The Most Equal Comrade once again renders Congress irrelevant

Important Krauthammer column today.  He starts by saying that he had figured - and figured his readers had figured - that his column of a couple of weeks ago characterizing the Iran deal as the worst diplomatic document in US history would be all he needed to say.  Then he read the text of what was actually agreed upon this week.  He notes the recently-added cave-ins, snuck in by Russia and China at the last minute: lifting of embargoes on conventional arms and missiles.  He also notes - as Major Garrett famously did at the MEC's presser - the absence of an agreement to release the four post-American hostages. Also no anytime, anywhere inspections.

He then puts the damper on the notion that the upcoming debate in Congress and among policy-minded citizens is going to be important:

The action now shifts to Congress. The debate is being hailed as momentous. It is not. It’s irrelevant. 

Congress won’t get to vote on the deal until September. But Obama is taking the agreement to the U.N. Security Council for approval within days . Approval there will cancel all previous U.N. resolutions outlawing and sanctioning Iran’s nuclear activities.

Meaning: Whatever Congress ultimately does, it won’t matter because the legal underpinning for the entire international sanctions regime against Iran will have been dismantled at the Security Council. Ten years of painstakingly constructed international sanctions will vanish overnight, irretrievably. 

Even if Congress rejects the agreement, do you think the Europeans, the Chinese or the Russians will reinstate sanctions? The result: The United States is left isolated while the rest of the world does thriving business with Iran. 

Yes, Congress must still very vocally give this monstrosity the thumbs-down when the moment arrives to do so.  But because the MEC is so enamored of international bodies and has such disdain for the nation over which he presides, its main value is going to be symbolic.