"Now Even AIPAC Says It's Not The Right Time To Advance Iran Sanctions Bill"

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Now Even AIPAC Says It's Not The Right Time To Advance Iran Sanctions Bill

The Huffington Post | by Ashley Alman

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/06/aipac-iran-sanctions_n_4741748.html

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“I have long thought of this as a bipartisan national security issue -– not a partisan political issue -– and at the end of the day a national security issue that we must approach in a spirit of bipartisanship and unity, which has been the spirit for which we have worked together on this matter," Menendez said. "I hope that we will not find ourselves in a partisan process trying to force a vote on a national security matter before its appropriate time.”

Requests for comment from Kirk, the Republican cosponsor of the bill, and from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who was among those signing the letter pressing for fast action, were not immediately returned.

AIPAC has completely reversed course on the issue. For months, the group had been lobbying lawmakers hard to push the Iran sanctions bill, even launching an attack on one of its biggest allies, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), for not supporting it. Only in recent weeks has AIPAC begun backing off in the face of resistance from the White House and key Democratic lawmakers, including Reid.

"As usual, Republicans overplayed their hand and it backfired," said a Senate Democratic leadership aide.




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[Jesus Malverde]

1. Obama took them to the woodshed.

They have drifted so far from the mainstream they can hardly make out land....