A planned vote on the Corker-Menendez bill, which would give Congress the power to kill any nuclear deal with Iran, is drawing closer, and the promised veto from President Obama has most looking at the prospect of overriding.
The override is going to hinge heavily on Democratic senators, but two of them, Sen. Chris Coons (D – DE) and Mark Warner (D – VA), once presented as sure things by the bill’s authors, now say they are undecided.
The White House is warning that the Republican senators pushing the bill plan to use it as a political weapon in the future. That doesn’t appear to be in dispute, but the focus of the bill is on sabotaging diplomacy with Iran, something which somehow seems to be less controversial.
As the vote nears, expect heavy lobbying to continue on both sides, with the Israeli Lobby pushing Democrats to kill the Iran deal at any cost, and the White House trying to keep the talks on track.
This is of no surprise to anyone. The Demos on AIPAC's payroll
are just as repugnant as the Repugs.
USG never found WMD in Iraq, world never been a flat place nor sun rotating around Mars. If such delusional ideas were proven to be facts then saudis barbaric regime could claime that it was them who created the world.
There were no WMD's in Iraq & there are no WMD's in Iran. Israel is the only nation in the ME that has WMD's. The USA & its allies can't attack North Korea because it has WMD's.
And why does Korea have WMD, because Bush II via Bonkers Bolton went back on an agreement to help Nth Korea, shows how good a Diplomat he was! Could we see such a problem again!