“That might get the President’s attention”, Earnest said.
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Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon in an interview to German weekly magazine Der Spiegel said that he bore no responsibility “for the life expectancy of Iranian scientists”, local media reports said.
Lawmakers are required to vote on whether to accept the Iran agreement by September 17. But although the president’s main goal in the speech was to review the reasons this is the case and to beat back ill-guided attempts to destroy the agreement in the U.S. Congress, he made some more general points about the attitudes and beliefs that underlie those attempts and also underlay the launching of a disastrous war in Iraq 12 years ago. “They are making a common cause with the Republican caucus”.
Candidates also expressed opposition to the recently completed nuclear deal with Iran, which critics say will make Tehran a nuclear threshold state and grant it as much as $100 billion in sanctions relief to further bolster its regional terrorist proxies.
Gov. Scott Walker (R., Wisc.) encapsulated much of the candidates’ criticism of the Obama administration when he said that, “we are leading from behind under the Obama-Clinton doctrine”.
“I would say he’s incompent but I won’t do that because it’s not nice”, he said to cheers. Gerry Connolly of Virginia, Joe Courtney of Connecticut and Donald Payne Jr. of New Jersey.
Ten of the 17 Republican presidential candidates appeared yesterday at the Fox News’s first primary debate in Ohio where they spoke about pressing issues including Iran, ISIS, immigration, abortion, economy. Chuck Schumer, Gillibrand’s New York colleague and likely future Senate Democratic leader, has yet to declare his position.
Walker called the deal an example of the “Obama-Clinton” “failed foreign policy.” Sen. “If Iran had nuclear bomb capacity, the world would be a more threatened place”, Cuomo asserted. I know we have different opinions among our congressional delegation.
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Failure to do that would mean a federal shutdown, which GOP leaders want to avoid because the public faulted them the last time it happened. Hitting Republicans hard, Obama compared his political rivals to anti-American Iranians.
