White House: Iran deal will proceed despite House action

Now 42 Democratic senators have announced their support for the deal after four new senators came out in favor of it Tuesday.

Their plan, which is apparently now the new strategy, is to vote on approving the deal, which will fail, leave a disapproval resolution as still an open option, and still put Democrats on the record supporting the deal, so if the deal goes south later, they have to run on that.

“That means reducing their nuclear stockpile … rendering harmless their plutonium reactor at Arak; it means essentially disconnecting thousands of centrifuges; it means cooperating with the IAEA”, Earnest said referring to the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency.

“Congress’s role here is not to provide their approval for the agreement, but they essentially had 60 days to play the spoiler”, Earnest said Thursday.

As a journalist asked if the President was “upset” that he could not get even one member of the opposition on board, the distinctive female voice calmly intoned: “Sorry, I’m not sure what you want me to change”. “We have to say, ‘Yes, and.’ Yes, and we will enforce it with vigor and vigilance”.

Republicans and some of Obama’s own Democrats say they deal is not strict enough. That’s a variation of President Ronald Reagan’s “trust and verify” ethos when he dealt with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The nuclear agreement reached with Iran will be implemented as scheduled after September 17, a deadline for congressional review of the accord, a White House official told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday night. The event is being sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots.