Obama is hoping to strike fear into dissenting Democrats in the Senate, with his indictment of Senator Menendez.

Editor's notes:  I stated early last week, that the Menendez indictment,  just before the April 14  Senate committee's vote to demand that Obama do what is laid out in the Constitution,  was nothing short of an effort to "take the Senator out."  Understand that Robert Menendez is a strong supporter of Israel,  all patriots are,  you know,  and a stronger critic of Obama's end run around Congress as to the final approval of the Iranian deal.  

Well,  I am not the only one who sees this indictment for what it is,  the Administration's version of political hardball,  involving betrayal,  backstabbing at its very worst,  and a prime example of  Chicago thuggery. 

See this ABC report:

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl said the indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who is a strong supporter of Israel and opposes President Barack Obama going ahead with an Iran nuclear deal without congressional approval, will make it harder for Republicans to persuade other Democrats to go against the president and override a veto on Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) legislation calling for congressional oversight.

Martha Raddatz asked, “Sen. Robert Menendez who was indicted on corruption charges. He pleaded not guilty to counts of bribery, corruption, fraud. He’s temporarily stepping down as the ranking member of the foreign relations committee, right as Iran is coming up. He was the principal critic on Iran. Will it make a difference?”

Karl said, “If you had written this in a ‘House of Cards’ script, it would have been thrown out. The idea that the president’s most powerful democratic critic of the Iran deal goes down, indicted just before the deal is announced, nobody is suggesting a connection, but it sure does have an impact and it will it will be harder for Republicans to get a veto-proof majority to challenge the deal.”

All the more reason,  I say,  that the Republicans trash this treaty the day following the 2016 elections.   Actually,  it all makes little difference to me.  The Iranians will violate this unwritten agreement long before the 2016 elections and the poor,  gutless Democrats remaining in Congress,  will pay the price for Obama's stupidity.  Fine with me.  Election wise,  they have been on a sharp downward trend for six years.  So I guess I should be saying,  "Keep up the good work,  Mr Obama."