Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, "moderate" Republican, running for re-election in a blue state in a presidential year, has utterly lost his shit:
Under the Bob Corker legislation that recently passed, Congress can do a resolution of disapproval and the president can veto it. The only reason why the president supported the Corker legislation is because it allows him to get what he wants on Iran, which is to get nukes to Iran.
That's from a brand-new interview with Boston's WRKO and
shared by Buzzfeed. But this wasn't just one blurry throwaway line that Kirk can try to excuse away by claiming he misspoke. Oh no. The entire discussion focused on the Iran deal, which Kirk histrionically freaked over as two fawning hosts, enraptured by Kirk's previous service as a military intelligence officer, challenged exactly zero of his lunatic assertions.
Like, say, going full Godwin:
This is the greatest appeasement since Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
He is doing this because of his very poor understanding of history and what happened to Neville Chamberlain. And Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler, but the key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.
What will that war look like? Head below the fold to find out that—and much, much more!
So you see, Obama's going to force Israel to do the dirty work, because he's now "condemned his allies in Israel to taking military action against Iran." And we aren't talking conventional war, oh no. The nukes are gonna fall:
This agreement condemns the next generation to cleaning up a nuclear war in the Persian Gulf. It condemns our Israeli allies to further conflict with Iran.
Kirk knows that Congress has been outfoxed by the wily Obama, but he does see a silver lining here:
The president will make this a viciously partisan issue, leading most Democrats to stand with the Iranians and hopefully losing the next election on this point. He will ask the Democrats all to stand with Iran and make sure that we can't get two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate.
To repeat:
Because the president can veto it, he will turn this into a vicious partisan issue where his allies will all be forced to stand for Iranian terrorism and hopefully lose the next election.
Kirk's re-election chances aren't great (remember that whole Republican senator/blue state/presidential year thing), but here he's explained that he's hoping for a
deus ex centrifuge to bail him out. However, Kirk
also knows what happens to anyone who criticizes the administration a little too loudly about our Persian policy:
Bob Menendez has just been indicted maybe on the crime of being against the Iran deal, has been pretty much effectively silenced.
Good point! If only Obama had thought to toss Elizabeth Warren in the clink, that whole fast-track trade dealie would have just sailed on through Congress that much easier.
Kirk has done us a favor, though. He laid down a couple of markers:
My guess is they'll have nukes in a couple of years under this agreement, with the $100 billion Obama's going to give to the Iranians. They'll go on to the market as the most well-funded terrorists in history and buy whatever they want.
I think the Saudi Arabia nuclear program will start in full blast form tonight.
Since Kirk gave this interview on Tuesday, that means the Saudis must have started cranking up their enrichment program
last night. Can someone check? Also, please mark your calendar for July 14, 2017, when Kirk figures the Iranians will have learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
And it'll all be thanks to one dude:
Tens of thousands of people in the Middle East are gonna lose their lives because of this decision by Barack Hussein Obama.
Yep, that's Barack
Hussein Obama, siding with his Muslim bros in Iran over the U.S. of America. Mark Kirk is sounding the lonely alarm bell. Let's hope all of Illinois is listening to him—very closely.