Schumer lets us know he wants the Iran deal to go through
Why do I say that? Because of this Politico piece entitled “Chuck Schumer working the phones on Iran.”
Now, if you were to stop there, you might assume that Schumer is trying to get other Democrats to agree with him to block the Iran deal. But you would be wrong—as the subtitle of the piece makes clear, “He calls colleagues to explain his decision and assure them he will not be whipping opposition.”
So the message has to be: “I’m going to vote this way because I have to in order to please my constituents, but I don’t want you to vote the same way and I’ll do nothing to either persuade you to come over to my side or stop you from voting against me. What’s more, when I take over Harry Reid’s position I won’t take it out on you for disagreeing with me.”
This is the way it will go down:
Schumer, though, is not lobbying his colleagues to vote against the agreement when the Senate takes up a “resolution of disapproval” next month, several undecided senators said during interviews. The disapproval resolution is expected to win the 60 votes needed to overcome any Democratic filibuster.
The real question, however, is whether President Barack Obama can rally the 34 senators he needs to uphold a veto of the resolution. Right now, the Senate vote is too close to call, although Obama’s support for a veto override appears more solid among House Democrats, with three more coming out on Tuesday in favor of the agreement.
Prediction: the override will fail.
When it does, I’m wondering whether the Senate will then vote on it as a treaty, in which case it will not be approved. That is of interest to me in terms of whether the GOP shows any spine. But as I’ve written before, even if that were somehow to happen, Obama would ignore it and say it’s not a treaty. And I believe he would win any challenge on that in the Supreme Court.
Is their any current Senator worse than Schumer?
And, Neo, you have raised an interesting question (indirectly) as to who would have standing to file a declaratory judgement to designate the Iran deal as a treaty. I think a single Senator might and Ted Cruz would be the guy to do it.
Cornhead:
Actually, I raised the issue of standing more directly here.
It’s beginning to look as if Obama can win any Supreme Court challenge that comes up. It’s not easy being conservative these days. The cards are stacked against us.
The Honorable Senator is a would be Honorary Arian.
I blame his voters ….
“Chuck Schumer working the phones on Iran.”?
Did he read what Iran regime saying?
If I Were an Israeli Looking at the Iran Deal
But is this convincing the Israelis:
here is the link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/world/middleeast/reporting-from-iran-jewish-paper-sees-no-plot-to-destroy-israel.html
Perfect example of what blogger ‘Ace of Spades’ has termed Failure Theater. Schumer now can tell his constituents that he opposed the Iran deal, knowing full well he never did anything to actually stop it.
I’m still not ready to say Schumer is a complete jerk on this, mostly because of the timing of his announcement of his opposition to the Iran deal. Doing it so early gives everyone, not just him, more time to influence votes. Why else is the White House so upset with him?
WV:
Oh yeah, Israelis are really becoming convinced the deal is great, as are Americans.
See this.
Oh, and that quote about the “first journalist from an American Jewish pro-Israel publication” is talking about Larry Cohler-Esses, reporter for the Forward, which is a leftist paper with leftist views on Israel, although it indeed supports its right to exist. Awfully big of them.
In his article, in which “he had found little evidence to suggest that Iran wanted to destroy Israel,” he talked to a bunch of Iranian leaders and—surprise, surprise!—they didn’t fess up to wanting to destroy Israel. Ergo, of course they don’t want to destroy Israel. That settles it.
He also talked to various ordinary Iranians, who also don’t seem to want to destroy Israel—not that anyone ever said that’s what the majority of the Iranian people want, by the way.
Please forgive me for being so cynical as to doubt that Cohler-Esses got to the heart of the matter.
F:
That’s why it angers me so much when people say “I’m not going to vote, because there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans.”
But Democrats in charge will give us an even more liberal Court than before. Republicans in charge has an imperfect, but FAR greater chance of turning the Court more conservative.
No Democrat, including Schumer, wants to be Lieberman’ed by the Left.
Didn’t people already declare Schumer to be a puppet?
But Democrats in charge will give us an even more liberal Court than before.
But the solution to that is obvious. Get rid of them.
The Jerusalem Post has the Forward article up and it’s open to comments. This one is very good:
Hussein was too busy with Fast and Furious, suppressing Tea Party, and selling arms in Libya and Qatar to train up the future ISIL.
He wasn’t going to do much for the Green revolution of Iran. Better that it die off, like the Tea Party did under his Regime.
The question that swirls around unanswered, to me at least, is what else the Hussein Regime and the Left’s God King is doing that we don’t know about.
Who else are they enslaving and punishing, that we aren’t allowed to know of?
Ymar: A lot.
G6loq: Arian is a member of an old nonTrinitarian religious sect.
I am Aryan!
“That is of interest to me in terms of whether the GOP shows any spine.”
Let me offer my 2 cents- The answer is NO!.
They may bluster and howl at the “boy king”, but they sold their souls a long time ago for their power and “prestige.” If they ever had and Principles and Beliefs, they willingly gave them up for a mess of porridge. 🙁
All we can hope for is that the Devil collects on their contracts sooner rather than later. 🙁
A Man for All Seasons (Quotes)
Sir Thomas More: Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales?
Sir Thomas More: I think that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
Sir Thomas More: When a man takes an oath, he’s holding his own self in his own hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then, he needn’t hope to find himself again.
Sir Thomas More: [in his prison cell] … If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that abhorrence, anger, pride, and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice, and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little – even at the risk of being heroes…
“That is of interest to me in terms of whether the GOP shows any spine.”
Let me offer my 2 cents- The answer is NO!.
Be joyful!:
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Wednesday the key to winning the 2016 election is “campaigning with your arms wide open” and “joy in your heart.”
I blame the donors ….
This Schumer creature is very very annoying.
Who will rid us of this troublesome nit?
neo-neocon
ok neo-neocon,
we all know Chants of ‘Death to America’ have been part of Iranian public life for almost 35 years.
Only Larry Cohler-Esses, reporter for the Forward don’t?
During Iranian celebration for the deal, Iranian officials and Iranians celebrated in the capital Tehran chanting:
Death to America, We Won, and We’ll Do Whatever We Want With Your Billions…..
I belive Larry Cohler-Esses either deaf or Blind to report what happen there if he was during the time Iranian celebrating .
Vast Testicular Concavity for Chucky cloned from His Infantile Majesty Obama. Little Dicky Durbin and Feckless Harry Reid have the exact same concavities.