"It's a good bet that by now the entire foreign policy cosmos -- from "the Blob" to the 27-year-old reporters -- has read the New York Times Magazine profile of Deputy National Security Advisor Benjamin Rhodes, "The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru."
...Freighted with the far-reaching effects of a major treaty, the Iran deal was never submitted by Obama to the Senate for ratification as a treaty.
Framed as an agreement with Iran, it was never signed by Iran.
Sold by the administration as a transparent deal, it is turning out to be a slush heap of secrets.
The real blob in this drama is the rolling sludge of presidential over-reach,
As the Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo reports, leading members of Congress are calling on President Obama to fire Rhodes "over accusations the White House intentionally misled lawmakers and the American public about the contents of last summer's comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran."
...Why would Obama fire Rhodes?
If nothing else comes clear from this saga, it is that Rhodes has served for years as one of the chief ideological bag men of Obama's presidency.
If, under their ministrations the possibilities of free and open discourse are vanishing in Washington, replaced by bully pulpit narratives bouncing around the echo chamber, wasn't that the reason Obama gave Rhodes all that power in the first place?
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