Senate Dems block vote to disapprove of Iran deal for the second time

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Source: Associated Press

For the second time, Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to move forward on a resolution rejecting the Iran nuclear deal, protecting President Barack Obama's key foreign policy initiative.

The measure failed Tuesday to gain the 60 votes needed to advance — just as it did last Thursday. The vote was 56 to 42.

Though the measure is unlikely to advance, Republicans staged the Senate vote to make political points against Democrats and in future Senate races. They point to polls showing Americans have reservations about the deal.

The second vote was not the final word in the Senate. Frustrated with the outcome, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set up a third vote Thursday on a measure that would bar Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran unless Tehran recognized Israel as a state and released U.S. prisoners held in Iran.



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[napi21]

1. Well yeah! I wonder if he has a limit to how many times

he'll try? Remember...Insanity-keep repeating the same thing, hoping for a different outcome."

[Fred Sanders]

3. The limit is how many times the corporate media will let him which is probably a lot.

No way the GOP or their masters in media will let Americans think Obama has achieved a historical milestone for peace hailed by the entire planet if they can help it....which in time they will not.

The mass media is slowly losing it's decades long control of most of American public opinion on foreign policy, not quite there yet but the Iran peace deal could be the straw that breaks the mass media's tight grip.

Wasting time on nothing means less time to do something.

[DCBob]

2. Republicans are good at wasting votes.

[liberal N proud]

5. With the Republican record, there will be 2 dozen more votes.

Persistence of cock roches.