{"id":10961,"date":"2013-11-23T23:15:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T07:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10961"},"modified":"2013-11-24T00:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T08:44:23","slug":"obama-derangement-syndrome-sen-cornyn-responds-to-news-of-a-nuclear-deal-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10961","title":{"rendered":"Obama Derangement Syndrome: Sen. Cornyn Responds To News Of A Nuclear Deal With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was gonna write up something funny about Republicans saying that the nuclear deal with Iran was an attempt by Obama to distract from health care. But reality <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCornyn\/status\/404448260468641792\" target=\"_blank\">beat me to the punchline<\/a> &#8211; again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/GOP\/cornyn-iran.jpg\" alt=\"John Cornyn\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10962\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why is it always someone from Texas? So John Cornyn, the number two Republican in the senate, thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/kerry-in-geneva-raising-hopes-for-historic-nuclear-deal-with-iran\/2013\/11\/23\/53e7bfe6-5430-11e3-9fe0-fd2ca728e67c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">this deal<\/a>, that has been in the works for months, was concocted as a scheme to divert attention from a bad news cycle about the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare). And furthermore, Cornyn is seriously asserting that President Obama somehow got Iran, Germany, France, England, Russia, and China to participate in the deception. If Obama could pull that off he would deserve to go down in history for that alone.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement put together by Secretary of State John Kerry is a hardball deal that requires Iran to neutralize existing stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, abandon high-tech centrifuges, cease construction and operations at their plutonium reactor, and consent to intrusive inspections. Plus, it leaves most sanctions in place until Iran demonstrates that it is in compliance. It&#8217;s everything on our wishlist, yet this goofball thinks the whole thing is an elaborate distraction from a glitchy website.<\/p>\n<p>I swear, it just doesn&#8217;t pay to try to do satire anymore.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/News-Corpse\/117899091558228?v=wall\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Like me on Facebook\">Be Sure To \u201cLIKE\u201d News Corpse On Facebook<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was gonna write up something funny about Republicans saying that the nuclear deal with Iran was an attempt by Obama to distract from health care. But reality beat me to the punchline &#8211; again. Why is it always someone from Texas? So John Cornyn, the number two Republican in the senate, thinks that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[183,614,1066],"class_list":["post-10961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-barack-obama","tag-john-cornyn","tag-obamacare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/cornyn-iran.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2QN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29203,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29203","url_meta":{"origin":10961,"position":0},"title":"The Most Hilariously Delusional Response To The Iran Nuclear Arms Negotiations","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/14\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In the early hours of Tuesday, July 14, 2015, an announcement was made that Iran had agreed to a deal with the United States (and England, France, Germany, Russia, and China) restricting their ability to advance any weapons related nuclear programs. 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