Evidently, how my NY Senators, Chuck Schumer moreso than Kirsten Gillibrand, will vote on the Iran nuclear agreement is a big thing.
The story linked above is relatively balanced, compared to the pro-every-war Murdoch press, whose multiple stories and editorials in the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal could have been written by Netanyahu's press office.
The upshot is that Schumer and Gillibrand have not made any commitment on the upcoming vote, and that they will have to balance the fears of a potential Iranian nuclear capability of conservative Netanyahu fans with the fears of another Mideast war of the majority of their constituents.
Schumer is the presumptive next leader of the Senate Democrats, and a longtime champion of Israel in the Senate, so the Murdoch pressure on him has been relentless.
Fred Dicker's column on July 19 had Al D'Amato, the sleazy guy who Schumer beat to get into the Senate, urging his erstwhile foe to vote against the agreement because, absurdly, "the security of our nation and the security of Israel are threatened."
A July 27 NYP editorial headlines that "Chuck Schumer should take a tip from Joe Lieberman on Iran," and includes this insight from LIEberman:
Chuck is the key. .. [If Schumer comes out against the deal, that] opens the way for a lot of other Democrats to oppose it as well. LIEberman's Likudnik bluster will hopefully have little effect on Schumer, because he does not need the votes of Likudniks and/or NYP Kool-Aid drinkers to get re-elected forever.But the pressure is on, and time is growing short, so I've done my little part to counter the Netanyahu-inspired BS Schumer and Gillibrand are reading every day by emailing both of them today.
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