1. Ted voted NO on cloture. As long as cloture had not passed, the bill would have never been brought to the floor for a vote. Therefore, Ted did not want this bill to brought to the floor without an important amendment...
Good, if he opposed this and he voted against cloture he was doing the right thing on that vote. As for all the detail about his amendment, it's moot. The amendment was not attached. Discussion of it is obfuscating what happened.
2. McConnell allowed the bill to offer Senators a chance to disapprove OBAMA’S IRAN DEAL.
What's the point. If it's a treaty the Senate needs to approve it. By 2/3.
Here is the Hill's summary of this bill:
The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday to give Congress the authority to review an emerging nuclear agreement with Iran, despite vocal opposition from some conservative Republicans who said the bill was not strong enough.
Still not clear that this bill accomplishes anything good. The Senate could have waited to let Obama do what he is going to do, passed a bill forbidding it (by SIMPLE MAJORITY) and sent it to Obama for certain veto. That would have been more effective for media use, and would more closely follow the normal Constitutional provisions for legislation.
Now we have a weird 2/3 majority needed to overturn, so basically no matter how bad the bill is Obama is guaranteed that he won't be faced with having to veto anything.
3. Ted’s version of the Bill .... blah, blah, blah. It wasn't the version passed.
” OK, I’ll play, seeing as you’ve insulted me as “cerebrally challenged””: “
Oh no Jack, in 80,000 posts I have never attacked YOU, nor would I. I agree with you at least 90% of the time. Probably even higher than that.