In setback, Obama concedes Congress role on Iran deal
Source: Nation
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama conceded on Tuesday that Congress will have the power to review a nuclear deal with Iran, reluctantly giving in to pressure from Republicans and some in his own party after they crafted a rare compromise demanding a say.
The role for the Republican-controlled Congress injects a new element of uncertainty into the delicate final stages of negotiations between major powers and Iran aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator Bob Corker, who wrote the bill, said the White House had agreed to go along with the bill only after it was clear there was strong Democratic support. The legislation was passed unanimously by the committee and is expected to pass the full Senate and then the House of Representatives.
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Bipartisan support for the bill had grown in recent weeks to near the 67 votes needed to override any presidential veto.
Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2015/04/14/news/nation/in-setback-obama-concedes-congress-role-on-iran-deal/
Hey, Hey, GOP! How many boys (and girls) will you kill today?
After all, war is much more profitable than peace!
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Oh, Josh. You've *got* to stop following me around. People will say we're in love. 
Today's dispensing of Third Way spin is charmingly oily, but weak on substance, as usual. But it's okay. People need to see the patterns of the talking points.
So illustrative to pretend that net neutrality is safe....
*Even* if we were to pretend that the widely publicized "final victory" on net neutrality weren't utter nonsense (As the link below shows, everything predictably becomes uncertain again *after* the PR blitz is over and adulation for Third Way politicians has been safely pocketed...)
Congress Is STILL Trying to Destroy Net Neutrality - April 14, 2015
http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/04/14/congress-still-trying-destroy-net-neutrality
*Even* if we pretended that the administration had actually done what it should and could have done all along and reclassified the internet as a public utility...."Even* if Obama had not appointed a crony telecom corporatist as head of the FCC.....And *even* if threats to net neutrality weren't predictably resurfacing in Congress, as always seems to happen with faux Third Way "liberal victories" once the adulation dies down...
...Even if all that weren't the case, we *still* know that Hillary's and Obama's TPP will take care of that little net neutrality problem even if by some chance the FCC PR rules stand. It's a clever tactic by corporatists to run on policies and promises they know will be completely dwarfed and made irrelevant by predatory actions they pursue simultaneously. It's called talking out of both sides of your mouth...
...or PR
[font size=3]...or LYING. [/font size]
HOW THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP WILL UNDERMINE INTERNET FREEDOM
http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpacts_InternetFreedom.html
Let’s Take Apart The Corporate Case For Fast Track Trade Authority...Net Neutrality a Target of TPP
http://ourfuture.org/20150129/the-corporate-arguments-for-fast-track?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak
Can America Really Have Net Neutrality? Not If the TPP Passes ...
http://economyincrisis.org/content/can-america-really-have-net-neutrality-not-if-the-tpp-passes
[font size=2]Yes, while claiming to protect net neutrality, Obama is pushing to fast-track the net neutrality-assaulting TPP. [/font size]
It's the Third Way MO. Promise one thing, maybe even deliver a temporary little carrot while seeking public adulation for it...while you are simultaneously pushing for the hammer that will render your little carrot meaningless, a cruel joke. It' a familiar, cynical, predatory game that we all know by heart now, because we have seen it repeated so many times by Third Way Democrats. And the overall outcome *always* keeps moving us steadily into corporate rule and away from democracy.
It's the very same MO as pretending you care about income inequality and giving pretty speeches suggesting you want to raise the minimum wage, while you are simultaneously pushing for H1B visas or to fast-track a predatory "trade agreement that will gut American jobs and slash pay for FULLY 90 PERCENT of American workers.
Obama and Hillary's TPP will mean a pay cut for 90 percent of American workers.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4141426
And it's the same MO as insincere, massively publicized speeches about reining in military power, followed immediately by huge escalations in military power, a new war in Syria, a new war in Iraq, carpet bombing of captive populations in Gaza, a continuation of the unconscionable droning of civilians in multiple countries with which we are not at war, continued massive escalation of military forces in Africa, and a new TRILLION DOLLAR ramp-up of nuclear weapons.
It's what Third Way politicians do. They advertise, and they manipulate, and they lie. They are always looking for an opportunity to APPEAR to support progressive causes, while working behind the scenes to ensure that the overall outcome is corporate.
Now, you will continue to deny the patterns, as you always do, or to issue absurd challenges to PROVE that the well-established patterns will continue. We have learned, however, that the best predictor of the future behavior of corporate politicians is the past behavior of corporate politicians.
Of course we don't have net neutrality safe in our pockets, as those of us who follow patterns knew we wouldn't. And just as we predicted that there would be more war in Iraq and Syria from this administration (as the PNAC and neocons...now also neolibs...demand...), we also predicted that triumphant claims of achieved peace and diplomacy with Iran would turn out to be vastly overstated. And here we are.
There's a structure to Kabuki. Once you understand corporate motives, you know the scripts by heart and can predict the next act. Anyone can do it. The MIC budget will always be preserved, because the blood profiteers *need* perpetual new conflict and threat to keep justifying their murderous profit machine.
It's not going to stop, and we won't have a true opposition party, until we get the filthy corporate money out of our government and elections and purge our government of Wall Street-bankrolled corporate liars wearing both Republican *and* Democrat costumes.
