Congressional candidate engages in cartoonish attempt at foreign policy

Michael Flynn, the darkhorse candidate for Candice Miller’s congressional seat, has continued his use of illustrations as a campaign tool, this time producing a cartoon lampooning President Obama for the nuclear deal struck with Iran.
But the text in the press release accompanying the drawing drifts into fairly cartoonish attempts by Flynn at displaying his foreign policy chops.

From his perch as a township treasurer, Flynn attempts to lecture congressional Republicans on the need to declare that the nuke deal with Tehran is a legally-binding international treaty and should face a two-thirds majority approval in the Senate. The first-time congressional candidate seems to be fighting the last war, an issue that was settled months ago.

Here’s what Flynn said:
“… Congress has either through inadvertent incompetence or design, given the president virtual carte-blanche. The president has promised a veto; and while congressional leaders continue to talk tough, once again they have been out-foxed and the nation is less safe because of it.  Protecting America requires strategic thinking and leadership – it’s time for some new blood.”

What seems to have completely slipped past Flynn, the treasurer of Shelby Township in Macomb County, is the fact that Congress knows its basic math: that is, two-thirds equals two-thirds.

If the deal had been signed as a treaty, it would require a two-thirds vote of affirmation in the Senate. Now that the pact is completed as an agreement, not a treaty, unraveling the deal still requires a two-thirds majority in the Senate (and the House) in order to avoid a certain Obama veto.
The real fight in Washington these days is a highly partisan battle, in the Senate and the House, to line up large numbers of votes against the deal. In fact, some experts say that the current Congress, or the next president, will have a tough time maintaining the current regimen of international sanctions against Iran.

As for the details of the pact, Flynn points to no specifics in opposing it and he engages in a bit of Trumpish behavior, trying to outdo other critics by spouting the most bombastic language he can conjure. He calls the deal nothing more than a “legacy-driven PR stunt” on Obama’s part.

Now, the nuke deal can be debated in many ways, but this was an agreement reached with the P5+1, not just the U.S. Is Flynn saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin went along with his European adversaries so that he could provide Obama with a trophy for his mantle?