An effort by Senate Democrats to put their prerogatives ahead of Middle East peace was defeated Wednesday night.
The war powers resolution failed 47-53, according to the Associated Press.
Although the vote was largely along party lines, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voted in favor of the resolution to tie President Donald Trump’s hands, while Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voted to let Trump wage war as he sees fit.
“Democrats would rather obstruct Donald Trump than obliterate Iran’s national nuclear program,” Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming said.
As noted by The Hill, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina framed his denigration of the resolution in colloquial terms.
“It sucks,” he said of the resolution. “It’s an unconstitutional shift of power from the commander in chief to the Congress.”
Referring to the 60-day limit given to a president under the post-Vietnam War Powers Resolution of 1973, Graham said invoking the act would be a mistake.
“You’ll set in motion a system where 535 people, after 60 days, become the commander in chief, grinding this nation’s ability to defend itself to a halt,” Graham said, according to NBC News.
“Every day, Iran grows weaker, and we grow stronger,” he said, according to Politico.
“Their ability to generate missile attacks is going down, not up. There will be pain before this is over. The likelihood of casualties is real. But the reason our men and women are over there is to protect us over here.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Trump “has the authority that he needs to conduct the activities, the operations that are currently underway there,” according to The Hill
“The president is acting in the best interests of the nation and our national security interests by ensuring that he’s protecting Americans and American bases and installations in the region,” he said.
Tehran’s islamofascist pigs have been at war with America for 46 years. They’ve carried out world wide terrorism, killed thousands of their own people, killed Americans, and subjugated women.
Obama and Biden sent planeloads of cash to the Iranian regime instead of simply obliterating them the way President Trump is doing right now.
The Left shields and defends Islam because they have a lot in common. They were perfectly fine with Obama’s disastrous Iranian nuke deal and sending Tehran pallets of cash, but hit one of their terrorist leaders and they have grand mal seizures.
Like Obama, Biden pandered to muzzie extremists.
The Dems have a lengthy history of siding with America’s enemies.
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