Op-ed:
First Step Taken…More Steps To Come
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Googl

  

Author's Update: Early this morning, October 13th, Hamas started to release the 20 living hostages with the first seven released at around 1am EST with the others soon thereafter.

 

...So as I started to write this article, both Israel and Hamas have agreed on the “first phase” of what in actuality is a Gaza “ceasefire deal”...with the word “ceasefire” being key as in no way is this yet an actual finalized, signed on the dotted line, peace deal. Why so...because Hamas is still getting away with issuing demands that they say must be met most especially before all the hostages, both dead and alive, are released. Also, Hamas is still vacillating on full disarmament as well as their being banned from holding any office in what will be Gaza's new governing body.

Simply, while agreeing on a “ceasefire” and a few other points, Hamas has yet to formally surrender. And while some try to claim that in their agreeing to some things Hamas, in a way, is surrendering while at the same time “saving face,” but that is actually not the case. Why so...because when an enemy officially surrenders to the victor...which is the true first touch point to peace...it transfers control of its combatants, territory, and armaments to the now victor...think World...Read entire article here.

Op-ed: 

First Step Taken...More Steps To Go   

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Googl

  

Author's Update: Early this morning, October 13th, Hamas started to release the 20 living hostages with the first seven released at around 1am EST with the others soon thereafter.

Let me start by saying that I herald President Donald J.Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and all others true friends of the Jewish State of Israel who had a hand in brokering this what has now turned into a “phased-in” peace deal. And I herald Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for this one man tried to save a nation against what seemed to be, at times, insurmountable odds including opposition from certain segments of the Israeli people, with some hostage families sadly included. And while it pains me to say this, the fact does remain that sometimes one must unite behind their country's leader no matter the personal circumstances involved, and understand that sometimes the horrors of war alone dictates that some of the few might have to be sacrificed in order to save the many.

And also know I firmly believe that Israel has no better friend than our great President Trump who worked tirelessly to bring an end to the Israel v. Hamas war...a war started solely by Hamas...a war whose end no matter signatures placed on a piece of paper still do not assure that a lasting peace will take hold...a war that if not for Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's terrorist appeasement and deals done while they were in office, is a war that might never have happened in the first place.

So as I started to write this article, both Israel and Hamas have agreed on the “first phase” of what in actuality is a Gaza “ceasefire deal”...with the word “ceasefire” being key as in no way is this yet an actual finalized, signed on the dotted line, peace deal. Why so...because Hamas is still getting away with issuing demands that they say must be met most especially before all the hostages, both dead and alive, are released. Also, Hamas is still vacillating on full disarmament as well as their being banned from holding any office in what will be Gaza's new governing body.

Simply, while agreeing on a “ceasefire” and a few other points, Hamas has yet to formally surrender. And while some try to claim that in their agreeing to some things Hamas, in a way, is surrendering while at the same time “saving face,” but that is actually not the case. Why so...because when an enemy officially surrenders to the victor...which is the true first touch point to peace...it transfers control of its combatants, territory, and armaments to the now victor...think World War II here. And only after actual peace treaties are signed...as in the “Paris Peace Treaty of 1947” regarding the European theater of war, and the “Treaty of Peace with Japan” signed in 1951 regarding the Pacific theater of war...is lasting peace between former enemies assured.

Simply, what we are currently witnessing in regards to this what is, at least for now, but a “ceasefire” deal is the hoped for possibility for peace. And with the word “maybe” now coming into play one must understand that only treaties between once enemies formally ends a war. In fact, without a  true “treaty,” without its legally binding agreements which do encompass international law, peace itself is not really attained. Words semantics to some, but reality's sad truth.

Now as for the hostages themselves...specifically the remaining hostages soon to be released along with the remains of those starved and tortured who died while in captivity...Hamas has told the hostage negotiators that they may not immediately or ever be able to locate some of those persons remains. In fact, Gal Hirsch, senior Israeli official in charge of hostages, has stated that in the coming days an “international team” will be formed to try to locate and recover the bodies (or more likely the body parts) of any Israeli hostages still unaccounted for. And to that might I add that if the Israel-hating U.N. is involved in any way in said search team, you just know it will not turn out well for the hostage's families still awaiting the return of their lost loved ones remains.

