Is Iran Another ObamaCare?

Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran could sink Democratic election campaigns—again.

It is eerie how much the politics of the Iran nuclear deal resemble the politics of ObamaCare. Many Democrats running for election in 2014 rode ObamaCare to defeat. Barack Obama’s latest “legacy,” the Iran nuclear deal, is resurrecting more Democratic electoral vulnerability. Some legacy.

Ayatollah Khamenei with the commander of the 

Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani. 

Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

On Tuesday, four Democratic senators—including incumbents Ron Wyden of Oregon and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut—nodded their assent to the nuclear deal, giving Mr. Obama the 42 votes needed to block a Senate vote on the deal and sparing the president what the Washington Post called “drama and embarrassment.”

The Iran deal is going to “pass”—if that’s the word for it—with less than 50 votes in the Senate. Welcome to the progressives’ Constitution.

It’s all redolent of ObamaCare’s 2010 passage—with no GOP votes—atop the Cornhusker Kickback for Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and the Louisiana Purchase for Sen. Mary Landrieu. This time, though, the White House got Democrats’ assent in return for little more than liberal belief in the potential goodness of all mankind.

But vaporizing the arcane tradition of simple Senate majorities may be the high point of the Iran deal for the Democrats.

The depth of opposition to the nuclear deal is startling, deeper than the disaffection with ObamaCare.

In a recent Quinnipiac poll the deal’s total level of support is 25%. That’s a very low number in the polling business. Opposition to the deal among independent voters is 59%, with 52% of women opposed.

Asked if the deal would make the world safer or less safe, 56% said less safe, and that includes 54% of women and 49% of college graduates. Its support is below 30% in every age category. A plurality of black voters say it makes the world less safe.

Will these numbers improve? The Pew Poll just out has support at 21%, a 12-point drop since July.

It’s a long way to November 2016. Maybe by then Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will lie down with the lamb and Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani will order his Middle Eastern storm troopers back to their barracks. Of course they won’t, and so congressional Democrats could pay a high political price for their de facto alliance with Iran.

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