Is Sarah Palin reading The Cable?
Today on her Facebook page, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin linked to our post on Congressional pressure over Iran sanctions legislation. Palin said: So the issue is not when the so-called sanctions will come (President Obama promised them in "weeks" today) but whether they will even "nibble." And while the Obama administration was more than ...
Today on her Facebook page, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin linked to our post on Congressional pressure over Iran sanctions legislation.
Palin said:
So the issue is not when the so-called sanctions will come (President Obama promised them in "weeks" today) but whether they will even "nibble." And while the Obama administration was more than willing to use every parliamentary trick in the book to ram its government health care takeover through Congress, conversely, it has worked hard to stall bipartisan efforts to pass the Iran Sanctions Act.
Now that President Obama has announced he wants the new UN Iran sanctions "within weeks," it may be a moot point. Congress is likely to take at least that long to get a conference together, much less pass the result of the conference through both chambers again.
Nevertheless, glad to know The Cable is making it all the way to Alaska! (or at least to Palin’s Washington foreign policy advisors).
Josh Rogin is a former staff writer at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshrogin
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