THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

Ever since the announcement of of the Iran nuclear agreement, Reublican/Teabaggers have been whining about it in every way imaginable. And some of those ways have truly stretched the imagination. And now President Obama has given them a new reason to whine.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has scheduled a vote for Monday morning on a resolution endorsing the historic nuclear deal — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA — and the speed with which that vote has come up, so close after the deal’s signing, is rankling some in the U.S. Congress.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power circulated a draft resolution in support of the JCPOA to the 15- council members Wednesday, including the other permanent members of the UNSC (China, Russia, France, and the U.K.)

Some U.S. lawmakers questioned the timing of a UNSC vote before the Monday date was set.

“We are deeply concerned that your administration plans to enable the United Nations Security Council to vote on the agreement before the United States Congress can do the same,” said a statement to Obama released by Sens. Ben Cardin, D-Md., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “We urge you to postpone the vote at the United Nations until after Congress considers this agreement."

U.S. lawmakers voted in May to tie any final agreement to a subsequent Congressional review, a bill that Obama reluctantly signed after it became apparent that it was unlikely to successfully conduct the agreement without a review form Congress that many legislators demanded.

Under that legislation, Congress can register its opposition to the Iran deal, which would prevent Obama from lifting a number of sanctions that are key to making the deal work.

But the chief U.S. negotiator in the Iran talks, Wendy Sherman, rejected the idea Thursday that the U.S. should delay the U.N. vote or that it undermines Congressional review.

"It would have been a little difficult when all of the [countries negotiating with Iran] wanted to go to the United Nations to get an endorsement of this, since it is a product of the United Nations process, for us to say, ‘Well, excuse me, the world, you should wait for the United States Congress.’”

Sherman added that the council resolution allows the "time and space" for U.S. Congressional review before the measure takes effect.

One of the sadder parts of American exceptionalism is the exceptional number of whiny assed titty babies that get elected to Congress. Hopefully someday the adults will return and put the WAATB back in their playpens.