And in Hamas then not affording the hostage families any physical and emotional closure it becomes but an inhumane victory of sorts for Hamas. And this, in my opinion, is but yet another way of Hamas channeling their still all-consuming inner hatred for both Israel and the Jewish people.

Why so...because like with Hitler's Nazi Germany, degrading the physical being of the person themselves is part of the calling card of Hamas as well as other Jew-hating groups like them. And said hatred is ingrained so deep within their very being that said hatred will continue on, in one form or another, probably for generations to come. No simple “ceasefire deal”...no what is erroneously being heralded as a “peace deal”...will ever be Hamas' “come to Jesus” moment if you will. Nor will it soften the hearts and minds of the almost two thousand Palestinian prisoners and detainees (security prisoners they're being called) being exchanged for the now believed to be but 20 still alive hostages...with many of those exchanged being Hamas sympathizers, convicted terrorists, October 7th operatives, and other assorted Palestinians detained since the start of the war.

However, and thankfully, this prisoner exchange does not include notable terrorists Marwan Barghouti, Ahmad Sa’adat, Hassan Salameh or Abbas al-Sayed, the very four persons whose releases Hamas had desperately sought.

But what should not be forgotten in this discourse, whether it be the peace deal itself or even just its implementation, is the fact that those with a still 6th century mindset cannot seem to exist...or even want to exist...in what is a 21st century world.

Why so...because lasting peace, let alone acceptance of one another's differences cannot be obtained by those whose 6th century mindset is still that of what it was when they were captured...simply stated, “leopards cannot change their spots” as the old and ever truthful saying goes.

But now, and again as I write this, we await what should be Monday's agreed upon date for the hostage and prisoner exchanges; Israeli's partial IDF withdrawal from Gaza; the increasing of humanitarian aid into Gaza; and President Trump's trip to both Israel and Egypt where he on Netanyahu's invitation will address the Israeli Knesset and then go to Egypt to be present for the said hostage and prisoner exchange. And here know that while President Trump was foolishly denied the Nobel Peace Prize, the world certainly knows that without Trump's tireless efforts, this what is in actuality a “ceasefire/phased deal” would not and could not have been reached.

And to that being said I add that the U.S. is currently in the process of deploying up to 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor both the “ceasefire deal” and Hamas' at least stating to disarm after Netanyahu rightfully declared that, “Hamas will be disarmed in the upcoming stages of the agreement—either the easy way or the hard way,”

 

Simply, threats and a show of physical strength do work especially when justified, for in this case Hamas still cannot be and probably never will be trusted to abide in full to any deals made. Why so...first because no matter how it appears on the surface Iran still pulls Hamas' strings, and second because as tens of thousands of Palestinians have begun returning to what is left of northern Gaza, numerous media and eye witness verified accounts and reports confirm that among the returning are some Hamas police officials who are trying to “reassert their authority,' something that must never be allowed to happen.

 

Also, certain remaining factions of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) are still saying that they reject “any foreign guardianship” of the Gaza Strip, while a number of Gaza officials continue calling for an independent, international investigation into what they consider to be war crimes and genocide committed by Israel during its war with Hamas. And something not to be forgotten, especially now, is that the “United Nations Relief and Works Agency” (UNRWA) has called for all crossings into Gaza to be opened, saying that there are 6,000 aid trucks ready to reach Gaza in hours...that is if one believes anything the UN has to say...that is unless the remaining Hamas operatives don't “appropriate,” if you will, the aid for themselves as they have done so over the years.

 

But instead of worrying about what the UN or any of their organizations think, what needs to be worried about is the fact that Palestinian sources in Israel have reported what they call “growing security chaos” in the Gaza Strip, with Hamas gunmen... obviously Hamas has not yet and probably never will surrender their weapons... now clashing with local “clans” in both Gaza's Beit Lahia and Sabra neighborhoods, with the son of a Hamas official reportedly being killed in said clash. Bet it's only a matter of time before Israel will somehow be blamed for that.

