Senate hearings on the Iran nuclear deal have begun today, and as expected were filled with intense speeches of outright condemnation from Republican hawks who were opposed to the deal before its terms were even announced, and threats to see the deal killed outright at all costs.
Several lashed the deal as “fleecing” the US, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R – FL) talked up the idea that if he were elected he could just dishonor the treaty to kill it after the 2016 election. Secretary of State John Kerry said he hoped the next president would have more common sense than to do something like that.
The rhetoric from both sides of a aisle reflect something that has been the case since the deal was announced last week, that most everyone in the government came into the deal with a preconceived position, even those that hadn’t yet read the deal, and no one seems willing to even consider changing their minds.
With the Iran deal such a huge political hot potato, it seems likely that most top officials are going to want to keep making hay about it, and that the next two months of review, leading up to Congressional votes that almost certainly won’t block the pact, are going to be full of predictions of doom from hawkish speechmakers.
The sad thing, the US taxpayers pay these clowns to grandstand and then turn against the American people every chance they get.
Amazing that a peace deal can be considered a bad move? If that's not devil Talk then what is?
But I thought "fleecing the US" was Israel's job, . . .
They're all jockeying to finish in the top tier of AIPAC cash recipients. The route goes from the American people to the Treasury, where it gets prettied up and given to Israel for the behemoth nuclear-power's so-called security. Most of the cash is paid to imports from other places to help them steal the inhabitants' land in the "occupied territories". Whatever is left over is used to build more nukes and to fill the outstretched hands of the Quislings in Congress, in order to continue the money train.
All these senators condemning the Iran nuclear deal are fronting for Israel. Some of them are simply brain dead, others shamefully ignorant, and others are plain traitors to the U.S. Only Israel is opposed to this treaty, and the despicable groveling, sniveling behavior of the U.S. congress is a strong sign that the U.S. empire will destroy itself.
Senate Foreign Relations chairman Sen. Corker (R) Tenn. was the one to use the term 'fleecing'; I've been waiting to see what the Crystal drive-thru window king was made of…
do these people think what to do about water shortage in california or they are worry for something that is not concern to American people