With the Senate now having enough votes to block a resolution against the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, the Republican leadership was seeking a consolation prize with a vote in the House, even though without the Senate version it is meaningless. The House vote was announced for 9/11, but now appears to be indefinitely postponed in the face of right-wing opposition.
The issue seems to stem from an “uprising” in the Freedom Caucus, which is demanding a whole set of bills against the deal, including one from Rep. Peter Roskam (R – IL) complaining that the White House didn’t submit the terms of any side deals between Iran and the IAEA, meaning that the review process wasn’t legally met.
The effort seems to be an attempt to extend the fight over the Iran deal beyond the 60-day review limit, which expires on September 17. There is no indication, however, that the White House even has access to confidential deals between Iran and the IAEA, meaning even if the “side deals” were vital to the review process, it’s a problem with the design of the process in the first place.
Rep. Roskam appears to believe that passing a resolution demanding these documents would put the 60-day review process in suspended animation, basically forever since they’re not going to get the documents. Other House leaders warn the more likely result is for the White House to simply consider the September 17 review deadline met, particularly since the Senate isn’t going to vote at all, and implement the deal.
That’s probably going to be the case, indeed, since the White House doesn’t have a lot of alternatives. The P5+1 deal is finalized, and there was never more than a very outside shot Congress would prevent US involvement. The deal is going to be implemented either way internationally and the US really has no excuse not to follow through with its promises.
These Repug flunkies need some kind of (victory) to take back to
ACRAP, the little Zionist troll Adelson, and freeloader Nuttyahoo.
A blind person can see whose running this country.
Wait….what happened to: "Iran is six months away from acquiring a nuclear weapon?"
I guess that makes Rep. Roskam the leader of the true Isolationist wing of American politics. With this kind of "leadership" the United States is well on its way to becoming an irrelevancy in world affairs. It seems Washington is now reduced to throwing meaningless rhetoric and bombs at the rest of the world until the day the rest of the world tires of the violence and…
Fascinating how the term 'isolationist' has changed over the years. It used to be applied to conservatives who didn't think it was any of America's business to get involved in foreign wars nor to be the "world's policeman". Nowadays, it seems to be used in the context of people who want America involved in so many wars and being such an obnoxious police force that America becomes "isolated" from a world that hates bullying cops and wants nothing to do with assassins.
I love it when they eat their own…
Acting like a bunch of spoiled children stomping their feet because they didn't get yet another war, and this one that they really wanted. After all, they were supposed to get their war with Iraq before we created 10 million refugees in Syria. So, tens if not hundreds of thousands of human beings get to live, while we have to put up with the temper-tantrums that these children are having in disappointment of that fact.