Whether a deal between the P5+1 and Iran is reached or not, Senate leaders say they intend to push through harsh new sanctions against Iran as one of their first moves when they return from recess in early December.
Many of the Senate leaders have openly opposed diplomacy with Iran and have been hyping the sanctions as a way of foiling that effort. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – NV) insists he supports diplomacy, but also supports the sanctions that threaten to tear any deal reached by those sanctions apart.
Talks between the P5+1 and Iran are meant to yield a deal on reducing the sanctions in return for Iran cutting back on its civilian nuclear program.
That’s going to be a problem for the Obama Administration, since their ability to deliver on such a promise is very much in doubt. Even if they make a deal and temporarily deliver, the Senate sanctions could quickly renege on any pact, and threaten the deal.
"Article I, section 7 of the Constitution grants the President the authority to veto legislation passed by Congress." So what am I missing?
It's nice that he addresses their moneybags directly as bloodthirsty (paraphrasing top headline not too lightly). But I won't be forgiving the little wussy if he allows it himself. Vaguely remember he's got a pattern of failing to exert the power he actually has to do the right thing. That'd support the notion that he's pretty much bought, but looks for no-account ways to show it.
I wonder if the real issue with him might be genuine fear of another (winter?)/spring/summer '13, where everything's a scandal supposedly leading to him. And the moneybags' press actually preferred harping on those to e.g. months of Anna Nicole Smith.
Yeah, but Obama is scared to death of AIPAC, these are the guys he promised to flush down the toilet if he were elected president……"missing piece."
With his administration crumbling, and his poll numbers sinking, over the ACA disaster, Obama is now in a much weakened position. As the majority of Americans are against war with Iran (at least I think so based on Syria), Obama could regain some much needed credibility if he would come out strongly now against additional sanctions (with negotiations ongoing) and veto such legislation if the Senate were dumb enough to pass it. I doubt if the Senate, under Dem control, could muster enough votes to override.
8 weeks later: Starting to look like you were right –though they got up to –what, 58 Senators?
This entire situation with Iran, like Syria, is a bad one.
Looking at everything going on in the region– including the ongoing drone strikes killing innocent civilians in Pakistan and elsewhere, the reversal of the 2014 pull-out from Afghanistan,
the recent narrow escape from war in Syria, and now the removing of sanctions one minute just to reimpose them a minute later– all of these things and more only shows the American People, as well as the rest of the world, that the people in govt. here in the US are all disorganized insane liars who can not be trusted for one minute, and they do not care one iota who they take with them down the road to destruction. They should all be removed from office. Impeach, Recall or Fire every last one of them before they make the final calculated move to involve the US in further war that we and the world can ill afford
This is the "US Senate"? How do they explain that to any "US persons" who are not corporations, or perhaps foetuses)??? The Congress seems to have no idea of representing the US population, which is now 64% for having a deal with Iran. The cruelty of sanctions on 75million Iranians, half of them under 30 years old, when Israel is allowed to attack its neighbours, threaten anyone it cannot bribe,store ready to use 200 nukes with no inspection, pour sewage kneedeep into besieged Gaza and help flood the tunnels which are the only entrance to this open air prison, shows that Israelis are not "chosen" for their moral fibre.