Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enjoyed a minor boost in his polling for the upcoming election, but to the extent that his speech to the US Congress was an effort to kill US diplomacy with Iran, it appears to have failed, and support for the bill is drying up.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – KY) intends to fast-track the bill, which aims to give Congress veto power over any nuclear deal reached with Iran.
That’s what Netanyahu was hoping would happen, but a number of Senate Democrats, including co-sponsors of the bill, are now opposing it, meaning the vote is likely to be mostly a party-line vote.
Obama has already promised to veto the bill, along with any other bill that aims to derail negotiations with Iran, and without heavy support from the Democrats it seems virtually impossible they’ll be able to override the veto.
Hawks were betting Netanyahu, and the influence Israel usually commands in Congress, would be enough to swing the vote that way. The political rancor surrounding Netanyahu’s visit may have caused it to backfire, however.
Oh, so now netenyahoo is (openly) writing laws for the US? With Republicans this treasonous, Hillary actually stands a chance. The sad thing of course is that for all intents and purposes she might as well be a Republican.
Exactly!
Well! some mettle after all. Probably their own shame and dawning sense of reality id starting to finally kick in. Let´s not ´bravo´ as yet, though.
Who knows, Netanyahu perhaps knew from beggining it will fail…, but he calculated smartly US will just GIVE MORE MONEY!!!!! instead ….and that may happened. So his trip will be succes anyway. Pedro CR
Unintentionally or not, fast tracking is good. Evil babies are best strangled in the crib. That goes for bibies too.
There is a fairly recent precedent which shows that President Obama does not need to submit any agreement with Iran to the Senate for ratification. For the international community President Obama's signature, which will not be the only one anyway, will be enough. The precedent is SOFA Iraq 2008 negotiated and signed by President Bush. That agreement was never submitted to the US Senate for ratification yet it was clear that the United Nations, which had forced President Bush to negotiate in the first place, accepted the agreement as binding on the Obama administration. In 2012 President Obama obeyed this non-ratified agreement to withdraw our military from Iraq. Even if our Senate would be able to pass new poison pills, the remainder of the world will now be free to ignore any economic and financial sanctions on Iran.
We are a nation of whims.
His speech failed? I disagree. Given the enthusiastic support in Congress no US President can instruct our UN delegation to vote for the establishment of a State of Palestine on the West Bank as long as this Netanyahu or future Netanyahu's say no. The Netanyahu's will always argue that a Palestine next door is more dangerous than a distant Iran. See Gaza. There will never be a State of Palestine as long as our government refuses to demand its establishment.
Before anyone goes and starts doing victory laps I would suggest that they wait and see what actually happens in Congress. After all, we all know that strange and unpredictable things are wont to come out of that building, especially with the groups inhabiting the place nowadays.
Things are not always as they seem – better to wait and see what is really underneath the layers of talk and misdirection (lies) and promises and talkinghead analysis.
That's the kind of sticking it up Bibi's arse that he DOESN'T like.
Between Boehner failing to hold Obama to account over Libya and the failure of both Boehner and McConnell to hold Obama to account over the DHS funding bill Obama can simply ignore anything passed. The GOP leadership castrated itself Constitutional wise and need not be paid attention to.
The kudos should go to Russia and China for disrupting the US-Israeli pattern of using belligerent tactics to defeat diplomacy in the Middle East. By casting the negotiations as a five nation agreement, Israel was no longer in a position to poison the talks, nor unilaterally spin it that the Muslim side "failed to meet the terms of the deal." For a change, this process has international credibility while not being controlled by the West. The legitmacy of these Iran talks thus prevent them from being bypassed, or weaponized into a "diplomacy has failed" excuse for military action.
Is there any way to impeach (better yet, HANG) the quislings in Congress and the Senate? Seriously, what does it take when we have Senators who think nothing of pledging allegiance to the head of state of a foreign power?
For example, during a December 2014 trip to Israel, serial sycophant Lindsey Graham made the following pledge to his Lord and Master, Binyamin Netanyahu:
"I'm here to tell you, Mr. Prime Minister, that the Congress will follow your lead."
See for yourself, at the 5:09 mark of the following youtube video:
Look at the adoration in twerp Graham's eyes, ffs! If this isn't Treason, wtf is?!
"If this isn't Treason, wtf is?"
The definition of treason is in the US Constitution. You might try looking it up. It involves 1) war, which the US Congress hasn't declared in 70+ years, and 2) overt acts, not words.
The nukes in Israel belong to the US military, as do all the Politicians in Israel body and soul.