The House must sue to block illegal Iranian nuke pact

The House must stop President Obama from implementing the Iranian nuke pact on Dec. 15.

Just as it has been granted standing to sue him for faulty implementation of ObamaCare, it must now stop him from granting Iran a pathway to the Bomb.

{mosads}Because this “deal” is interwoven with Obama’s Islamophilic foreign policy, undermining his alliance with Iran and Russia could finally unravel what has proven to be a series of failed “friendship” gambits.

Therefore, a model filing was drafted, drawing from thirteen serial-essays initiated in May, culminating on September 29, summarized on October 2, and recapitulated last week (page 6). 

Note the cascade of reasons why the House, if not the Senate, must block the pact:

·        It has not been signed by anyone—including an Iranian—so it is unenforceable.

·        It is a treaty rather than an executive (-legislative) agreement—because it is a long-term diplomatic covenant, not a short-term commercial deal—but it was never ratified by the Senate.

·        It undermines American support for Israel’s right to exist and survival, ignoring the “sense” of Congress and this country’s Judeo-Christian tradition.

·        It was improperly implemented through the Corker-Cardin Bill due to fundamental misrepresentations and withheld data.

·        It violates the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

·        Neither the pact nor Corker-Cardin contains a “severability” clause and, thus, if any component of either document is flawed, the entire pact cannot be portrayed as having been approved.

The House has not been idle. 

·        Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) successfully sponsored the resolution declaring Corker-Cardin to be null-and-void.

·        Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) introduced a resolution declaring that Obama’s default renders the Corker review process moot and that this pact should be treated as a treaty.

·        Rep. Michael Pompeo (R-Kan.) just released an exchange of revelatory and damning letters with the State Department.

Also, Andrew C. McCarthy has chronicled efforts by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)—detailed in a letter he wrote to Sen. McConnell (R-Ky.)—that concluded the pact could be derailed by targeting bankers.

Exemplifying how Congress can remedy identified concerns—after U.S. officials concluded the Iran pact had violated federal law constraining foreign subsidiaries of domestic corporations—Cruz introduced the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps Terrorist Designation Act (S.2094). It both expresses the sense of Congress that it meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization and should be so designated by the Secretary of State, but it also mandates that the State Department either concur or specify which criteria have not been met.

Amidst this under-reported activity, it is necessary to divulge why this amateur blogger “went dark” for two months.

Efforts were made to prompt Washington “insiders” to network, so as to generate pressure to follow-through on former-Speaker Boehner’s (R-Ohio) observation that a lawsuit “is very possible”; procrastinators blamed turmoil until Speaker Ryan (R-Wis.) had been elected.

Fundraising e-mails were repeatedly received from such organizations as the American Jewish Congress and United Against Nuclear Iran, but the former never offered a specific proposed intervention and the latter has been reduced to warning against commerce with the mullahs.

In contrast, Tea Party Patriots distinguished itself as a mature force, not only publicly (when it sponsored the D.C. rally to highlight the flaws in the pact), but also privately (manifest during weekly teleconference updates by its chair, Jenny Beth Martin, and its lobbyist, Bill Pascoe).

Other organizations expected to have pursued this dire concern aggressively reacted to receipt of episodic telephone calls by exhibiting emotions ranging from polite acknowledgement to overt derision.

Thus, channeling Blanche DuBois (“Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”), I ask:  Let’s pressure Congress to enjoin Obama from implementing the Iran nuke capitulation…ASAP!

Sklaroff is a political activist and has been a Republican Committee person for more than two decades; he has litigated against implementation of the Master Settlement Agreement with the tobacco industry due to flawed oversight, against the creation of health insurer Highmark because it created a monopoly and monopsony, and against unconstitutional levels of public funding for two sports stadiums in Philadelphia.