{"id":20270,"date":"2015-04-08T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20270"},"modified":"2015-04-08T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:39:27","slug":"sen-schumer-and-7-other-democrats-are-making-a-terrible-choice-siding-with-gop-on-iran-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/08\/sen-schumer-and-7-other-democrats-are-making-a-terrible-choice-siding-with-gop-on-iran-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Schumer and 7 other Democrats are making a terrible choice siding with GOP on Iran bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the article <a title=\"The Daily Kos article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/04\/07\/1375968\/-Sen-Schumer-and-seven-other-Democrats-are-making-a-terrible-choice-on-Iran-bill?detail=email\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Schumer and 7 other Democrats are making a terrible choice siding with GOP on Iran bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chuck Schumer, the expected replacement as top Senate Democrat when Harry Reid retires at the end of his term, has made a big splash in the past few days by saying he supports a bill designed to give Congress the clout to wreck a deal with Iran. He is not, of course, the only Democrat backing the Corker-Menendez bill, S. 615, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015. Since March 26, when Schumer quietly signed on as the latest of eight Democratic co-sponsors of the bill, it&#8217;s had 21 co-sponsors, including one independent, Sen. Angus King of Maine.<\/p>\n<p>But given his clout, Schumer could be key to making it okay for other Democrats to support the bill, giving it the 67 votes it would need to override the veto that President Obama has vowed to impose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I always knew there were reasons why I thought Chuck Schumer was a jerk.\u00a0 This is one of the reasons besides his being the Senator from Wall Street.\u00a0 I shudder to think what he might say about Elizabeth Warren if only his Wall Street friends were listening.\u00a0 Is he also the Senator from the military\/industrial complex.\u00a0 He is certainly no friend of Israel in taking this stance.<\/p>\n<p>I hope we can muster enough outcry to prevent Shumer from replacing Harry Reid.\u00a0 If he did replace Harry Reid, Elizabeth Warren might have less reason to want to stay in the Senate and more reason to want to run for President.\u00a0 That could be a good thing.\u00a0 Maybe there really is a silver lining in every cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the article Sen. Schumer and 7 other Democrats are making a terrible choice siding with GOP on Iran bill. Chuck Schumer, the expected replacement as top Senate Democrat when Harry Reid retires at the end of his term, has made a big splash in the past few days by saying he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20271,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270\/revisions\/20271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}