Posted on 12/07/2011 8:54:53 AM PST by Just4Him
The Jerusalem Post reported
The Obama administration is urging US lawmakers to soften proposed sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank, Senator Mark Kirk said on Tuesday.
Kirk, a Republican, is the co-author along with Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of a proposal to penalize foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran’s central bank, the main conduit for its oil revenues.
The Senate approved the proposal last week 100-0 despite lobbying against it by Obama administration officials, who argued that threatening US allies might not be the best way to get cooperation in action against Iran.
A similar measure is pending in the House of Representatives; both chambers must agree on the same version before it can become law.
Kirk said on Tuesday that the administration had written to some lawmakers’ offices and “proposed what they describe as technical fixes” to the Kirk-Menendez amendment.
But Kirk complained: “They are not technical fixes at all. They are meant to undermine the amendment.” He and Menendez have written to fellow lawmakers as well, urging them to “stick with” the Senate-passed proposal, Kirk said at an event on Iran’s nuclear program, sponsored by the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank.
As I said yesterday, one of the genius’s around the Messiah suddenly realized that if Iran is attacked, gas prices could skyrocket, in an election year.
And that would be really bad for the obamunists.
soon we will be giving them foreign aid
At least Chamberlain had a back up plan.... (Churchill)
That wouldn’t surprise me at all.
At least Chamberlain had a back up plan.... (Churchill)
Obama continues his War on America.... he is a traitor in every regard.
My Christmas wish is that we elect a President in 2012 that has the testicular fortitude to have the INS force Obama to prove his citizenship or face deportation.
Obama administration officials, who argued that threatening US ****allies**** might not be the best way to get cooperation in action against Iran.
What I don’t get it.
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