In a strong indication of what seasoned Democrats must surely be thinking, Harry Reid announced his planned retirement at the end of his current term in office. He said he’d been contemplating retiring from the Senate for months and wasn’t bothered by his demotion to minority leader after Democrats lost the majority in November’s midterm elections.
However, the truth probably lies somewhere else. Because Reid, and many other Democrats, must surely sense that their party has been significantly harmed over the past six years, and the mid-term elections clearly demonstrated that voters are well fed up with most of them. So, it’s best to get out gracefully, before the 2016 Republican sweeping landslide.
What’s also interesting is that Reid made his announcement on the same day that Adam Kredo, on freebeacon.com wrote from Lausanne, Switzerland that, “The Obama administration is giving in to Iranian demands about the scope of its nuclear program as negotiators work to finalize a framework agreement in the coming days, according to sources familiar with the administration’s position in the negotiations.
“U.S. negotiators are said to have given up ground on demands that Iran be forced to disclose the full range of its nuclear activities at the outset of a nuclear deal, a concession experts say would gut the verification the Obama administration has vowed would stand as the crux of a deal with Iran.”
Furthermore, “Concern from sources familiar with U.S. concessions in the talks comes amid reports that Iran could be permitted to continue running nuclear centrifuges at an underground site once suspected of housing illicit activities.
“This type of concession would allow Iran to continue work related to its nuclear weapons program, even under the eye of international inspectors. If Iran removes inspectors—as it has in the past—it would be left with a nuclear infrastructure immune from a strike by Western forces.”
Therefore, the president has moved the U.S. closer to Iran while creating a wider gap in relations with Israel, something desired long before he was ever elected POTUS.
In that regard, at the same time Ari Yashar, Matt Wanderman report in israelnationalnews.com via Drudge: “In a development that has largely been missed by mainstream media, the Pentagon early last month quietly declassified a Department of Defense top-secret document detailing Israel's nuclear program, a highly covert topic that Israel has never formally announced to avoid a regional nuclear arms race, and which the US until now has respected by remaining silent.
“But by publishing the declassified document from 1987, the US reportedly breached the silent agreement to keep quiet on Israel's nuclear powers for the first time ever, detailing the nuclear program in great depth.
“The timing of the revelation is highly suspect, given that it came as tensions spiraled out of control between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama ahead of Netanyahu's March 3 address in Congress, in which he warned against the dangers of Iran's nuclear program and how the deal being formed on that program leaves the Islamic regime with nuclear breakout capabilities.”
The authors add further confirmation of the administration’s motives by nothing that, “Another highly suspicious aspect of the document is that while the Pentagon saw fit to declassify sections on Israel's sensitive nuclear program, it kept sections on Italy, France, West Germany and other NATO countries classified, with those sections blocked out in the document.”
In conclusion then, while the president’s shift in Mid-East policy may come as a surprise to many unaware of his Muslim tendencies, there’s really nothing shocking about it. And the only ones who presently ought to be embarrassed by their naiveté are the Jews in the U.S. who lined up in droves to vote for him.
And that brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife, and this blog’s first advertisement:
That's it for today folks.
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