I only have one remark to make about the Congress’s overriding of President Obama’s veto of the JASTA bill, the bill that would allow civil suits against Saudi Arabia to proceed for the attacks on September 11, 2001. I think it reflects the president’s characteristic distaste for retail politics. If the White House had gotten in there and lobbied the Congress for changes with the president making direct, one-on-one personal appeals to individual senators, it probably wouldn’t have turned out so embarrassingly and it might have resulted in a better outcome.
Yeah, let’s not blame the adult men and women who cast the vote, let’s blame the guy who couldn’t stop them.