Starting Thursday, Sens. Tom Cotton (R – AR) and Marco Rubio (R – FL) stalled the compromise Iran nuclear talks bill, trying to force votes on a series of amendments to the bill that would impose a series of new demands on Iran, none of which were nuclear-related.
Some of the amendments, including a demand that Iran publicly endorse Israel as a “Jewish state,” were opposed even by many hawks, who saw the language as so divisive it might imperil the bill outright.
The Senate’s Republican leadership has announced they are going to “wrap up” consideration of amendments to the bill on Monday, spurning further pushes by Cotton and Rubio, and will try to have a vote on the bill itself this week. The bill aims to give the US Congress the power to veto a deal between the P5+1 and Iran.
President Obama had initially threatened to veto the bill for imperiling the talks, but after an agreement to water it down slightly gave the Senate a probable veto-proof majority, he backed down. His threats to veto renewed with Cotton and Rubio’s amendments, which simultaneously were likely to cost the bill its veto-proof majority.
Cotton is AR not AK
Good. Make them look like the pro-israel/anti-American operatives they really are.
Isn´t it time to get serious? It is Time to mature! amazing American legislators are payed to play games like these.
Cotton is a flunky even by AIPAC's standard. His idiotic comment that a
(war) with Iran would take only a (few) days is proof that this (fool) has
been smoking some of the crack cocaine Slick Willie is running through
his airport in Mena Arkansas.
Cotton has, by a long shot, worked harder for the Israeli government than he has for the people of Arkansas since he assumed office earlier this year.
Beware that while the MSM is telling us that it is about Iran recognizing the state is Israel, the amendment is actually about Iran endorsing Israel as a JEWISH state, i.e., an apartheid state; it is not about the right of Israel to exist, it is about the right of Israel to be racist.
A half truth is a whole lie!
This is all a game to them. It's all about being the winner no matter what the cost to do so – nor the consequences that come with their winning which is usually bad for most.
Rubio and Cotton (throw in Cruz), even though they're all young, appear to be men of the past. It's as if we never got out of the 1950's. Like their elders McCain and Graham, they offer nothing but war and more war. Thankfully, at least some of the GOP controlled Senate have not completely lost their minds.
Sorry, without defined borders a nation can't be recognized. I'm looking at you, Israel. Now, if you'd whip out that little piece of paper- you know, the UN charter that created you- and define yourself by those borders, I'm sure everyone would have no problems recognizing your statehood.