 

“To all the Hamas rats, your tunnels are destroyed, your rights no longer exist. Repent before it’s too late — there is no Hamas from today onward.” So said one Hussam al-Astal, commander of an armed group now opposed to Hamas in Khan Yunus in southern Gaza.

 

And while it is a hopeful sign that there are Palestinians who are now rising up against Hamas, and with a growing number of Palestinians simply tired of a war they know that they cannot physically win, the fact remains that unless true peace comes to the region more blood will most certainly continue to be shed, and it won't be by Israel's hand, but by the Palestinians people themselves.

 

So now as the Trump brokered, Netanyahu backed “ceasefire”...replete with hoped for future steps soon be taken...starts to take hold and slowly inches its way towards its ultimate goal of peace and stability in the Middle East, remember all players involved are not truly on the same page. For example, Qatar, the country who gave safe harbor to cowardly Hamas leadership who hightailed it out of Gaza when the going got tough...nor will true peace itself ever be attained as long as fundamental issues and differences remain unresolved between Israel and Hamas.

 

And here let me say that what really is needed, in my opinion, is for an actual long-term political based framework to be brokered solely by the two main parties involved...as in Israel and Hamas...to help in trying to resolve what are their still ongoing deep-seated differences no matter the “ceasefire” now in place, for unless they do so one-to-one the risk for potential future conflicts most assuredly still exists.

Remember, as I previously stated, it's treaties that actually bring finality to a given war with everything else being but window dressing to some degree that helps to hide important truths that do need to be told. Peace through strength is what ends wars, peace through forced capitulation only sweeps one side's bloodlust temporarily under the proverbial rug. Case closed. 

Copyright © 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

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Investigative Report: Part 2 of 3
Obama's Iran 'Deal' Nothing But Caliphate Cover...Part 2 of 3 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on http://cprworldwidemedia.net/

In Part 1...and please click on this link
http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2015/09/14/obamas-iran-deal-nothing-but-caliphate-cover-part-1-of-3/ and read this part before going any further...of our 3-part investigative report, my Right Side Patriots partner and friend Craig Andresen laid out the most likely scenario that will surely to lead to World War III. And with Republican leaders acquiescing to Obama to allow a minority of Democrats to give the go-ahead to the very bad Iran deal, instead of requiring the constitutionally mandated two-thirds majority needed to pass a treaty...and know this deal is actually a treaty...now specifics have come to light that could and should render this deal null and void.

Starting with the fact that Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization...via Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s nuclear program...last Saturday announced the finding of new 'high reserves' of uranium ore deposits AFTER claiming for months...if NOT years...that they were near the end of their supplies of usable quality uranium. Saying they will soon begin extracting said uranium at a new mine site in the central province of Yazd, it must be noted that Obama's entire negotiations with Iran...in fact the entire Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the P5+1 world powers...was based solely upon the now proven to be false premise that Iran had to import uranium ore, that they had NO more of their own. And though the JCPOA agreement has 're-purposed' if you will some of Iran's nuclear facilities, it has basically left Iran’s nuclear program intact, never mind that this 'sudden' find alone should in good conscience negate the entire deal...especially with Salehi's statement that "I cannot announce (the level of) Iran's uranium mine reserves. The important thing is that before aerial prospecting for uranium ores we were not too optimistic, but the new discoveries have made us confident about our reserves."

“Confident about their reserves”...reserves announced oh so conveniently only AFTER last week's 58-42 Senate vote where opponents of the deal failed to make it through a procedural hurdle, which was (assumed to be) the last chance for said opponents to block the nuclear deal from becoming law. Four Democrats and 54 Republicans voted to end debate and advance to a final vote with 42 Democrats opposed. And now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised to hold a second vote next week to end debate on the 'motion to disapprove' the deal, however, there is slim to NO chance that any additional Democrats will change their 'ney' vote...what with Democrats always seeming to stick together to vote along party lines instead of voting their conscience...as in voting for what is in the best interest of America. And that is truly amazing what with the new information presented by Iran regarding their supposedly 'newly found' uranium ore deposits.

