In a 98-1 vote, the Senate has passed a bill which will give them veto power over the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran. The lone “no” vote was from ultrahawkish Sen. Tom Cotton (R – AR), who was angry his amendments weren’t approved.
The bill has been somewhat watered down from what was initially proposed, and President Obama has said he will sign it, though at this point the overwhelming majority is veto-proof anyhow.
The House of Representatives will be the next to debate the bill, with a vote expected there next week. Though there probably won’t be serious obstacles to the vote passing there either, it could face another round of attempts to add amendments aimed at killing the negotiations outright.
Senate hawks are expressing hope that even this watered down bill will effectively do that anyhow, saying they believe that Congress would not approve the deal as presently written, and will insist on “improvements” that will themselves almost certainly be unacceptable to the rest of the nations involved.
Cotton is a flunky. Even AIPAC doesn't take this clown serious.
AIPAC does not take any one seriously
"…almost certainly be unacceptable to the rest of the nations involved."
And? If the remainder of the P5+1 agrees and signs the agreement with Iran, the US will be left to bang on the window by themselves. If the rest of the world lifts the sanctions what good does it do the US to keeps theirs in place? The profits from the new economic activity will all go to other nations. Do they think that all the American war materiel makers are going to just sit and watch all that profit slip through their fingers? What about all the American farm and manufacturing companies that will lose a very large market? Will they idly sit by and allow the ideological fools in Congress limit their market? Very nonCapitalist, I would think. How do they square that hole?
Idiots.
At least right-wing idiot Cotton was isolated on this, but I doubt if it means much.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya, that even those darlings of the pwogressives, Bernie and that woman from Mass, voted for this bill.
I met Bernie once, about 15 years ago. It was a cookout at the Bangor Labor Temple, in Maine. Seeing as how I'd heard he was a Socialist, and I bein' of the IWW syndicalist persuasion, I was interested in meetin' a real live honest-to-goodness Socialist Congresscritter.
So I says to Bernie, "Which Socialist Party are you a member of?"
Most folks don't know there's more than one. They still think all them Commies and Socialistic types are the same and they all take orders from Mr Putin hisself. There's about a dozen of them parties, each with maybe a few hundred members. They spend most of of their time fussing among theirselves and tryin' to sell crappy newspapers at protests.
So anyhow, I'm all excited to meet Bernie, and I ask him my question, and I hafta tell ya, he really cracked me. He recoils in horror at th' idea of him bein' an actual member of an actual Socialist Party. He couldn't get away fast enough! Funniest thing you ever saw!
Now that he's runnin' fer President, I'm hopin' he comes back to the Labor Temple, just so's I can laugh at his sorry ass some more. He sure is a joker!
If the House passes new amendments, or it passes its own similar bill with provisions the Senate does not want, the House and Senate may caucus, but it is doubtful that the “new and improved” bill would garner such a majority again in the Senate. If so, and if it passes, Obama may veto the new one without risk of override.
I agree with the prior comment about the rest of the P5 countries lifting their sanctions and the consequences of same. The US-Israel regime is still trying to be King of the Mountain — doubtful that such idiocy will prevail.
Instead of using the term senate hawks why don't you say Israel's tools
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