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Senate Democrats Back Off Iran Sanctions to Save Obama

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mystery-ak:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/31/Democrat-Senators-Back-Off-Iran-Sanctions-To-Save-Obama



 by AWR Hawkins 31 Jan 2014, 2:03 PM PDT

Unnamed sources told AFP that Democrats who were signed up for more sanctions against Iran have now "privately recoiled from a damaging vote against their own president."

According to AFP, "several Democrat Senators who previously backed a bi-partisan sanctions bill stepped back after Obama threatened a veto during his State of the Union address on Tuesday."

With the Democrats changing position, the bill is quickly losing momentum, and the once-imminent vote on new sanctions is imminent no more.

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said: "I am strongly supporting the bill but I think a vote is unnecessary right now as long as there's visible and meaningful progress [in the negotiations]." At a post-State of the Union event, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said, "Now is not the time for a vote on an Iran sanctions bill."

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he lent support to the new sanctions bill not so it could be brought up for a vote, but so Obama could use it as "a hammer" in negotiations.

Chieftain:
yah...look for them to get busy instead on a resolution congratulating The Preezy for his many successes in Syria.......

 :smokin:

Oceander:
I wonder what sort of blackmail this lame duck of a lame duck president cudgeled these idiots with.

flowers:
 :nometalk:

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