COMMENTARY
by Jonathan S. Tobin
September 8, 2015

…We already know that President Obama has enough votes to sustain a veto of a motion of disapproval. Nevertheless, the various statements of prominent Democrats who have heretofore prided themselves on being supporters of Israel deserve scrutiny. As I noted last week, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker twisted himself into a pretzel with feats of illogic and cognitive dissonance in order to justify a vote for a deal that he admitted failed to achieve the goal of ending the Iranian nuclear threat. But as dismal as the performance was, it pales besides the histrionics of Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. The odds that the chairman of the Democratic National Committee would ever publicly challenge the president on an issue that he has labeled as his foreign policy legacy were slim and none. READ MORE