And so tonight at 6PM EST the Senate will hold a 'cloture' vote...a vote requiring the support of three-fifths of duly chosen and sworn Senators, or 60 Senators if there is NO more than one vacancy. And this is the only formal procedure Senate rules provide for breaking a filibuster...a filibuster being an attempt to block or delay Senate action on a bill or other matter...and per this vote the Senate can limit consideration for Obama's very bad deal to 30 additional hours of debate. And as it stands now, Congress has until Thursday to 'disapprove' this deal or declare that Obama has violated the terms of the 'so-called' Corker Bill...actually an Obama-backed, anti-constitutional piece of legislation that was supposedly passed to assure both Congress and 'We the People' that each and every word of this very bad deal would be seen by Congress BEFORE any vote on it was taken...which we now find out it has NOT been. But because Obama has wheeled and dealed and basically 'bought' the Democratic votes needed to garner a veto-proof 'resolution of disapproval,' the Corker Bill turns out to be, as expected, NOT worth the paper it was written on.

But NO matter the bill's overall uselessness for Obama still must by law meet certain basic terms and conditions of said bill...with the first condition being the mandate that he provide the complete... with 'complete' being the key word here...wording of the Iran deal for Congress to peruse before any vote is taken and he simply has NOT. In fact, the deal Obama has given Congress to pass is NOTHING but a lie and full of needed-to-know omissions, meaning if Congress actually did the job they were elected to do, the 60-day timeline for a congressional vote actually should become negated in full. And what has Obama deliberately omitted or simply NOT disclosed in this very bad deal that should raise 'red flags' to full mast..first being the all-important fact that Iran has now achieved a full nuclear fuel cycle, ranging from the extraction of uranium ore to enrichment and production of fuel rods for nuclear reactors. NOT good folks NOT good at all. Now couple this with the fact that the IAEA in NO way can estimate the amount of uranium being enriched as per Iran's suddenly found new uranium deposits.

Second, how about as Craig reported in Part 1 of this report...secret deals being made between Iran and North Korea...proving what we both have said all along...that Iran already has nuclear war heads courtesy of North Korea and now coming to light is the fact that Iran has purchased Russian cargo planes to haul both warheads and 'large diameter engines'...used in ICBM delivery systems...to Tehran...and again like Craig stated...Obama has known about this since September 2014 with NOT a word of this told to either Congress or 'We the People.'

But regardless of what has happened in the past this new uranium 'sudden' discovery of Iran's announced just two days after the first vote was taken...and know that Iran had the announcement perfectly timed with Obama for after the vote... does hold the key to NOT just a 'retake' of the votes already taken but to a total negation of the entire deal from both our end and the P5+1's end as well. As per The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, a 'motion to reconsider' allows Senators...and I'm only addressing Senators here as their vote was the one just taken...to take a second look at their voting decisions allowing them to either affirm or change a vote cast and can only be done by Senators on the prevailing... meaning the winning side. This means that Democratic Senators still can reevaluate and recast their votes on this very bad deal based upon Iran's 'sudden' new announcement. And while there is a time frame involved for said action to be taken...either on the day of the vote or two in-session days later...due to the nature of what is involved the time frame can be 'tweeked' a bit with a majority vote I'm sure as Congress as well as 'We the People' have been deliberately and maliciously duped by our president.

When the vote to 'reconsider' is passed the Senators then recast their votes accordingly and it can still be reconsidered on the House end as well. And in light of the fact that the final vote on this very bad deal has yet to be taken...and until the 'motion to reconsider' is 'disposed of' or completely lapses...the effect of the original vote...either today's cloture vote or last week's 'motion to disapprove' vote...is suspended and NO further action may be taken to implement it. In fact, a special form of 'reconsider' is used to prevent a temporary minority from taking action that would be opposed by the majority, but whether that is affected by the new 'in-Obama's-favor' voting procedures Harry Reid and crew put into place is still to be seen. However, this is something Congress needs to look into as a possible way to force either a re-vote on votes taken to date regarding this very bad deal or to possibly be a way to legally override Obama and scrub the deal in its entirety...but all this depends on Democrats deciding to do the right thing instead of their passing a bill which many have said is questionable at best.

