Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D – NY) announcement yesterday that he is going to oppose the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran sparked an initial flurry of concern that, as an influential senator, he might sway enough Democrats to the opposition to kill the pact.
That’s seeming less and less likely, however, and there is speculation that Schumer’s public opposition was conditional on him knowing his vote wouldn’t matter. Analysts say if Schumer thought he could kill the deal outright, he’d have gone public sooner, and much more loudly.
Instead, he backed into the announcement after a week of reports it was coming, and faced with heavy lobbying from AIPAC. The vote at this point is seen as all but obligatory, though the White House continues to warn he votes against the pact at his own “peril.” There are already some reports of backlashes against Schumer from Democrat activists.
Despite all of this fighting, White House officials say they remain confident that Congress will not be able to muster enough votes to actually block the Iran deal. They would need a two-thirds majority in both houses to override a promised presidential veto.
The entire issue is without substance. It fails on the premise that Iran actually wants to buy things from the US.
Stuxnet/Snowden effectively guarantee that Iran will buy absolutely nothing in terms of IT infrastructure from the US or any partner. There is no way that even one dollar will pass through the American financial system given past practices of freezing assets. There is no point in Iran inking the deal on big ticket, long lead time items like commercial airliners. Even if Boeing could deliver the Iranians would be at the whim on Congress over spare parts forever into the future.
Iran survived the world wide sanctions. They will be able to purchase everything they need from BRICS countries. China, Russia and India will reap an economic windfall. The US can refuse to sell Iran all the goods and services they have no intention of buying anyway. Everybody wins except US businesses and US workers – a small price to pay; no price at all for a disloyal government parasite like Chuck.
Go ahead, reject the deal and prove conclusively that the "indispensable nation" is "dispensable" after all.
President Rouhani has been invited to visit France in November. I'm sure Airbus would be happy to sell Iran all the commercial aircraft it wants. We've very good at shooting ourselves in the foot, actually in both feet.
Ain't that the truth. Constantly antagonizing more and more of the world's population, that's if the US isn't outright killing them, and then we wonder that Japanese, Chinese, and Germans are doing business just fine.
It's time this schmuck retired anyway – move into the condo he probably has overlooking the beach in Tel Aviv. Another good example why there should be term limits.
One hopes that Barry the Kenyan will use this as an excuse to fuck over the Shit Schumer big time.
Any chance that Schumer Schmuck won't keep getting re-elected.
The Anti deal activists have backed themselves into a corner. They cannot win either way. There will be all hell to pay if Obama loses his veto nationally and internationally. The apologists will realize once and for all their country has been hijacked by pro Israeli extremists. If Obama wins the anti deal mob will percieve themselves as defeated and weak. In their mind the greatest sin.
So schumer only came out against the deal because he knew it would pass anyway. Now there is a man with character.