Friday, September 11, 2015

Who Wants Honesty About the Iran Deal?

We all do. What we don't want is political posturing and spin. So here's what one person thinks about the deal:

The Congresscritters and Senators who are opposed to it have three main reasons; some of them have two of them (though I don't know of any who have all three). In no particular order, the reasons are




  1. They are honoring the wishes of their district's or states Jewish constituency, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it crystal clear that if you're Jewish, you have to be opposed. That's where the majority of the Democratic "NO" votes are coming from, though I don't know of any Republican legislators who have a substantial Jewish voting bloc in their districts. 
  2. It's a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that the deal was negotiated by the Obama administration and departed Secretary of State John Kerry. No Republican legislator who wants to escape his party primary will ever sign off on anything put forth by them guys. Case closed.
  3. Maybe you hadn't thought about this, but a substantial number of Republican legislators are "TEA Party" types, The TEA Party, for all its protestations to the contrary, is little more than a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries. Koch Industries and its owners, the Koch brothers, benefit from high crude oil prices. Lifting sanctions on Iran releases the crude oil held by the country with the second largest petroleum reserves in the world. If you think oil prices are low now, just wait until Iranian oil floods the market. The Kochs and their fellow oil billionaires are scared shitless this will happen and pulled out all the stops to keep it from happening.
Some legislators are both Republican (Reason 2) and represent oil-producing states (Reason 3).

Any thoughts?

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