It looked like Barack Hussein Obama was thwarted in his attempt to make foreign relations policy on his own, but maybe not. Andrew McCarthy of the National Review says there is no constitution power in the bill.

“… the Constitution puts the onus on the president to find 67 Senate votes to approve an international agreement, making it virtually impossible to ratify an ill-advised deal. The Corker bill puts the onus on Congress to muster 67 votes to block an agreement [by issuing a Resolution of Disapproval which Liberals can defeat or Obama can veto]. Under the Constitution, Obama’s Iran deal would not have a prayer. Under the Corker bill, it would sail through… Congress is supposed to make the laws we live under… We seem to have forgotten that the point of the Constitution is not to accomplish great things; it is to prevent government from doing overbearing or destructive things. That a lawless president would undertake to eviscerate these [constitutional] constraints is to be expected. But is he really much worse than an entrenched political class that anxiously forfeits its powers to stop him?” — Andrew C. McCarthy is a policy fellow at the National Review Institute. His latest book is Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417128/corker-bill-isnt-victory-its-constitutional-perversion-andrew-c-mccarthy

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