GOP Will Force Reid to Save Obama’s Iran Policy—Over and Over Again

[DonViejo]

Dozens of Republican senators joined Wednesday to demand that Harry Reid allow a floor vote on a new Iran sanctions bill. If he doesn’t, they are planning to make his life miserable.

The Republican Senate caucus is planning to use every parliamentary trick in the book to push Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to allow a floor vote on a new Iran sanctions bill that the Obama administration strenuously opposes.

The Obama White House has succeeded in keeping most Democrats in line against supporting quick passage of the “Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act,” which currently has 59 co-sponsors, including 13 Democrats. Reid has faithfully shelved the bill, pending the outcome of negotiations between Iran and the world’s major powers—the so-called “P5+1.”

But tomorrow, Republicans plan to respond by using an array of floor tactics—including bringing up the bill and forcing Reid to publicly oppose it—as a means of putting public pressure on Reid and Democrats who may be on the fence.

“Now we have come to a crossroads. Will the Senate allow Iran to keep its illicit nuclear infrastructure in place, rebuild its teetering economy and ultimately develop nuclear weapons at some point in the future?” 42 GOP senators wrote in a letter sent to Reid late Wednesday and obtained by The Daily Beast. “The answer to this question will be determined by whether you allow a vote on S. 1881, the bipartisan Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act, which is cosponsored by more than half of the Senate.”

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[SamKnause]

1. Iran

Just one more example where bipartisanship on many issues can detrimental.

You do not negotiate with warmongering idiots.

[Scuba]

2. I presume you mean the Republican Party?

[SamKnause]

3. I do indeed.

They seem to be the party of war.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. How is forcing a vote on a law ...

that will likely end any diplomatic resolution of the Iran nuclear issue "saving (President) Obama's Iran policy"?

[Arkana]

5. Then Reid should stonewall and stonewall and stonewall.

Don't give these turds an inch because they will take a fucking mile.