In Friday's Part 3 of our investigative report Craig and I will address both today's cloture vote and Thursday's final vote, but know that unless some Senators wake up and see that they've been had by a man whose loyalties are NOT with America but are with the enemy, a new dawn of a new nuclear age has been born and the outcome of that birth will NOT be pretty.

Op-ed:

Falling from Political Grace...Falling into the Arms of the Enemy
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

Two all-important stories in the news right now...one an ongoing national disgrace...the other a possible harbinger of World War III.

Story one shows that even a Clinton can fall from Democratic political grace as the party faithful are now rightfully calling into question presidential hopeful Hillary 'What Does It Matter' Clinton’s honesty and trustworthiness, and many polls are showing the same trend as her favorability rating drops to an almost all-time low. From her once being a shoe-in to get the Democratic nomination, Hillary is now viewed favorably...according to a Langer Research Associates poll...by just 45% of Americans, a decrease of 7% points since just this past July, with 53% saying they did NOT have a favorable view of the once and forever infamous Secretary of State, and that's an 8% percentage point increase in the same time frame. And much to Hillary's chagrin, these numbers are close to her spring 2008 all-time low when she was viewed favorably by just 44% of Americans.

And to add insult to injury, the polls show avowed socialist Bernie Sanders...a man attracting more first-time caucus goers than Hillary...now closing the polling gap in Iowa where Hillary leads him by a margin of 37% to 30% among likely Democratic caucus goers, and that's according to a highly respected Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll. And Vice President 'Uncle Joe Bite-Me' Biden, who has NOT even announced a definitive run for the presidency yet, comes in at 14%. And all this translates into Hillary losing a full third of her Iowa supporters since May of this year. NOT good for the Clinton campaign folks...NOT good at all.

So what has led to Hillary's political fall from grace...in a word 'emails.' With almost 200 emails containing redacted classified information having been released to date, and with another 305 being 'flagged' for further review by the five intelligence agencies in charge of clearing Hillary's emails for public release, now comes this newest batch of emails...7,000 pages worth...released just this past Monday by the Department of State...a release that gives us a chance to see just how ugly this situation really is.

Ugly to the tune of about 125 emails in the latest batch being deemed classified. And while said 125 also appear in redacted form, they still clearly show Hillary discussing both what should be classified internal government operations as well as discussing government personnel on her private home server. And this is in addition to the previously released emails that pertained to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi... emails that even mentioned Ambassador Christopher Stevens by name...as well as including thousands of pages of emails covering other personal and what should have been and most likely was classified professional issues.

And when you add in that two inspectors general have already said that Hillary's in-box most certainly did contain material that was classified when it was sent and received, and that by the very act of redaction...something we've seen time and again with this anything but most transparent administration in history...the email scandal is even uglier than we first suspected. Remember, when classified emails are redacted...blacked out to be assured they remain unseen...to be second guessed...one thing you just know is that they are anything but mundane as Hillary claims, for the truth is that the mundane need NOT ever be redacted...period.

Hillary's claimed mundane emails are all intact save for a few private phone numbers and addresses but, for example, full and complete redaction becomes the order of the day in first, an email draft of Hillary's testimony on the New START treaty before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and second, in the entire text of an email composed of talking points needed for a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Now that one I can see why Hillary needed hidden for she, like Obama, is NO friend of Israel... remember who her closest confidant is...none other than Muslim Brotherhood shill Huma Abedin...need I say more.

And of course Hillary is denying any wrong doing as she makes light of the trouble she and her campaign is now in. Continuing to claim that NO emails on her account were marked as classified at the time she received them, Hillary is trying to make us believe...as she tries to convince herself...with words to the affect that she's “being pulled into an inter-agency fight that reflects a predisposition for secrecy among some in the intelligence community.”

To that all I can say is “LIAR” for Hillary has changed her email story more times than a 'certain' supposedly Republican candidate has changed his party affiliation. So to try and take the focus of this presidential campaign-ender, Hillary changed her statements regarding the 'sensitivity' of the emails more times than you can say Benghazi. Remember back when this scandal first broke and Hillary was forced to admit that she did indeed use a private server, but was quick to add that none of her correspondence dealt with national security secrets saying, “There is no classified material.” Well now she oh so conveniently says that the emails were NOT classified at the time she sent and received them as they did NOT “bare any classification markings”...her words NOT mine.

