Wasserman Schultz backs Iran deal

[think]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Democratic Party Chairwoman and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Sunday she will vote in favor of President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.

"In weighing everything, all the information, I've concluded the best thing to do is vote in support of the Iran deal and put Iran years away from being a nuclear state," Wasserman Schutz, the first Jewish-American woman to represent Florida in Congress, told CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday on "State of the Union."

The vote gives Obama key support as he looks to build consensus among Democrats as Congress returns this week to take up the proposal. He has already locked in enough votes in the Senate to sustain a veto.

Wasserman Schultz explained her reasoning in an op-ed in The Miami Herald Sunday.

"I wrote an op-ed in there today that talks about this and my Jewish heart and how important this was to me that as a Jewish mother," she said, holding back tears. "We have a concept of l'dor v'dor -- from generation to generation -- there's nothing more important to me, as a Jew, than to ensure Israel's existence is there throughout our generations."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/06/politics/wasserman-schultz-supports-iran-deal/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. So do alot of Democrats....

[teach me everything]

2. She was against it before she was for it.

Remember the DNC meeting last week? I sure as heck do.

[VanillaRhapsody]

5. And Obama has been campaigning

For support of it....

Do you have an alternative by the way?

Even Lawrence Wilkerson says there is none....

[maddiemom]

40. EVEN Lawrence Wilkerson?

He's practically the only "sane" Republican in existence (if he still identifies as a Repug).

[roguevalley]

20. she ate it on twitter and facebook. that's why. old self preservation first. I am

glad I told her to fuck herself on Facebook and twitter. do it every time. they're cowards

[Sienna86]

3. I've replied to all her fundraising emails with a request she support the treaty

Glad she is supporting the deal.

[PoliticAverse]

11. Heh, you clearly understood how to get the point across. n/t

[24601]

18. The agreement is not a Treaty. If it were, it would require Advice & Consent of the Senate. The

House of Representatives would have no role and, and once approved, would not be able to be undone unilaterally by a future President.

However, this would not receive Senate approval and is being enacted instead as an Executive agreement based on a statute. Under those provisions, Congress can block the deal by passing legislation and overriding a certain veto. That also will not happen.

So this is enacted as an agreement made by the President - and that a future President can undo without Congressional approval.

[Chakab]

4. Shocking. The Democrats are actually imposing internal party discipline on this one.

[olegramps]

6. She came to the realization that her position was in jeopardy.

Her apparent enlightenment still doesn't make her any more reliable than before. She has been an unmitigated disappointment. I still say dump her and get some effective leadership.

[closeupready]

7. +1 gazillion.

[fbc]

9. yeah, Debbies priorities, in order: Her position, Israel, the US

[olegramps]

19. Their are far too many in Congress are better reps of Israel than the USA.

Some are beholding to the nitwit evangelicals who put think their salvation is dependent of the future of Israel. Others are in reality just their agents. What burns me up more than anything else is that Israel has a large nuclear arsenal and I fear that they would not hesitate to use it.

As to their concern about Iran secretly obtaining nuclear capabilities they are well versed in covert development since they repeatedly lied about their program and have refused to sign a the non-nuclear proliferation treaty. I can hope that whoever is elected will continue Obama's justified distrust of Israel such as their continued building program in occupied territories. Their present government has absolutely no intention of every coming to an agreement of a two-state solution and cling to some ridiculous myth that God gave them title to the land.

The only actual claim that they have is that their ancestors slaughtered the inhabitants with God's blessing, killed all the males including children and only spared those females who were virgins all according to them at the command of God. Read Numbers 3.15-18. "Why have you kept all the women alive...So now kill every boy and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse, but keep alive all the women who are virgins."

[kiri]

22. yea, verily

[Plucketeer]

26. I could not agree more, gramps!

Every single word you've said resonates with this old gramps. We've poured SO MUCH MONEY down that useless zealot hole that we ought to be holding the deed to the place!

