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Eugene

(61,935 posts) Thu Jul 16, 2015, 01:44 PM Jul 2015

Pelosi gets squarely behind Obama on deal with Iran

Source: Washington Post

Pelosi gets squarely behind Obama on deal with Iran

By Paul Kane July 16 at 12:10 PM

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) threw her full support Thursday behind the Obama administration's deal with Iran to curb development of an Iranian nuclear weapon program. That is good news for President Obama, who will need Democratic support to fend off fierce GOP opposition to the deal.

"I'm so proud of this," Pelosi told reporters at her weekly news briefing. She said she would aggressively sell the plan to the Democratic caucus ahead of a mid-September vote. If Congress reached a veto-proof majority disapproving of the deal, Obama would be restricted from lifting congressionally mandated sanctions against Iran. Ending those sanctions is the key U.S. offer to Iran in exchange for curtailing its development of a nuclear weapon.

Those votes in the House and Senate are likely to produce majority opposition to Obama's deal, given the widespread outrage from congressional Republicans since the agreement was announcedTuesday. Whether those opponents can muster large enough majorities to override a presidential veto remains a longshot, however. Obama has promised to veto any legislation that tries to derail the agreement.

"This is a bad deal," House Speaker John A Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters at his briefing after Pelosi spoke. "We're going to fight a bad deal."

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Pelosi gets squarely behind Obama on deal with Iran (Original Post) Eugene Jul 2015 OP

Great news! mucifer Jul 2015 #1

Can anyone find Dems against this? daybranch Jul 2015 #12

Is it finally dawning on the corporate media that the nuclear agreement is a done deal and no Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #2

Joe knew his pat, shallow lies were no match for Kerry's wisdom, intellect and accuracy. blm Jul 2015 #8

I agree - he often had Kerry on when he was a Senator and often ending up convinced karynnj Jul 2015 #9

Why does the press ask Boehner about the agreement..... Cosmic Dancer Jul 2015 #3

Good for her! lark Jul 2015 #4

I wonder which traitors awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #6

Menendez will vote against the agreement lark Jul 2015 #7

As she should. nt sufrommich Jul 2015 #5

and that will get the RWNJ even more in an uproar Roland99 Jul 2015 #10

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jul 2015 #11

mucifer

(23,558 posts)

1. Great news!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2015, 01:45 PM

Jul 2015

daybranch

(1,309 posts)

12. Can anyone find Dems against this?

Reply to mucifer (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 07:40 PM

Jul 2015

But Hillary sure sounds like she might be in her speeches to AIPAC. Or is her tough talk just talk?

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

2. Is it finally dawning on the corporate media that the nuclear agreement is a done deal and no

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 10:07 AM

Jul 2015

amount of their GOP boosting cauterwauling will make any difference?

Morning Joe seems to have seen the light judging by his passive persona and tone today with Kerry.

Also proud of the President, Madame Speaker, not near enough pride is being expressed.

blm

(113,080 posts)

8. Joe knew his pat, shallow lies were no match for Kerry's wisdom, intellect and accuracy.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 05:40 PM

Jul 2015

So, he didn't bother to try…..this time.

karynnj

(59,504 posts)

9. I agree - he often had Kerry on when he was a Senator and often ending up convinced

Reply to blm (Reply #8)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:22 PM

Jul 2015

- most notably when Kerry spoke of the need for a huge infrastructure bill and explained his idea of leveraging the money allocated by creating an infrastructure bank ... an idea Obama backed in a later SOTU, but obviously the Republicans were not interested.

I suspect that he knew he would - very politely - get his head handed to him if he tried to debate the long ago Yale debate champion on a subject JK has spent the last 2 - 3 weeks consumed by --- after working years on it.

I've watched a lot of his interviews on this - and though he was visibly tired, he is better than I have ever seen him in concisely answering every doubt. It did remind me of his many hours on the Senate floor working on START. What is clear is that he did worry each and every point - thus I seriously doubt it is possible to ask him anything on this that he would not have a well defined answer.

In addition, there is Wendy Sherman's account of his final words when everyone was speaking of what the deal meant to them. She spoke of Kerry speaking of going to Vietnam and never wanting to go to war again. He then felt that if he was ever lucky enough to hold a position of influence he wanted to use diplomacy, not war. He was, per Sherman, emotional as were those listening. It recalled the letter that Tour of Duty published where he wrote of hoping he could do something against war - in writing to his fiance after she sent him a telegram that a close friend of his, Pershing, had died in Vietnam. It also recalled that the Boston Globe had reported that the day Obama publicly announced JK as SoS nominee, he went too Arlington.

This deal - if it holds - may avert what would be a catastrophic war. This is very possibly what he was born to do.

Cosmic Dancer

(70 posts)

3. Why does the press ask Boehner about the agreement.....

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 10:34 AM

Jul 2015

They should just ask Adelson how he has instructed Republicans to vote.

lark

(23,138 posts)

4. Good for her!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:50 PM

Jul 2015

She's on board with this, as she totally should be. Any Democrat who votes against this is squarely in little murderers back pocket and is working for him & the 1%, not for the good of our country as a whole.