And just yesterday Brian Pagliano...the man who played and continues to play a critical role in this email scandal...and whom I and my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner and friend Craig Andresen said was the man who knows everything, set-up the server in question, and who was in collusion with Hillary right from the start...said he will 'take the fifth' when called to testify. The rat hole is getting stinkier and stinkier with each passing day and pretty soon the 'canaries' will surely start singing...to protect their own sorry butts that is.

Thankfully, Hillary has next month's hearing before Trey Gowdy and his committee to look forward to...sarcastically said of course...and know she has much explaining to do. But, like so many others, I look forward to watching Hillary squirm. And while she agreed to testify 'one time' and 'one time' only, I have a sneaky feeling that 'one time' to Hillary is NOT the same as it is to Trey Gowdy...meaning she best use the ladies room before she sits down because she ain't getting up for quite some time during her 'one time' on the stand...that I can guarantee.

As for the second story...one we need to keep a very diligent eye on...it is indeed a harbinger of World War III.

An Obama initiated harbinger that gives our traitor-in-chief a veto-proof coalition to protect his...YES his...Iranian nuclear deal...his sell-out... his capitulation...from being blocked by Congress even if Congress passes a 'resolution to disapprove' aimed at undercutting the deal. And with retiring Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski announcing on Wednesday her support for this very bad deal...even while admitting that "no deal is perfect, especially one negotiated with the Iranian regime'...Obama has secured the magic number '34'... the number needed as per the Constitution to sustain a veto. And as of now only two Democratic Senators...Chuck Schumer of New York and Bob Menendez of New Jersey...out of the six needed to override said Obama veto...have announced they will vote to oppose the deal...oppose it as they stand strong and cross party lines to oppose something they know in their heart is NOTHING but words on paper that Iran has NO intention of upholding.

And many Republicans are rightfully angry because first, they feel a deal of this magnitude should rightfully be afforded a final up-or-down vote; second, this nightmare of an agreement is actually a treaty and as per our Constitution a treaty must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate with the House NOT participating...now meaning that instead of having to get two-thirds of the Senate to approve, Obama acquiescers John Boehner and Mitch McConnell made it so that two-thirds of the Senate and the House has to override a veto; and lastly, just one-third of lawmakers in either chamber of Congress are making a decision against both the majority of Congress and 'We the People's' overwhelming across the political spectrum opposition.

So this deal...an Obama legacy-defining very bad deal...is now assured to become reality unless a miracle of conscience occurs and four more Democratic Senators have the guts and courage to stand strong against this miserable excuse of a president...a president who with this deal will have successfully armed Israel’s enemy...an enemy who has vowed time and again to wipe the Jewish State off the map...armed them with nuclear weapons, the missiles for their delivery, and with billions of dollars in sanctions relief most definitely earmarked for terrorism NOT just against Israel but against America as well.

And with Mikulski's vote, we now sadly have 34 Democratic traitors to both America and Israel... and sorry to say but the truth is that anyone who voted for these jokers is just as guilty as they are. And with the reality of Obama's pushing through such an important piece of foreign policy legislation without support from the majority of Congress and with NO...I repeat NO...backing from Republicans in the Senate, you just know we as a nation are in serious trouble. And that NOT only looks bad but is bad.

"Thirty-four votes are obviously enough votes for the president's veto to be upheld...[but]...That is not satisfactory for us. We do want to try to go further. We'll continue to persuade." So said John 'Swiftboat' Kerry in speaking about Mikulski's sellout that brought the last needed vote to push this nightmare through.

And now having reached that magic 34 number, Obama and crew are free to greedily work to garner the 41 votes needed to block any disapproval measure’s passage in the Senate, thus sparing Obama the embarrassment and bad press of having to veto it at all. But Obama probably will secure those votes because those we elected to do 'We the People's' bidding have instead decided to do the bidding of a man...a president...hell-bent on bringing our beloved America to her knees... good little islamist that he is.

And that folks...having an enemy occupying the White House...is the saddest thing of all.