One of the many unanswered questions about P5+1 agreement with Iran is why so many Congressional Democrats are rallying behind the President on this issue when recent polls show the majority of Americans want Congress to reject the deal.
Part of the...
To piggyback off Guy's post showing that Americans overwhelmingly oppose Obama’s Iran deal, a new survey conducted by Government Business Council and Defense One shows that 66 percent of
the national security community also opposes the agreement.
Additionally, the national security publication also found that almost
an equal number–62 percent–feel that the country would be better off
rejecting the deal: The group’s outlook was even dimmer about the deal’s effect on U.S. allies. Most respondents said that it would have a somewhat or mostly negative impact on the security of Israel (71%), Saudi Arabia (67%), the Gulf Arab states (67%), Jordan (59%), Iraq (58%), and Europe (53%). […]
The survey was conducted by Defense One and Government Business Council, the research division of Government Executive Media Group, between August 20-27. The survey was emailed to a random sample of Defense One, Government Executive and Nextgov subscribers. There were 465 respondents from the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, State, and the military service branches. Of that total, 15 percent were active duty military and 7 percent were military reservists. Fifty-eight percent of respondents are at least GS/GM-13, or military equivalent. The margin of error is +/-3.29 percent.Cortney wrote about Secretary of State John Kerry's press conference earlier today, where he defended the agreement–saying it's based on "truth, not trust."
Before Dan Doherty departed, he wrote about how the Veterans Affairs estimated that hundreds of thousands
of their patients had died while waiting for care. At the time, Scott
Davis, a program specialist at the VA Health Eligibility Center,
divulged a report that was conducted within his department and that of
the VA Office of Analytics titled “Analysis of Death Services. It was
released in April of 2015. Now, we the Veterans Affair Inspector General’s report
has given the exact number: 307,000. That’s how many veterans have died
before their application had been process by the Eligibility Center
(via CNN):Hundreds of thousands of veterans listed in the Department of Veterans Affairs enrollment system died before their applications for care were processed, according to a report issued Wednesday.
The VA's inspector general found that out of about 800,000 records stalled in the agency's system for managing health care enrollment, there were more than 307,000 records that belonged to veterans who had died months or years in the past.
In a response to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs' request to investigate a whistleblower's allegations of mismanagement at the VA's Health Eligibility Center, the inspector general also found VA staffers incorrectly marked unprocessed applications and may have deleted 10,000 or more records in the last five years.
In one case, a veteran who applied for VA care in 1998 was placed in "pending" status for 14 years. Another veteran who passed away in 1988 was found to have an unprocessed record lingering in 2014, the investigation found.
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.