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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWarmongers get schooled: How GOP hawks lost their chance to scuttle an Iran deal
The Iran review bill is flying through Congress, but House Dems are making their pro-deal stance clearJIM NEWELL
The Senate finally passed the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act yesterday by a margin of 98-1. The process of getting it to the finish line was not as easy as that vote count suggests.
The amendment process was disrupted by some showmanship from Sens. Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton, whose stunt to force votes on their poison pill amendments pulled the curtain early on the debate process. (It provided a nice splash page for Rubios campaign website, though. Rubios job in the Senate is now largely confined to trolling his colleagues for splash page material.) Then Sen. David Vitter, whos aiming to ride his similarly useless, stunt-driven Senate record to a stint in the Louisiana governors mansion, held up the process because he didnt get a vote on his oh-so-vital pwecious amendment. Eventually everyone relented and voted for the bill, except for Tom Cotton, whom neoconservatives will surely cheer for this latest episode of Churchillian resistance.
The bill now heads over to the House, where some conservatives will probably want to attach colorful amendments, and John Boehner, like Mitch McConnell, will have to shut them out to avoid resurrecting the White House veto threat. Should it escape that process untarnished, it will likely receive an overwhelming majority there and then President Obama will sign it into law.
And if the administration, in concert with fellow P5+1 negotiators, finishes off a final agreement with the Iranians that resembles the preliminary framework released in early April, it will almost certainly go into effect without congressional resistance.
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Warmongers get schooled: How GOP hawks lost their chance to scuttle an Iran deal (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2015
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Oh yeah the GOP house will have to show their ugly side again
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. The fact that selfish "showmanship" on a vital issue is not rewarded with demands for resignation is what is wrong with
this picture.