GOP "leadership" caves on Iran

Andy McCarthy reports the bad news at PJ Media:

Senator Barbara Mikulski has announced that she will vote in favor of President Obama’s Iran deal. Sen. Mikulski’s support is critical because she becomes the 34th Democrat to announce that she will vote yea. Under the Corker framework so ingeniously conceived by Republican leadership in Congress, this means Obama’s deal cannot be defeated – under the legislation Congress is deemed to endorse the agreement unless it can muster a now unattainable 67 Senate votes (and a similar two-thirds of the House) to enact a resolution of disapproval over Obama’s veto.

It is worth repeating that Republicans rationalized this abdication of their duty to use their constitutional powers to block Obama’s empowerment of America’s sworn enemies by claiming that the legislation ensured that Congress would get to review the deal. This, of course, was always preposterous.

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Good job, Mr. President, Sen. Mikulski, congressional Democrats, and GOP leadership. What better way to “reaffirm our commitment to the safety and security of Israel” than to conceive and grease the wheels for a deal that gives breathtaking aid and comfort to its enemy – and ours.

Read the rest here. The Sept. 9 rally protesting the Iran “deal” in DC is still on, but sadly, it looks like the fix is already in.

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Trump and Cruz headline Sept. 9 Rally Against Iran “Deal”

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Stop the Iran “deal” Rally in DC Wednesday, September 9

Sen. Ted Cruz & Donald Trump will headline the Tea Party Patriots rally against the Iran “Deal” on September 9 in DC on the West Lawn of the US Capitol. There is a full report at Breitbart.

Our friends with the Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party are organizing a bus that would leave from Sam's Club parking lot in Ontario (suburb of Mansfield) on Tuesday September 8, and return early Thursday morning, September 10.  This allows everyone to sleep while traveling and avoid Washington's expensive hotel fees. The organizers will need about 40 passengers to break even. Cost per person is probably in the $100-$120 range. For details, email Cleveland Tea Party Patriots and we will forward your inquiry.


For a sobering analysis of the real consequences of the Iran “deal,” here’s Amb. John Bolton’s opinion in National Review. 

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Chuckle of the Day

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Even The Onion can't make this stuff up. The headline from Allahpundit at Hot Air says it all:

Blast off: 

Shaky Jeb Bush campaign 

ready to soar 

thanks to coveted 

Eric Cantor endorsement

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End the Iran Nuclear Deal * Thurs., Aug. 27 LOCATION CORRECTION

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UPDATE 8/26: Please note location correction below.

Please join fellow patriots in rallying & visiting Congressional offices across the states in protest of the Iran Nuclear Deal this Thursday August 27th.

We are calling for everyone & anyone to join us at Senator Sherrod Brown's office to tell him to stop President Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal.

Senator Sherrod Brown has shown he does not understand the deal and is currently voting in support of Iran getting nuclear weapons within 10 years.

Date: Thursday, August 27, 2015

Time: 12:00pm Noon

Location: Senator Sherrod Brown's Office

Date: Thursday, August 27, 2015

Time: 12:00pm Noon

Address: 801 West Superior Ave Cleveland, OH

Map: Click Here 

Brings signs to wave outside and letters to deliver to his office.  

Here is the link to a tool kit to help.

Lorain County patriots are visiting Sen. Brown's Lorain office on Thursday at 200 West Erie Ave., Suite 312, Lorain, OH. 

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STOP IRAN NOW RALLY

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Forwarded from some of our friends:

STOP IRAN NOW RALLY

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2015

(tomorrow)

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

JACOBS PAVILION at NAUTICA

2014 Sycamore Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Downtown Cleveland - West Bank of the Flats

Keynote Speaker

CLARE LOPEZ

Center for Security Policy

Event Sponsored

by

ACT for America Cleveland Chapter / Republican Jewish Coalition

Center for Security Policy / Cuyahoga County Republican Party

Endowment for Middle East Truth

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Can you hear us now?

For years patriots and liberty groups have been raising their voices to be heard by the political class: the recurring mantra since the 2009 rally in DC has been "Can you hear us now?" Nobody in DC has been listening. 

Say what you like about Donald Trump, he is getting the attention of the political elite and the mainstream media, and he has put legal vs illegal immigration on the front burner. He is getting heard. 

After consulting with Sen. Jeff Sessions (see Breitbart here), he announced his immigration policy on his website here. Tea Party Patriots are big on core values. Here are Trump's core values about immigration:

Real immigration reform puts the needs of working people first – not wealthy globetrotting donors. We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own. That must change. Here are the three core principles of real immigration reform: 

1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.

2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced. 

3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.

Read the rest here. It will be interesting to see if other candidates start to address the issue.

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Immigration rally in Painesville

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 From the News-Herald:

Immigration issue draws rally to Painesville Square

By Betsy Scott, The News-Herald

POSTED: 08/08/15, 6:09 PM EDT | UPDATED: 1 HR AGO

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The event was held by the Grassroots Rally Team of Ohio to help send the message “Americans first.”

The rally was organized on the heels of the fatal shooting of a Concord Township woman in her home and injury to a woman walking with her children on Lake Metroparks’ Greenway Corridor.

The suspect is Juan Emmanuel Razo, 35, of Painesville, who is believed to be a Mexican citizen in the country illegally. A local immigration advocacy group has said that Razo has been trying to get his green card for more than a decade. 

The Grassroots Rally Team of Ohio was begun in Lake County in 2007 and has held similar events elsewhere, said coordinator Arzella Melnyk of Kirtland.

“There has been a lot of information in the news lately about sanctuary cities; there have been tragedies that have happened to families and we just thought it was time to get together again,” she said, “just to let our elected officials know that we’re not happy with what’s going on, and we expect them to do what they’ve been elected to do, and that is to actually protect U.S. citizens, and that’s why we need our borders secured and immigration laws enforced.”

Speaker Ralph King, state coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots urged attendees to go to their local government officials and seek passage of resolutions in support of enforcing immigration laws.

“If you keep fighting it at the top, we’re not going to win,” he said.

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Robert Najmulski, a Federation for American Immigration Reform field representative who spoke at the event, envisions more people getting involved. 

“If things keep going the way they’re going, there’s going to be people sitting here all the way to the end of the park and all the way down the street,” he said. “That day is coming, they will follow you, but unfortunately it’s going to take things getting a lot worse.”

He noted that he is not anti-immigration nor anti-immigrant. 

“Enough is enough,” he said. “The political correctness about the whole thing, all of the heart-wrenching stories ... It’s got to get down to one thing. Just like I deal with my kids, (whom) I love … in my home, this is daddy’s laws, daddy’s rules; and in this country, we have rules, we have laws, and you will follow them or you will leave.”

Read the rest here.

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