Kevin Drum makes a couple of great points — explaining why Charles Schumer made things a bit awkward by dissing the Iran deal when he did. The key lies in the timing of Schumer’s announcement.
Schumer waited “until Democratic support for the deal was nearly airtight,” Drum writes. At this point, Schumer would have to persuade virtually every undecided Dem to vote No in order to kill the deal.”
Drum goes on:
To me, this has the smell of someone who wants to oppose the deal, but doesn’t really want to kill it. Schumer will go through the motions when Congress reconvenes, but I suspect he won’t be trying all that hard to undermine support for a deal negotiated by his party’s president. Far from taking this as bad news, I’d say it’s a very good sign that the Iran deal will survive when it goes to Congress. …Drum,MoJo