House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R – VA) is pushing a new bipartisan bill that would dictate the terms of an “acceptable” final P5+1 deal with Iran, aiming to stop negotiations on any such pact.
“I for one am really upset with that interim deal,” insisted Cantor, who says his new proposal would demand that any “final deal” bar Iran from any civilian enrichment of uranium.
That demand is a non-starter for the pact, and deliberately so, part of the long-standing strategy of demanding totally unacceptable terms of Iran so that they can blame Iran for the talks’ inevitable collapse.
The bill is likely the first effort in an ongoing attempt to sabotage the talks by Israel, which sent a team to the US last week specifically to start pushing Congress to keep the P5+1 from reaching a final deal that is objectionable to Israel, which is to say any final deal at all.
deport this traitor to israel, or better yet, guantanamo.
Cantor should be deported to Israel. We can do that, we do that, for dual passport holders. It is past time.
I want to know why congress interferes in foreign policy? Is the state of affairs in the US s ogres that they have nothing better to do?
Um … perhaps because under the US Constitution Congress is in charge of foreign policy? The president can make treaties, but only with permission of 2/3 of the US Senate. The president is commander in chief of the armed forces, but only when Congress calls them into service with a declaration of war. It is Congress's job to make policy. The president's only job is to execute the policies created by Congress.
exactly right. the military/industrial complex and american Zionists hasn't hosed round cash for pols for nothing and they aren't going to get their fingers out of treasury's till by some for some pipsqueak like Barry.
No, the President is in charge of foreign policy, and has been since Geo Washington.
The Senate gives limited advise and consent on some issues, like treaties and appointments.
The House has no role except the purse.
Cantor is a loon, a traitor, and does nothing but harm to Americans and our country.
"No, the President is in charge of foreign policy, and has been since Geo Washington. "
In your imagination, perhaps.
In the US Constitution, exactly the opposite.
Mr. Knapp
You are wrong; in the US constitution (Article 2 section 2) the Senate is given 2 specific rights in foreign policies (Advice and consent) to ratify treaties [which the president negotiates] and the approval of the appointing ambassadors.
Additionally these talks with Iran are not a treaty between Iran and the US therefore the senate has no say in it.
Furthermore the right to enrich Uranium for peaceful purposes is an international right (NPT) which the US is a signatory too and therefore the US, never mind the Senate, cannot set rules and limitation s to Iran’s rights by dictating their orders coming from Israel.
izirbat,
You might want to check out the actual part of the actual Constitution that actually enumerates Congress's actual powers. It's in Article I, Section 8. Those powers explicitly include regulating commerce with foreign nations (which would include any economic sanctions).
You seem to have mistaken me for someone who supports Congress's apparent position on Iran. I don't. In fact, I don't see any need for an "agreement" of the sort being negotiated, because frankly Iran's nuclear program is not the business of the United States at all, and only the business of e.g. the IAEA if they appear to be in breach of their obligations under NNPT (my understanding is that they aren't, or that if they are the breaches are of a minor character).
The desirability of the agreement in question versus the proposed sanctions, etc. are not at issue here. What's at issue is who makes US policy. The answer to that, according to the Constitution, is Congress. The president is the executive. He executes the policies that Congress makes. Even to the extent that he's allowed to "make policy" at the level of treaties, that's a negotiation power — treaties are only valid upon ratification by the US Senate.
We will have to depend on Debbie Wasserman Schultz to save us from this perfidy.
Leave it to an Israeli reporter to describe the likes of Eric Cantor….." The greatest danger is the stupidity of our [Israeli] leaders."
Guess Eric is trying to live up to the promise he made to Bibi IN PERSON that he will take care of his back. So much for a true American citizen.
Cantor is the 5th highest career recipient of AIPAC money.
AIPAC should rightly be called the American-style Imperialism Political Action Committee:
http://www.rense.com/general88/aip.htm
Cantor is the 5th highest career recipient of AIPAC money.
AIPAC should rightly be called the American-style Imperialism Political Action Committee:
http://www.rense.com/general88/aip.htm
Cantor is the 5th highest career recipient of AIPAC money.
AIPAC should rightly be called the American-style Imperialism Political Action Committee:
http://www.rense.com/general88/aip.htm
Cantor does not represent America. He is beholden to a foreign country ahead of his own country.
Here's the plant, the tool for Israel in the US gov't:
http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/eric…
http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/is-c…
He should be thrown up against a wall and pummeled, this douchebag.
Here's the plant, the tool for Israel in the US gov't:
http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/eric…
http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/is-c…
He should be thrown up against a wall and pummeled, this smug four-eyed douchebag.