Republican Rebellion Attempts to Thwart John Boehner

House republicans and 5,000 tea partiers, rallied on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol alongside presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz (R-TX) to stop John Boehner’s plan to push Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.

A full-scale revolt against House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) — including a looming resolution that could come up for a vote at any time that would remove him from the speakership—has thrown into disarray the House GOP leadership’s previously carefully laid plans to push President Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran through Congress without a fight.

Amid a rebellion in the House GOP conference meeting on Wednesday morning, leadership canceled a previously scheduled rule vote that would have set up the House putting through a resolution of disapproval of the president’s Iran deal under the terms of legislation previously signed into law from Sens. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Ben Cardin (D-MD). This all happened as a result of an argument furthered by Reps. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) and Pete Roskam (R-IL) that Congress shouldn’t even vote on the Corker-Cardin resolution, either approving or disapproving of the Iran deal, since the president has not yet complied with the law regarding the release of text of the deal including “side deals” cut with Tehran.

Politico’s Jake Sherman reported midday on Wednesday about a new plan cooked up by House leadership that he later reported via Twitter that Pompeo and Roskam say they support.

“They are moving toward voting on a measure asserting Obama did not submit all elements of the agreement with Iran, a concept first raised by Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) and Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), a former member of GOP leadership,” Sherman, a close confidante of Boehner’s office, wrote of the new Boehner plan. “Second, Republicans are working on a bill to try to prevent Obama from lifting sanctions against Iran. Third, the House would vote on a resolution to approve of the Iran pact. The original plan was to vote on a disapproval resolution.”

This came after a wide scale full rebellion by House Republicans conference-wide—with five thousand Tea Partiers rallying on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol—against Boehner’s push on this matter alongside 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, fellow candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) , former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and several other top conservatives on the hill.

“Barack Obama clearly has violated the statute that he signed just a few short months ago that requires the president to submit to Congress all Iran-U.S. agreements plus all side agreements with third parties, which includes the International Atomic Energy Agency agreement which is critical to the verification of whether or not Iran is complying with the terms of the agreement or not,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) told Breitbart News while backstage at the rally.

I think that is a reasonable argument to not have a floor vote on the agreement itself until such time as Barack Obama has communicated to the United States Congress, as required by law, all the pertinent information in those side deals. If Barack Obama does not submit those materials, then under that very same statute it is a violation of the law for Barack Obama to relieve the economic sanctions that are on Iran. If Barack Obama does relieve those economic sanctions in violation of the law, then I believe he sets himself up for having committed an impeachable offense.

What in President Obama’s history as a politician makes people think he cares about impeachment? He’s proven on more than one occasion that he’s up for anything that might destroy America, and it would seem that John Boehner feels the same. Now that he’s revealed his true colors, let’s hope the GOP can remove him from speakership and start taking the necessary steps to restore the once great political party.

Source: breitbart.com