Biden's Iran deal opposed by most Americans

 Ed Morrissey:

To be fair, it looks pretty revolting to everyone outside of Congress as well. Surprisingly, it looks increasingly bad to House Democrats according to Punchbowl, even though Joe Biden ran on the pledge to re-enter the Iran deal in his 2020 presidential campaign.

So what changed? Well, as it turns out, voters aren’t terribly keen on outsourcing American national security to Vladimir Putin and Ali Khamenei. Now House Dems have yet another midterm issue on which they expect a beating:

The discord came to a head on Saturday during a two-hour call between roughly a dozen House Democrats and Brett McGurk, the National Security Council’s coordinator for the Middle East and Africa, and other senior administration officials, according to a half-dozen sources familiar with the situation.

On that call, these Democrats laid into administration officials about being kept out of the loop about the status of the talks between the United States and Iran. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on the call that the White House is bungling the public messaging surrounding the negotiations, and several other lawmakers raised concerns about being forced to answer for the deal once it’s cut. …

The rank-and-file Democrats expressed concerns about lifting sanctions on Iranian oil sales at this time.They worried that it would appear that the United States was easing up on the regime because of high oil prices due to the war between Ukraine and Russia. One House Democrat said it seemed as if the United States was “selling our soul” for oil.

That’s certainly one concern. A bigger question to answer would be why Americans need to “sell our soul” for Iranian oil when we can extract our own right here, using American workers. It’s one thing to go the full Greta on climate-change hysteria, but it’s more than just skosh hypocritical to then start cutting deals with terror-supporting petro-states to get the price of gasoline down in time for an election. Try squaring that with voters in November, especially in states where either the price of gas is above $5 a gallon or where oil exists that could boost the local economy, but where Biden’s EO and new regs block access to it.

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Biden has failed to offer any evidence that this deal makes any sense at all.  It is even goofier than Obama's original deal.  It offers nothing of value at a high price and alienates most of the US allies in the Middle East from Israel to Saudi Arabia.