It's not that I can't comprehend why we're there for these folks - it's just that I can't see WHY it should matter to me since I and most folks I know - DO NOT CARE. The outlandish "AID" we lavish them - how about we spend that money on OUR country????? Gah!

[teach me everything]

10. +∞

∞

[Chakab]

15. Her position should still be in jeopardy. She's an atrocious DNC chair and has no business holding

any position of authority in the party or the Congressional caucus.

[kiri]

21. no $$ to any Democrat while DWS is in charge

We get phone calls, mail solicitations, email requests weekly from the DNC, state Democrats, even Obama (we have given enough to be in the Presidential Circle or some such nonsense--packages of photos, certificates, cost $5 each). Our answer for the last year: not a dime until DWS is gone.

Not a dime until DWS is gone.

[Auggie]

25. Yes ... dump her. Dems will be way better off.

[tularetom]

8. It was going to happen without her and she knew she'd be under the microscope

and if enough Dems were pissed off at her she might lose her gig with the DNC.

Good on her for doing this but she still needs to go.

[woodsprite]

12. Her quote should probably be more in align

With what she was thinking: there's nothing more important to me, than to ensure My existence in the Dem leadership."

[oldandhappy]

13. Ha! Thank you to everyone who contacted her.

Feedback can be amazing! Keep it up everyone, let people know what you think.

[Unknown Beatle]

34. Read post #8.

Since Obama had the votes he needed, DWS suddenly changed her mind.

Do you honestly think that her position would have changed if Obama was short on votes?

DWS is a schmuck.

[oldandhappy]

36. Yes, got it!

[davidpdx]

37. That's exactly what I was thinking when I read the article

Geesh...do you have ESPN or something?

[A Simple Game]

14. Maybe she's afraid the job Hillary promised in her administration may not materialize

and she better hedge her bets.

[Iggo]

16. She saw the light when she was about to be replaced.

Big whoop.

[SmittynMo]

17. I don't trust her in the least bit.

Too many red flags over the past several years. She opposed this just 1 week ago.

[orange you glad]

24. She should still be replaced, for electoral reasons

Dreaming of Dean...

[SoapBox]

23. Surprise, surprise...

Think she got a bit worried about her cushy job...hell, this was probably more about her than the deal.

[Dont call me Shirley]

27. She HAD to do that or she was going to lose her DNC leadership.

[orpupilofnature57]

28. First thing she's done in a long time that I like .

[Fred Sanders]

30. This, I trust, will end all of the carping around here about Madame Chair's decision-making and allegiance.

Or will be forgotten and a new outrage about the DNC will be invented to fill the void...could go either way.

Prescience is a tough gig.

All hail the awesomeness of Obama!

P.s. As always - note to free press: the vote will be on a resolution of disapproval - naughty, naughty! - of the Iran deal, which Obama was never legally obligated to abide by even if the resolution was not about to meet this embarrassingly early demise.

All hail Obama!

[Unknown Beatle]

35. Why should it end?

She's still an incompetent and weak leader, and nothing is going to change that fact.

[davidpdx]

38. Her decision came well after Pelosi stated that enough votes existed to sustain a veto in the House

If anything it proves that DWS and Hillary Clinton have one more thing in common:

[Fred Sanders]

39. Can't win for trying with some folks. Remember last week when she "shut down an Iran peace

deal resolution" and folks were apoplectic that Wasserman-Schultz was a traitor and sure to vote for the resolution of disapproval and some such, etc., etc?

I do not suffer much from amnesia.

Democratic Party attacks on Clinton....after the Republican attacks, it ain't nothing.

[Gothmog]

31. Yeah-both the House and the Senate have the votes to sustain a veto

[SunSeeker]

32. Good. nt

[marble falls]

33. Funny how a good mugging will bring a person around.

[valerief]

41. Ah, so today it's politically expedient for her to be "for" it. nt