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He may as well have said, I’m not going to remotely dignify the ignorant jingoistic crackers an whackos in the legislature of a such a primitive banana republic.
How’s he wrong?
Consider this scenario: the Senate here putzkees around and manages to overcome Obama’s veto of Corker’s bill. So at that point, the OTHER 5, the other four plus Germany, all have ‘better’ relations with Iran, and get preferred trading status with Iran over the U.S. So, how exactly is the U.S. government then going to restore sanctions removed per the accord? HTF does the US even start on sanctions without UN or surrounding neighbor cooperation - which WE WILL NOT GET!
So the Congressional GOPers are about to go into pure Kabuki theater on this, screw its own on trade relations with a huge country with massive resources and massive markets and a DESIRE to buy American … why, exactly? To spite the black guy in the Oval Office?
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The Iranian president need not worry. The Corker bill was revised and now serves little more than a face-saving function for Congressional hawks.
After a lobbying effort by the administration and intense discussion among Senators, the Senate bill was watered down:
The Congress now has 30 days, down from 60, to vote on a bill after the Iran deal is unveiled after June 30.
If Congress rejects the deal, Obama would have 12 days to consider a veto. If Obama issued a veto, Congress would have 10 days to consider overriding it and would need 67 votes to override. Under the old version, Obama would not be able to veto it.
Previous language requiring Obama to certify every 90 days that Iran is no longer sponsoring terrorism – or else sanctions would be re-imposed – was removed. Instead, Obama must update Congress periodically, without consequence, on Iranian activity with regard to ballistic missiles and terrorism.
A planned amendment by Sen. Marco Rubio requiring Iran to recognize the existence of Israel was dropped without discussion.
Sen. Ron Johnson also abandoned an amendment to make any Iran accord into a formal international treaty needing two-thirds of the Senate for its ratification
Basically, the deal will only allow Congress to set up a future vote to lift concessions it enacted in an effort to pressure Iran into negotiating.
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Thanks for this important info - puts the final version of the Corker bill into perspective.
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There were articles yesterday in the NY Times, USA Today and Reuters.
Here are some links
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And he’s right. Do the GOPers know they’re being schooled by an EYEranian?
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no. and they don’t care. base-playing is the number 1 agenda.