Obama Hands GOP Yet Another Crushing Defeat

Republicans must be getting pretty tired of continually losing to a "lame duck" president they hate with every fiber of their being (via the Oregonian):

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, one of the last undecided Democratic senators on the Iran nuclear deal, announced Tuesday that he would support the pact despite his distrust of the Iranian regime. ***

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., also announced his support for the nuclear deal on Tuesday.  All told, 41 Democrats now back the agreement, giving them the votes needed to successfully filibuster attempts by Republican leaders to send a resolution disapproving the Iran deal to the president's desk.

What I like the most about this particular Obama victory is the amount of effort the GOP put into destroying this deal. Indeed, not a single Republican in Congress will vote to uphold the agreement, despite the fact that some prominent Republicans outside of Congress (e.g., Colin Powell and Dick Lugar) support it.

The GOP apparently thought that its overwhelming opposition to this deal -- backed by well over $20 million worth of negative ads -- would carry the day. The Republicans' problem, of course, is that they chose -- literally on Day One of Obama's presidency -- to oppose the President on everything, even on issues the GOP once supported.  It was therefore very difficult for Republicans to gain much traction with regard to the nuclear deal, given that the American people have long been accustomed to universal GOP opposition to All Things Barack.

More on this here.