favor of the deal and sway a divided public.
Following Mikulski’s announced decision, Kerry will deliver a speech in Philadelphia continuing to make the case for the deal.
In his interview with CNN before the speech, Kerry said he would look to “dispel the myths” that he says opponents of the deal have propagated, instead laying out “specifically and factually what this agreement does and doesn’t do.”
He insisted the deal would make the world safer — including Israel and the Gulf states that have expressed concerns — by preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, rather than paving a pathway toward a bomb, a charge of the fiercest critics.
Opponents say the billions of dollars in sanctions relief Iran will receive will bolster its terrorism-funding and other military operations that have contributed to an increasingly unstable Middle East.
But Kerry said the amount of money Iran will receive in sanctions relief will be much lower than what some critics have contended. And while Iran will receive a windfall of tens of billions of dollars, Kerry said he and the U.S. intelligence community are confident that windfall will not put money in the hands of terrorists.
“Some may find its way to some bad or nefarious activity, but the activities that we have objected to…are not just fueled by money. Much of the terrorism that has been supported in the region has been done on the cheap, not because of money,” Kerry said.
“I don’t believe that the money released by this…is going to be determinative in any way regarding the security of the region,” he added.
More from the make-it-up-as-you-go-along administration. Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terror. If course the money is going to be used to wage violent jihad.
The heroes:
Oppose (Total: 33)
Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)
John Barrasso (R-WY)
Roy Blunt (R-MO)
John Boozman (R-AR)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Dan Coats (R-IN)
Bob Corker (R-TN)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Ted Cruz (R-TX)
Steve Daines (R-MT)
Joni Ernst (R-IA)
Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
Mark Kirk (R-IL)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
Jerry Moran (R-KS)
Rand Paul (R-KY)
David Perdue (R-GA)
Jim Risch (R-ID)
Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Ben Sasse (R-NE)
Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Tim Scott (R-SC)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
John Thune (R-SD)
Thom Tillis (R-NC)
Pat Toomey (R-PA)
David Vitter (R-LA)
Undecided/Unannounced (Total: 33)
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Deb Fischer (R-NE)
Cory Gardner (R-CO)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
Dean Heller (R-NV)
John Hoeven (R-ND)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Ron Johnson (R-WI)
James Lankford (R-OK)
Mike Lee (R-UT)
Joe Manchin (D-WV)
Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Gary Peters (D-MI)
Rob Portman (R-OH)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Mike Rounds (R-SD)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Mark Warner (D-VA)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
UPDATE: Republican Senator Hoeven (Nebraska) contacted me and assured me he is opposed to the deal and has spoken out against it.
UPDATE: From Daniel F:
Multiple news sources have reported Obama’s deal has enough support in the Senate to sustain an Obama veto and become law. Below are excerpts from statements Democratic Senators have issued in support of BHO’s historic debacle.
I’ve taken the liberty of adding the phrase “other than that” after each quotation. Gives you an idea of the age of lunacy Obama has bestowed upon us during his malevolent presidency.
“No deal is perfect, especially one negotiated with the Iranian regime” “other than that”
“With or without this deal, the day may come when we are left with no alternative but to take military action to prevent Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold.” “other than that”
“This deal has many unsavory elements. I would rather that its duration be longer. I would prefer our access to military sites to be less conditioned. I would like for Congress’s prerogative to impose additional non-nuclear sanctions on Iran to be clearer.” “other than that”
“This is a dangerous regime that kidnaps Americans such as Michigan’s Amir Hekmati, who needs to be released immediately, and sends weapons and other support to Hezbollah and other terrorists who seek to destroy the United States, Israel, and our other allies. ” “other than that”
“I do not trust the Iranian regime, which continues to terrorize its neighbors and to undermine international peace and stability, and this deal does not end our significant disputes with Iran.” “other than that”
To check my sources and see for yourselves, clear here.