AMERICANS REJECTING IRAN DEAL – AT 9:16 A.M. ET:  Polls continue to show an increase in the percentage of Americans rejecting the Iran nuclear agreement.  From The Hill: 

A majority of Americans opposes a recently reached international accord lifting sanctions on Iran in exchange for new limits on its nuclear program, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

Nearly six in 10 Americans, or 57 percent, oppose the nuclear deal, while 28 percent voice support for it in the national poll released Monday, in a 2-to-1 margin against the deal.

Republicans strongly oppose the deal brokered by the Obama administration, 86 to 3 percent, while Democrats support the top second-term foreign policy agenda item for President Obama, 52 to 32 percent.

A majority of Americans disapprove the way Obama is handling the situation in Iran (56 percent), compared with 35 percent who approve. A majority (58 percent) also thinks the deal makes the world less safe.

The Obama administration has worked to sell the deal, reached between the U.S., France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China with Iran, to a deeply skeptical American public and Congress.

An ABC/Washington Post poll out July 20 found that 56 percent support the deal and 37 percent oppose it, while a Pew Research Center poll released the following day found that a plurality of Americans familiar with the deal oppose it, 48 to 38 percent.

Another CNN/ORC International Poll released late last month found that 52 percent of Americans say Congress should reject the deal, compared to 44 percent who said it should be approved.

The latest survey from Quinnipiac was commissioned amid testimony on Capitol Hill from Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew in favor of the deal.

COMMENT:  This is an issue where common sense can easily be applied.  If the deal were so good, so beneficial to the nations surrounding Iran, or threatened by Iran, why does John Kerry have to go to these nations and beg for their support?  If the deal were good, they'd be cheering.

But the deal isn't good.  It's terrible.  It guarantees us nothing but the ability to somewhat annoy Iran.  The Europeans like the deal because it means they can open business with Iran, which is their only goal.  The Europeans, to use Churchill's example, are people who feed the alligator in the hope that they'll be eaten last.

But the deal will go through.  Our Congress may reject it, but Obama has promised to veto the rejection.  It's unlikely that enough Democrats will defect to override the veto.  And so one of the most momentous agreements in modern diplomatic history will go into effect without the support of the American Congress, which I believe is unprecedented.

The problem is that Obama doesn't care.  He sees his legacy more in terms of what "the world" thinks than what America thinks.

August 4,  2015