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Obama Says He's Ready to Take On 'Crazies' as Iran Vote Looms

• Bloomberg

So who are "the crazies?" Obama didn't say, specifically. A White House spokesman, Eric Schultz, didn't immediately respond to an inquiry.

Obama faces a Republican-led Congress set on blocking his agenda. Nothing new there. He's trying to round up support for a nuclear deal with Iran that even some in his own party oppose, led by Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat. Chances are Obama wasn't talking about Schumer, though.

Obama told the donors, who paid as much as $33,400 to attend the soiree at the home of Myra and Brian Greenspun, the publisher of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper, that members of his party "are not perfect" and also act irrationally at times.

"There are some folks in our party who sometimes are dogmatic," Obama said. "But Democrats govern. Democrats are willing to do things that are hard."

One guy who's pretty sure he's a crazy: Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, a conservative political magazine.

"We 'crazies' wear his scorn as a badge of honor,'" Kristol tweeted on Tuesday. Kristol opposes the deal to curb Iran's nuclear program.


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