Graham threatens to cut UN funds if Obama tries "end-around" on Iran...
Posted by MinorLiberator 10 years, 1 month ago to Politics
This seems like an excellent "gauntlet" to thrown down right now. I don't know Congressional procedure well enough to say for sure, but it seems that Graham, along with some additional members, could make this happen. This not only seems right to me, but it's the kind of battle we might possibly win, unlike the war to repeal Obamacare righrt now.
Of course, Obama's a slippery SOB, and who knows exactly what he's going to try and do. In the very article his spokesman Earnest says that lifting sanctions "now" would not be part of any deal. And we can sure trust what he says.
And there's always the possibility of a "cave", but I think this is an issue the American people can readily understand, and I don't think cutting of funds to the UN would be seen as the "mean, nasty" thing that a government shutdown would be.
Of course, Obama's a slippery SOB, and who knows exactly what he's going to try and do. In the very article his spokesman Earnest says that lifting sanctions "now" would not be part of any deal. And we can sure trust what he says.
And there's always the possibility of a "cave", but I think this is an issue the American people can readily understand, and I don't think cutting of funds to the UN would be seen as the "mean, nasty" thing that a government shutdown would be.
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Because they are a socialist, statist organization who want a one world (camouflaged dictatorship) government and so are the elite who control the fedgov.
Can anyone on these boards explain to me how ANYTHING that the UN has done over, say the last 50 years or so that has produced a lasting benefit to our country?
It seems to me that our sole function at that August body is to provide funding for some new (or old) corrupt, hair-brained scheme. Why shouldn't we just tell the UN that we no longer want to play and that they have to move their headquarters out of New York. Greece might be a good spot...they could use the money. With the money we save, we could convert the present UN complex to the worlds' largest homeless shelter! (How could a liberal NOT like that?)
As I said I'm not sure of the exact machinations required to cut funds to the UN. If it's anything like approving the XL pipeline or repealing Obamacare, i.e., pass both House and Senate and then override the certain veto, then Graham need not have even opened his mouth. If it's something that can be done at the committee level, or, by a simple majority in Congess, I still think it's possible.
And if it is possible, then I don't see near the political risk that went along with shutting down Homeland Security. In times past (pre-2009 for some reason) there were times we did not pay our UN "dues" and I don't recall it was any big deal to the American people.
But, they may well cave, and we'll be stood up for the prom again.
(Next Cave)