Rubio, Cotton throw Iran bill passage into question

[BlueStater]

Source: CNN.com

Rubio, Cotton throw Iran bill passage into question

By Ted Barrett, CNN

Updated 8:05 PM ET, Thu April 30, 2015

Washington (CNN)—A procedural sneak attack by a pair of Republican senators has thrown a monkey wrench into the debate over the Iran bill as the two critics of a nuclear deal with Iran insist they get votes on their amendments to toughen the legislation.

Their effort has the potential to doom the bill altogether. Republican leaders scrambled in response to find a path forward to preserve it.

The move threatens a careful effort to protect the bill from what supporters consider "poison pill" amendments that would dramatically alter the bill and lead to a presidential veto. If that happened, Congress would be cut out of any role in approving the still emerging agreement with Iran.

"I have said time and time again, the Senate needs to vote on the merits of the agreement," a frustrated Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, said on the floor. "We have been consistently blocked from bringing up these amendments for votes."


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/30/politics/marco-rubio-tom-cotton-iran-bill-congress/index.html

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What a pair of attention-craved assclowns. This country needs to stop electing petulant children to office.

[geek tragedy]

1. The poison pill in question is an explicit attempt to get us to fight a war for Israel.

An unholy alliance of the MIC and Shelly Adelson-style Israel-firsters.

[SoapBox]

2. Ditto to the

attention craving assclowns.

[Volaris]

3. "We have been consistently blocked from bringing up these amendments for votes."

Gee I really wish I knew what THAT felt like...
OH WAIT.

I guess legislative obstruction by the Congressional Minority isnt exactly to the liking of those who would actually like to vote on things. Who would have ever thought such a thing.
Under other circumstances, I would feel for him, as I understand his plight. Those other circumstances being, NOT the complete destruction of functional government for the sake of demographic fear, bigotry, and kowtowing to the idiot, Fox-watching mobs in their party for the last 6 years.

Fuck his sad. Little bitch.

[IDemo]

4. "Right now we're a little balled up," said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas

Johnny, we've been trying to tell you that for years..

[Monk06]

5. In the existing political climate which has become a permanent feature of the US political culture,

elected representatives have one function: to get reelected.

Even rookies begin campaigning for reelection from the minute they are sworn in. This is the source of grandstanding and legislative sabotage of the efforts of the executive branch.

It has led to the interference in a legitimate effort to solve and international security issue by a hostile GOP senate and the subsequent effort to sabotage THAT effort by a pair of GOP senate noobs who are only interested in headlines and their pathetic presidential campaigns.

In the old days the senate whip would have beat this rookies back into line and made them behave like adults.

Not any more. From now on you have foreign policy rubber stamped when a Repug is president and actively undermined when a Democrat is president.

The result is the world knows that America's word cannot be trusted. This leaves policy in the hands of hidden forces in the military, the CIA and behind the scenes manipulations by US corporations who make a fortune from political paralysis and war.