Timothy Birdnow

The Senate voted to implement the War Powers Act, with the recently deposed Bill Cassidy casting the deciding vote to demand the Trump Administration withdraw from Iran. Cassidy had previously opposed any pullout. (Goes to show he's just a petty douchbag who cares more about screwing Trump for not supporting him than about the good of the country.)

Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) Also voted for the measure. All three of these turncoats need to be primaried and removed from office.

Had Rand Paul just voted present the measure would have failed. Rand Paul is a fool, unable to differentiate a threat from any other policy.

Collins and Murkowski are just scumbags and idiots.

John Fetterman (D-Penn.), voted against it. Three Republicans, Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) were absent. I'm very disappointed with Tuberville;he is a good Senator and should not have missed this vote. Cornyn and Tillis were no surprise - they also are scumbag idiots.

Every serious political thinker knew Cassidy would flip as soon as he reached lame duck status, and he's going to remain a thorn in Trump's side until the next Congress. Ditto Cornyn. Tillis has been nothing but a thorn poking at the tender flesh all along and now that he's leaving Congress of his own volition he's going to really screw the American People. Next Year can't come soon enough.

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy justified it this way:

"Peace negotiations are stuck and so day after day after day grocery prices climb, gas prices climb.”

What kind of deal does he think we'll get if we remove all leverage? I mean, that is the stupidest thing a leader could say. We only have negotiations at all because of the threat of American power being exercised. Take that away and Iran will declare victory. We'll lose support from all our Gulf allies, and a number of others, who will realize American cannot protect them and will make a deal with Iran. I would add Murphy wasn't concerned when gas prices were higher than now under Joe Biden solely because of the Green movement and Biden's kowtowing to climate alarmism. Nor did he care about grocery prices back then.

He has zero alternative - just "must stop Trump".

One must ask, why are the Democrats and the fellow-traveler Republicans so hell-bent on ending this? If it is such a quagmire wouldn't that serve the Democratic interests? The American People would turn against the GOP and hand a landslide to the Democrats come November. And there is no way they are doing it out of principle and love of the American People. Covid and Green Energy and illegal immigration have shown the Democrats don't care so much about the public as about their political power. So they think ending this war will increase their political power. That means...

They know what Trump is doing is going to work. They've known it all along. They fear it because it will make Trump a war president, a VICTORIOUS war president. They fear that more than most things.

And certainly if we are not in a shooting match at the moment then it's not American lives they worry about. We aren't losing any right now. They should prefer the negotiations. But they complain about the negotiations and they complain about the military actions when those are ongoing. What they do not do is offer any constructive alternatives.

This measure will go to the House where it will be debated. Logically it will die there (we hope) but who knows? Mike Johnson should do what Schumer did with the impeachment of Mayorkas (Biden's Homeland Security Secretary); simply refuse to even allow it to come to the floor for a vote. I think he can do that. If not he's going to have to make it perfectly clear if any Republicans defect he's going to bring the Wrath of the Most High down on that person. This is too important.

The War Powers Act has never faced judicial scrutiny; no time like the present to settle that matter!

IF Tillis and Cassidy and the rest are so worried about all this why do they not start working on a declaration of war? That would solve any legal matters involving this. Naturally the Democrats wouldn't let it pass, which is why Trump didn't ask for a declaration. Also, it would bring Congress into the loop, and as we know from the Iraq War and other military ventures Congress cannot be trusted with this sort of information; they leak. Secrecy in war is absolutely vital.

Personally I wish Trump would not have paused the military operations against Iran. Iran is biding it's time, waiting for just this sort of reaction from the Quisling Congress. They know the elections are coming and all they have to do is hold on until them, with the GOP losing popularity over high gas prices every day. Democratic control of Congress means the end of any military action. And of course the War Powers Act could end it even sooner. They know this, which is why they keep stalling.

I wonder if Trump isn't waiting because of a technicality. I suspect he hopes to be able to say "the WPA no longer applies because there was too much time between hot actions". This way he'd have a justification to take it to SCOTUS right away. He doesn't want to argue the Act itself as unconstitutional (that may well not break his way) but the application of the Act. He may be looking for solid legal ground.

I don't know but time is not on our side here. We need this wrapped up soon so the economy can recover and the post-war boom will shatter the Democrats. Oh, and we will rid the world of a real danger to everyone, not just us.

To win a war you have to break the will of the enemy, make them FEEL defeated. The IRGC has yet to feel defeated, largely because we have yet to unleash the full might of our military on them. Until that happens they will jerk us around. There is no negotiated peace deal coming, at least not one Iran will honor. The only way that happens is if we destroy their infrastructure and bankrupt the whole country. I hate that it has to come to that but the Iranian theocracy set the rules of engagement that way. We have to play by their rules.

At any rate every Republican who voted with the Democrats needs to be punished in some way. Not sure how to do that to the retirees (willing or otherwise) but certainly that broad up in Alaska and the Maine-iac can be hurt through political pressure. But they must be punished one way or another. They require some squeezing.

If fools and children lead a nation that nation suffers. The Bible says that a nation gets the leadership it deserves, and that is why for so long we've had such horrible leadership. America got what it asked for. But we had enough righteous people in this country that God raised up a champion. Sadly he's fighting even against our erstwhile "friends". Rather like Nehemiah, who had to fight a lot of his own people to get the wall of Jerusalem rebuilt.

this is Man's work, and yet so many in Congress are silly children.

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