Exactly how it would restrain Iran, the voter-retired senator did not say. Lugar's comments, together with an op-ed co-written with former Democrat Senator J. Bennett Johnston, praised Obama's deal and harshly attacked Democratic Senator Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) 2% for being the first Democrat to break with the President. By becoming the first Republican figure to openly endorse a deal opposed by a large majority of American, and universally rejected by every single elected member of Lugar's own Republican party, the octogenarian Hoosier continues his career practice of espousing foreign policy positions nearly identical to those promoted by America's left-leaning foreign policy establishment clique.