President Barack Obama told Congress to be quiet regarding his “deal” with Iran over the latter’s nuclear weapons program. Now he’s sending his guy who sits in the Secretary of State’s chair to tell them directly.

[Secretary of State John] Kerry said he would brief House members on Monday and senators on Tuesday. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to take up the legislation on the same day.

The administration should be free to negotiate without interference until the June 30 deadline for a final agreement, Kerry said on CBS’ Face the Nation.

Kerry also said that Congress should “hold their fire” regarding the “deal” until it’s finalized.

The Corker-Menendez bill only would give Congress to the authority to approve or disapprove that finalized deal on an up or down vote. It wouldn’t even be relevant until there is a final deal on which to pass judgment. There’s no fire here to hold.

Is what’s being “negotiated” so fragile that enacting legislation that has effect only after negotiations have been completed would interfere with those negotiations? If that’s the case, just what is it that’s actually being negotiated, and with whom?

Oh, wait—just be quiet. Your Betters are on the job.

President Barack Obama really doesn’t like it when folks disagree with him.

Obama said that Arizona Senator John McCain (R, AZ) had suggested Secretary of State John Kerry’s explanations of the framework agreement in Iran were “somehow less trustworthy” than those of Iran’s supreme leader.

Never mind that Kerry released a FAQ on the framework “deal” (after it had been…negotiated…and before the proposed terms had been discussed with Congress) that’s radically different from what the Iranians thought they had tentatively agreed. Released by a man who once, in public and sworn testimony, accused our military of wholesale, routine war crimes. A man who tried to avoid his home state’s luxury taxes by berthing his multi-million dollar yacht in another state. Yeah, Kerry is entirely trustworthy.

Obama also renewed complaints about the 47 Republican senators who sent a letter to Iran’s leaders saying that any deal the Iranians made with the US would not necessarily hold up after Obama has left the office.

Because telling the truth about an Executive Agreement is such a terrible thing, especially when the other party to that agreement appears to have such a deep misunderstanding of the depth and durability of it. An agreement which that self-same Kerry said in testimony before Congress was not binding because what’s contemplated is only an Executive Agreement.

Never mind, too, that Obama is pulling out all the stops to prevent Congress from passing on the agreement, which would make it a binding one.

Obama added, in the wide-eyed innocence that only he can muster

I don’t understand why it is that everybody’s working so hard to anticipate failure[.]

Maybe it’s because the thing can only fail: it in no way requires Iran to stop working toward nuclear weapons acquisition, it in no way prevents Iran from working toward nuclear weapons acquisition, it in no way has even a serious inspection régime. Of course the better policy wonk than his policy wonks knows this, which only goes to show that Obama is as trustworthy as his Secretary of State.

Obama’s rank partisanship really “needs to stop.” Oh, wait. Just shut up.