Posted on 01/25/2015 5:50:31 AM PST by Dave346
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California says that inviting Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress during an Israeli election period is “highly inappropriate” and that imposing new sanctions on Iran at this time is “reckless and dangerous.”
Feinstein’s statement to Haaretz comes against the backdrop of the growing backlash against Netanyahu’s upcoming March 3 speech to Congress, which is already causing some Democratic lawmakers to rethink their support for the Iran sanctions bill proposed by Democratic Senator Robert Menendez from New Jersey and Republican Senator Mark Kirk from Illinois.
According to journalist Laura Rozen of Al-Monitor, Menendez is trying to salvage what remains of Democratic support for his bill by proposing that any vote would be postponed till March 26, the target date by which Iran and Washington are to reach an agreement in principle on Iran’s nuclear program.
The liberal Feinstein, who is not one of the 12 Democratic co-sponsors of the Kirk-Menendez bill, said in a statement to Haaretz: "Inviting Prime Minister Netanyahu without consulting the administration is clearly a breach of protocol and an unwelcome injection of partisan politics into our foreign policy. It puts the United States in the middle of Israel’s election, which is highly inappropriate.”
Feinstein added “I also believe imposing additional sanctions on Iran in the midst of negotiations — which is what Netanyahu will reportedly discuss — would collapse the negotiations and ruin a historic diplomatic opportunity. Imposing sanctions now is reckless and dangerous.”
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If Di had read the bill before commenting on it, not a democrat characteristic, she'd know the sanctions go into effect only if an agreement isn't reached. Carrot, stick. Alternately she may know full well no agreement will be reached.
On the day of Netanyahu’s speech before congress, let’s see who shows up, and who stays away, from the Democrat side. There will then be no doubt, even with the low information voters, whose side they are on.
NO Diane!
Appeasing the TERRORIST STATE OF IRAN and FUNDING THEIR NUCLEAR AMBITIONS is WRONG!
Support Bibi and his efforts to STOP IRAN is THE ONLY RIGHT THING TO DO!!
Dick Blum must have big contracts on hold in Tehran.
‘’The love affair between the ‘’Israel Lobby’’ and the Democrats goes back a long time...’’
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That’s why, of the 53 current Democratic Senators plus Socialist Bernie Sanders, nine are Jewish — Richard Blumenthal, Barbara Boxer, Ben Cardin, Dianne Feinstein, Al Franken, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Ron Wyden, and Brian Emanuel Schatz.
Yet the senior member of the Jewish Democrats whom the ‘’Israel Lobby’’ bought and paid for in order to support Israel — Diane Feinstein — is leading the pro-Iran, anti-Israel faction in the Senate on the Iran sanctions issue, and her fellow ‘’Israel Lobby’’ benefactors are most likely in her corner.
This is beyond ‘’highly inappropriate.’’
The lowest circle of Dante’s hell is occupied by traitors who, according to Wikipedia, ‘’are distinguished from the “merely” fraudulent in that their acts involve betraying a special relationship of some kind.’’ That is the very definition of what Diane Feinstein is doing by stabbing her pro-Israel benefactors in the back by denouncing a visit to Congress by the Israeli prime minister.
And Dianne Feinstein herself is the very definition of an evil old yenta.
I think you mean the late, not so great, Hugo Chavez.
Old Robert Byrd in his younger days was a member of the terrorist arm of the Dim party, but as a Senator he at least often stood up for the Senate as an institution. The lack of standing up for the institution of Congress by the Dim members today shows how ruthless and corrupt the Dims have become.
Get your booger hook off of the bang switch bimbo!
You’re correct. I’ll have to blame that one on 6:00AM and no coffee yet.
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