Corker Iran Nuke Bill A Flawless Victory For President Obama

The big news on Tuesday, notwithstanding the odd Scooby Van sighting, was the White House’s decision to lift its veto threat on a Senate bill designed to provide oversight on the delicately-proceeding Iran nuclear deal. At Tuesday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest took about eleventy-billion questions trying to nail him down to a non-veto, which included a brief promotion for Earnest to hypothetical Senator, and his cumulative answers to those questions boiled down to this:

I think what I would describe this as is a compromise. And Congress has articulated very clearly and strenuously their desire to vote. And the proposal that’s been put forward to vote to vote later is a reasonable one and does reflect — along with all the other changes that we have called for — does reflect the kind of compromise that the President would sign.

Those changes, enumerated at length during the course of Tuesday’s briefing, included things like the removal of poison pills, shortening of the review period, and a clarification of Congress’ future role in the deal, were all still up in the air at that time, but the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday afternoon that included everything the White House asked for.

While reporting on the bill carries the strong implication that Congress has won the right to approve or deny the deal, what they’ve really won is nothing at all, a symbolic victory akin to…READ MORE

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