Throughout Obama’s presidency, his vetoes have always survived Congressional challenges. That his first might be a bill about Saudi Arabia reflects waning Saudi influence in lobbying Congress to get their way, and what would likely have once been a very safe veto is now at serious risk.
Obama’s Friday veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) aims to block a bill that would allow family members of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in American courts. The House and Senate both passed JASTA unanimously, and many in both parties are expressing confidence they have the votes for an override of the veto.
The House was widely expected to override easily, but Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – NY) insisted that the Senate too would “quickly” override Obama’s veto, insisting that the Saudis must be held accountable if the courts find they were culpable in 9/11.
President Obama has warned that the JASTA would set a dangerous legal precedent, warning that allowing individual lawsuits against the Saudi government could lead to other countries allowing their own citizens to sue the US government over its own misdeeds.
The Administration had originally hoped to keep the veto and override votes until after the November elections, hoping it would make newly reelected senators more willing to listen to Saudi lobbyists and less concerned about strong voter support for the bill. Saudi lobbying clearly isn’t what it once was, however, and those senators that switch sides on the override now risk serious repercussions in the election.
Obama is enough of a political coward that if he sees that a veto override is inevitable, he’ll switch sides and cancel his own veto.
Maybe. But if he keeps it up, he shows his Saudi paymasters that he’s at least attempting to earn his bribe. After all, he’s got to consider his post-presidential financial position.
Obama simply understands that which Americans seem to be too stupid to understand. Make lawsuits legal and the US stands to get it’s due comeuppance for it’s crimes against humanity throughout the world.
Unfortunately, racist hate for Obama clouds the thinking of the schlunks who still can’t come to terms with what the US has done to the ME. The real political cowards are the American people who remain in denial of the facts.
Some of us Americans understand plenty. That doesn’t change the fact that Obama IS a political coward. Whether it pertains to his a** kissing veto matters little.
All this at the same time we are selling weapons to SA?
If the Veto is overwritten, hopefully the Saudi’s when backed into a corner will spill the beans as to who their co-conspirators really were and what the agenda really was.
Maybe they will simply say that Osama Bin Laden was an enemy of the corrupt Saudi monarchy? And that would be the truth of course.
Just imagine folks, the US suing another country for crimes against humanity when the US has been the world’s criminal nation since WW2, starting wars with over 37 countries. Calling themselves ‘exceptional’ doesn’t begin to describe the US!
The Israel Lobby and influence will always trump the Saudi Lobby and influence.
Sep 21, 2016 The REAL Cost of the War of Terror
We all know by now that the real terrorists (the politicians in the suits and ties and the banksters that pull their strings) are waging their war of terror on multiple fronts for multiple reasons. Domestically, it rallies the population around the flag, keeping the flock in check. At the same time it justifies the build up of the police state control grid to catch the thought criminals who resist.
https://youtu.be/3cb8DPt274U
How can anybody give you credibility Lincoln when you don’t understand that the steel in the WTC towers didn’t need to melt to get as soft as rubber, which then caused the whole structure to collapse? I would like to believe you on the politicians being the terrorists but your reputation is too tarnished to believe anything you say.
Yes by all means let us have a President who puts Saudi interests above those of average U.S. citizens. (said no one ever)
Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist (Documentary) – 1
This is the Prologue to the new documentary from The Corbett Report, Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist. This documentary interrogates the notion that Osama Bin Laden single-handedly runs the pervasive Al Qaeda terrorist network by examining its inception, its links to Western intelligence, the double agents and fictitious characters that populate its ranks, and the fraudulent ways the Al Qaeda myth is propagated in the controlled corporate media. The documentary also offers ways that citizens can become involved in helping to spread understanding about the true government-sponsored terror paradigm.
https://youtu.be/ek7ZHenQnu4?list=PL2706A5A4D3B684E4
For more information about the documentary, please visit:
http://www.alqaedadoesntexist.com
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Another vacant headed promotion of lies and bullshit by LIncoln. Our Lincoln who still thinks that the steel in the WTC twin towers had to melt to cause the buildings to collapse. And still not owning up to the fact that he doesn’t know as much as blacksmiths knew 1000 years ago about how steel becomes like rubber when heated to cherry red. A temperature which can be easily obtained in a campfire!
What about it Lincoln? Still insisting that it was the CIA and the Martians who were responsible for 911?
Why isn’t this the number one story in America? Instead of that bullsh*t rodeo we call a presidential debate.