The Bibi-Boehner Gambit Tanks

Nice job, dumbasses ....

Updated 12:34 p.m. | Make that one more veto threat President Barack Obama probably won’t have to carry out: Senate Democrats are abandoning efforts to pass an Iran sanctions bill over its nuclear program while talks continue, at least until March 24.

Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey announced during a Senate hearing Tuesday that he and other Senate Democrats would not support bringing the sanctions bill he cosponsored to the floor until that date. It comes after Menendez, in particular, has been harshly critical of the White House and the president for their handling of the Iran talks, and amid a brouhaha over the decision by Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, to snub the president and invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to the Congress without a prior heads-up to the White House.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, the No. 3 Democrat, Menendez, and eight other Democrats on Tuesday wrote Obama vowing not to vote for the sanctions bill before March 24 (full letter below).

The date gives Obama the breathing room he wanted, while keeping the active threat of additional sanctions on Iran if their government fails to reach a deal.

http://blogs.rollcall.com/white-house/obamas-big-win-on-iran-sanctions/?dcz=

Sal wrote:Nice job, dumbasses ....

Updated 12:34 p.m. | Make that one more veto threat President Barack Obama probably won’t have to carry out: Senate Democrats are abandoning efforts to pass an Iran sanctions bill over its nuclear program while talks continue, at least until March 24.

Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey announced during a Senate hearing Tuesday that he and other Senate Democrats would not support bringing the sanctions bill he cosponsored to the floor until that date. It comes after Menendez, in particular, has been harshly critical of the White House and the president for their handling of the Iran talks, and amid a brouhaha over the decision by Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, to snub the president and invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to the Congress without a prior heads-up to the White House.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, the No. 3 Democrat, Menendez, and eight other Democrats on Tuesday wrote Obama vowing not to vote for the sanctions bill before March 24 (full letter below).

The date gives Obama the breathing room he wanted, while keeping the active threat of additional sanctions on Iran if their government fails to reach a deal.

http://blogs.rollcall.com/white-house/obamas-big-win-on-iran-sanctions/?dcz=

Ouch!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/01/25/bibi-netanyahu-aka-the-republican-senator-from-israel-may-have-made-a-fatal-political-mistake/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/01/25/bibi-netanyahu-aka-the-republican-senator-from-israel-may-have-made-a-fatal-political-mistake/

So Obama will draw a half dozen additonal lines in the sand and watch Iran blow through them too.

My wife just got a facebook link from a friend who is on Marco Island and the Speaker of the House has bought about a three million dollar condo in the same building as our mutual friend who they are now visiting. The parking lot is full of Secret Service earlier this week and she spoke with them......I think it is pretty certain that the speaker is retiring after his two years.....so his invite and anything else he does has to be framed in the reality he does not give a crap......he is a public servant who can afford a three million dollar condo.....something is wrong.....and he will make more money lobbying after he retires. I guess sweeping the bar as a kid paid off by working for the federal government.