In a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation in America's best interest, Congress voted to tighten sanctions against Iran yesterday. The main thrust of the sanctions is to block any foreign investment in Iran. This is a very good thing.
It also reveals that Congress truly does understand the danger posed by Iran and its crazy president. If that is the case, then why is one party in Congress singularly dedicated to ignoring that threat most of the time? Pure politics. The Democrats are so blinded by their hatred of Bush that they're willing to risk damage to America simply to damage Bush and his policies.
So, why are they starting to tighten up now? The elections are coming, and the American people don't like partisan politics, so they have to moderate their stances at election time. And, they fully anticipate winning the White House in 2008. Practically speaking, whatever problems don't get resolved now (and thus can be blamed on Bush) will have to be addressed by the presumptive Democrat president (though you can bet any amount of money you'll still hear about things being Bush's fault years from now). After all, it wouldn't look good to have Bush fight through Democrat opposition to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, only to have the next Democrat president allow Iran to get nukes which then get used on us. No one could spin their way out of that.
There's my two cents.
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