GOP Senators…
All corrupted?
If not, how much more than 80%?
Sens. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are also working to block recent arms sales.
I’m looking forward to Trump inviting Graham to play golf this coming weekend. That should nip this bi-partisan move to block the arms deal in the bud…
So many opportunities for republikkkans to show a spine and actually stand up to the abomination’s most egregious abuses of power. Will they actually follow through? Fat chance.
And the ever stalwart Lindsey actually standing up to the abomination - bwaaahahahahahahahahaha…
At least the issue is being kept in the public eye.
The script here is well known: A majority in each house votes to block, Trump vetoes, a two-thirds vote fails. Case closed.
All Saudi Arabia has to do is promise to block asylum seekers and buy more corn and the weapons buy will get a green light.
In general the GOP seems to take their marching orders on Middle East affairs from Netanyahu and AIPAC, along with a few dozen other Jewish special interest voices, both domestic and Israeli based. Selling weapons and nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia has always been anathema to Israel’s policy and security interests. Why the hell Trump, and the GOP in general, gets an easy pass on even proposing such a deal is a puzzle.
Do those arms sales also include the sale and transfer of nuclear technology which have been done seven times since tRump has been in office? I thought that already happened, and against Congressional approval too. It happened 16 days after Khashoggi was murdered and it wasn’t the first time either. This maladministration will do whatever it wants regardless of what Congress says it can or can’t do. Their belligerence to defy Congress is a hallmark of this maladministration.
You’re off a bit. Netanyahu has been forging ties to Saudi and UAE for about a decade and Putin is in the mix as well. This is a high level deal of power brokers that ties into Iran opposition and Russian interests in Syria and dismantling NATO. Powerful men get personal wealth and Russia becomes a world power. The US, Israel, the EU and Iran all loose, except for a few corrupt leaders who win personally. The various Jewish PACs are not pushing this agenda and many are horrified by it. They are responsible for pealing a few GOP senators away from Trump. Trump has been trying to neutralize their animosity with the Jerusalem embassy and a ridiculously biased peace plan. If anything some of the Israel PACs are hoodwinked as part of a grand conspiracy to destroy Israel and carve up the world between Russia and Saudi.
How can they block recent sales? Ones that have not shipped yet.
Isn’t this the military-industrial complex at work?
Mel Brooks was prescient. Harvey Korman looks vaguely like Miss Lindsey, but sadly Slim Pickens doesn’t resemble Fat Nixon in the slightest. I guess that’s a good thing for Slim, though…
Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Todd Young (R-IN) have teamed up to request a report on Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, which could result in a vote to halt an arms trade worth billions.
Hey Senators, Trump cares nothing about human rights, not a wit or smidgen. If a Democratic or Republican member of Congress were to be taken hostage while traveling in the Middle East Trump wouldn’t care, you guys don’t fit into his vision of world power. If those that were taken come from a red state he might make a show of outrage, but he’ll still sell arms to SA on the side.
I wonder if Kushner understands that jews are banned from Saudi Arabia, even visiting Israel and having the stamp on your passport is enough for Saudis to to deny entry. Those are the guys that Kushner is selling nuclear arms technology.
Spank spank with a Golf Digest…
Ok Daddy, the deal is on.
Fer sure, Li’l Lindsey will run to the first camera he sees and with brown lips declare the Saudis “very fine people”.
You don’t marry into the First Family of Grift if you give a damn about any culture, or any people, or anything, actually, except more money. This boy is a blank slate on which anyone with a bag of cash can write. This (hopefully) short stint under the masters of idiocy will unfortunately yield terror for a long time.
hopefully this includes the recently revealed “nuclear technology” that apparently trumps has been giving the saudis and w/o congressional oversight…
A worry about GOP warmongers restricting arms trade only to ensure they get their cut, that Trump doesn’t take it all for himself.