Democrats contend the Constitution is a living and
breathing document. To put it more
succinctly, the law of the land is nothing more than a living and breathing
suggestion. They’ll make it up as they
go along; the end justifies the means.
We expect conservatives to have more respect for the
law. So it was disconcerting when
republicans introduced and passed legislation that allowed both the Senate and the President
of the United States to forgo the Constitution which requires a two-thirds
majority vote to pass a treaty.
Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
crafted a bill that circumvented the constitutional process. Their contention, along with others, is that
this law was required to ensure Obama didn’t make a secret agreement with the
Iranians. That is completely
preposterous. Worse, this law set a
precedent.
Advocates for this Iranian agreement state this is
not a treaty. Well, what in the hell do
you call an agreement between two countries?
I believe that is called a treaty!
Bastardization of the English language continues!
Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review the premise
of the Corker Bill was completely and utterly absurd. Here is an excerpt:
As I’ve pointed out before, most recently in replying last
evening to the dissent from my column, there was no merit to the claim that it
was necessary to enact the Corker bill in order to ensure that Obama could not
cut a secret deal with Iran. To begin with, the Corker bill does not deliver
the transparency its sponsors suggest – it expressly anticipates and implicitly
approves the classification of sections of the deal. More to the point,
Congress has many constitutional powers at its disposal to pressure presidents
into revealing the terms of international pacts – there was no need for
lawmakers to compromise their powers over international agreements and
international commerce, as they have done by enacting the Corker bill, in order
to force the president to surrender a copy of a proposed deal with a foreign
power.
We can expect future presidents to
bypass the two-thirds treaty provision in the U.S. Constitution based on the
presumption that agreements between nations aren’t treaties. The geniuses who crafted this legislation
reversed rolls. Now, lawmakers have to override
an executive veto by a two-thirds majority vote!
All hail, that living and breathing
suggestion called the U.S. Constitution.
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