On the recordJuly 22, 2015
Mr. President, I have come to talk about what I think we have reached here--a tipping point in terms of President Obama's legacy. Recently, Jimmy Carter emphatically charged that President Obama has weakened us and brought us less respect everywhere in the world. When President Carter makes a statement such as that, I don't think President Obama should be spiking the football in the Rose Garden. Why do you think President Carter made those statements? Maybe he has looked at the legacy over the last 6 years, as many of the American people have. Ukraine is on fire. China is threatening its neighbors. Al Qaeda is stronger than ever. ISIS is massacring Christians and Muslims with genocidal savagery the likes of which we haven't seen since the Second World War. The Jewish people are facing the greatest threat since the Holocaust. The President got this deal with the ayatollahs, no matter how dangerous and no matter how destabilizing the final accord is. He has claimed a victory, and the media vanguards are right behind him, and he is going to late-night comedy cable shows to build his case. Ladies and gentlemen, this is no laughing matter. You are going to hear a lot of speeches over the next few weeks--in the 60 days we have to review this deal. There are going to be a lot of technical terms, a lot of things that quite honesty some Members of Congress don't fully understand.…





