My dad used to tell me an expression about the Communists he had had to deal with. He’d say, “they’d step on your foot deliberately, but then accuse you of kicking the bottom of their shoe”.
Via Breitbart:
Everyone involved seems to be trying to put the best face on it, but Barack Obama went so far as to suggest senior Democrats like Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who take a hard line on Iran, are doing so purely to appease their donors.
Obama said that as a former senator himself, he understood how outside forces — like special interests and donors — can influence senators to act, one of the senators recounted.