Update at the end
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House will vote on a War Powers Act on Thursday to limit the President’s actions in Iran. Democrats are sticking with their pro-Iran platform. They would limit the President’s ability to protect our military.
Ignoring the success of the President’s gambit, she’s moving to embarrass him if she can. She seems quite upset about Qassem Soleimani’s death.
“Members of Congress have serious, urgent concerns about the Administration’s decision to engage in hostilities against Iran and about its lack of strategy moving forward. Our concerns were not addressed by the President’s insufficient War Powers Act notification and by the Administration’s briefing today,” Pelosi said in a statement.
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The Democrats who came out of the briefing claim they didn’t see anything that warranted the death of Soleimani, the terrorist. They insist they need to be consulted, which, of course, isn’t true.
Barack Obama killed two American citizens with a drone without permission. Not a word was said about that at the time. He had American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki droned and two weeks later, he droned his American-born son and never asked for Congress’ permission.
The Democrats attend these meetings to bash the Republicans, in this case, it was Mike Pompeo and Mark Esper. They want to depict the Administration as chaotic and without a strategy.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer confirmed that Democrats were discussing additional measures beyond the war powers resolution.
“They’re certainly items that I think will be considered at some point in time, Hoyer said. The measures are backed by progressives (socialists/communists).
UPDATE
After we posted this article, Mike Lee and Rand Paul, the Libertarian-minded Republicans, came out of the same meeting insulted.
The briefing was conducted by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, CIA Director Gina Haspel and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley. Apparently Lee and Paul thought little of it.
“I find this insulting and demeaning to the office that each of the 100 senators in this building happens to hold,” Lee said about the briefing. “I find it insulting and demeaning to the Constitution of the United States.”
They plan to vote for the War Powers Act.
They were insulted because the officials didn’t want to debate it and would not share any of the sensitive areas of the intelligence.
If I am getting this right, their egos were hurt.
This will embolden Iran and damage the President. This must be why Democrats win so often.
MORE NEWS: @SenMikeLee and @RandPaul emerge from all-senators briefing to say they now support a Democratic plan for a new War Powers Resolution. Lee called the briefing “insulting” and worst he’s had from military officials in his 9 years here.
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) January 8, 2020
Well, I’ll be damned. It sure sounds like Mike Lee wasn’t being very honest. More like a damn liar. My guess he is salivating on taking power away from the President to conduct operations and strongly desires to eliminate the War Powers Act altogether and this is the first step. In other words he is MORE concerned about HIS own power in the Senate, and the country’s safety be damned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4UBopcUeeI
Jack sure puts it in perspective.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1215080118743379968
Would Mike Lee actually prefer we use the Constitutional Act of War against Iran. There is no doubt Iran has been on a war footing for decades. It is explicit in their calls for death to America and how they have the will to accomplish it.
If Iran commits a significant attack to warrant a response does that mean the Senator and the rest will vote on an Declaration of War resolution. If there is NO other alternative then, by default, we would have NO choice in the matter to declare such a war. What would that entail, only hitting specific targets of proportionality? I doubt the public would consider that sufficient. Rather, it would REQUIRE us to commit to a war on the scale of a major war. That would have to include a ground invasion, in other words, boots on the ground.
So, at this point in time is it better to strike a target that is a known terrorist leader and constrain Iran from that expertise or go to a full scale all out war with a country as a whole. We ‘say’ we aren’t against the Iranian people but a call to war puts us directly in conflict “with” those Iranian people, by necessity. To Mike Lee, this is NOT your Founding Fathers war. It is asymmetrical in the extreme. If not any of this then it means we keep on taking terrorist attacks to no end.
Indeed! He talks about the Constitution but must think “We The People” actually says “We The Corporations”. Time and again, no matter the context, the Corporation takes precedence over any other matters. The Government was “suppose to protect” the people in their “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness”, but if that conflicts with Corporate Profits then the Constitution is secondary.
Lee is a traitorous liar, look at his HB1 program.