With reports picking up of a possible final Iran nuclear deal in a matter of days, Congressional leaders are once again stepping up the rhetoric against the talks and the deal, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – KY) insisting Obama would face a “hard sell” in convincing Congress to accept any deal.
That’s been a long-standing problem, with Israel lobbying heavily against any deal on any terms. With the July 9 deadline passed, Congress will have 60 days to vote on any nuclear deal, which increases the chances of that lobby having time to kill the pact.
House Speaker John Boehner (R – OH) hopes it doesn’t come to that, because he doesn’t want negotiations at all, let alone a pact that he has to vote again, insisting today on Face the Nation that President Obama should “walk away” from the talks immediately and unconditionally.
The administration has repeatedly threatened to do exactly that in recent days, a puzzling tactic given how close the deal reportedly has been. The prospect of the US unilaterally withdrawing from the talks seems to be getting the hopes of Congressional hawks up, and adding to anger that the negotiations continue.
Actually, it will be good news if the jackass factions led by masters in Tel Aviv reject a deal with Iran. That will leave the US completely isolated (with but one real "ally") while the rest of the world piles on to invest in Iran.
Yup, I believe the Europeans, Russia and China have had enough of the US dithering and piling on additional demands.
Yes,Boehner, you can ask US to walk away but you won't be walking back into the pre – negotiation day. Its a new world . Its not the world of bombastic,threatening,menacing world of " bomb bomb Iran" of Liberman,Cheney,McCain,Hilary,WSJ,CNN,Fox.
Russia and China will break and ignore sanction and lift arms embargo. You will be sulking with periodic media sanctioned tantrum. Nothing more ,nothing less .
Salvage what you can ,eat your words and try to retain some sense of the reality . It won't hurt America . It may hurt your political future .
Boehner and other GOP hacks are lapdogs on AIPAC's payroll. This scum are
whores and prostitutes for their Zionist masters, and couldn't give a damn
that the majority of USG citizens (demand) a nuclear deal with Iran.
When did a majority of USG citizens "demand" — in or out of parentheses — a nuclear deal with Iran?
In the last poll I saw, a couple of weeks ago, 36 percent supported a deal, 17 percent opposed a deal, and 46 percent didn't have an opinion one way or another.
I am aware there are numerous (polls) with various opinions.
I quoted from a single July 7 source that suggested 59% of
Americans support the US-Iran framework agreement. However, I
won't waste valuable time on this website knit-picking about
polls with you.
If nothing else, having the Congress be forced to be put on record would be a good thing. On so many important issues in the last decade or so, they've been allowed to sidestep their responsibilities and take the easy (and cowardly) way out. It's about time the people who vote for them understand exactly who these elected answer to – and it ain't those who voted them in.
If I am wrong I will immediately admit it. Once there is "agreement" someone must sign. Must president Obama wait for Congressional action before he can sign? If not then his signature is considered a validation by the so-called international community and the agreement will be sent to the UN Security Council no matter what our Congress will do.
It was interesting listening to C-Span this week with the hearing on the new Joint Chief of Staff and the need to keep our nuclear deterrent and first strike nuclear capability up to date with more, modern and performant weapons. With our leaders singing songs about bomb Iran, is it any wonder that they want the capability to defend themselves? Refusing the deal made by the P5+1 will show our weakness in the world and our growing loss of allies.
I believe that Obama's "threats" to walk are all a show aimed at his US audience.
I suspect his plan was to claim he was tough and threatened to walk, and by implication the deal is a good one. Since I support the deal, I don't much care that I think those threats are all a lie, pure show, signifying nothing about the deal.
However, I now suspect something else may be happening. I doubt Obama thought so many moves ahead that he calculated this, but it is happening anyway whether he did or not. The hawks are being flushed out early, so even Americans who would not pay much attention will see this about the hawks. It is bait for hawks. They are taking the bait.
Now we must hope that Obama's bait is baiting a trap.