Posted on 10/17/2019 6:39:19 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Remember those Republicans who supported Nancy Pelosi and betrayed the American voters with this vote. – I have very often been thoroughly disgusted with the behavior of spineless, disloyal Republicans in the U.S. Congress, but seldom as disgusted as I felt on Wednesday afternoon.
That was when we got news that 129 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives joined with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat caucus in a vote to condemn President Trump’s decision to pull U.S. military personnel out of harm’s way as the Turkish military invaded Northern Syria on Sunday. That decision involved about 50 U.S. military advisors who would have otherwise been trapped between the Turkish and Kurdish forces, and another 1,000 or so U.S. personnel who were already well away from the front.
This vote was a shameful act, and I’m frankly embarrassed to see the names of Texans like Kevin Brady, Dan Crenshaw and John Ratcliffe on the list of “yea” votes for this despicable, non-binding resolution. Here is why these were shameful votes: The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war on another country. If these posturing, blustering politicians truly feel so horrified by the President’s decision to keep our country’s military personnel safe, and so strongly about siding with the Kurdish forces – who, by the way, regularly make incursions into Turkey against U.S. advice – then they need to man-up and hold a vote on a declaration of war.
Doing what they did on Wednesday is simply political posturing designed to allow them to go tell their voters that they bravely defied the President in a vote that in reality does nothing but provide political support for the Democrat Party. It’s disgusting, and I had hoped that I would not see the three men listed above – whom I have held in high regard – engaging in this sort of political cowardice.
Most Americans have no regard at all for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is a despicable, brutish thug. But the centuries-old conflict between the Turks and the Kurds is every bit as unsolvable as all the myriad other centuries-old conflicts involving various peoples and religious factions in the Middle East. These conflicts existed long before the United States of America was born, and will persist long after the Democrats succeed in dividing the U.S. into two or more separate nations.
They are, in other words, not our problem, and if the last 28 years have taught us nothing else, they should have taught every American that neither our country nor any other nation on earth, no matter how well-intentioned or powerful, is capable of resolving them peacefully. All we are capable of doing is ensuring the ongoing killing takes place in a reorganized fashion.
Donald Trump was elected to the presidency in large part to get our military personnel out of the middle of never-ending conflicts like this one, and that is what he decided to do on Sunday. He inherited a set of quagmires from his four predecessors in office, holding a mandate from the voters to get our country out of them.
For members of congress, for warmonger John McCain disciples like Lindsey Graham, who are currently wringing their hands about the supposed “rebirth of ISIS,” the way to prevent that being a threat to America is to act on the other main reason why Donald Trump won the 2016 election and pass legislation designed to get control of our damn borders.
In other words, instead of going on Fox News and CNN to channel John McCain and lecture the President about “abandoning our allies,” Graham and Brady and Ratcliffe and Chrenshaw need to be going on those channels and others to pound the Democrats for abandoning the American people.
But that would take political will, something that is always in short supply among Republican members of congress.
Again, here is the link to the roll call on Wednesday’s show vote. Memorize those 129 Republican names, and if one of them represents your district, do something to let them know about your displeasure with yesterday’s abandonment of the American people. Because the 2016 election was a referendum on this very issue, and their side lost.
That is all.
Bump
With so much effort to fix the world, how come it's still so screwed up?
Blackman makes good arguments.
This non-binding, for the camera/MSM, vote was intended to embarrass the president and, as usual, repubs fell for it.
They all need replacement. Their names be to be out there EVERY day so people can get to know the traitors names.
Repubs like to virtue signal too.
Stop deluding yourself with this off-point analysis. It's about the graft - the skim off the taxpayers dollars being recirculated back to the greater DC metropolitan area. Stop looking for some other principle or explanation. There is none. It's the money folks. It's everyone getting his piece of the taxpayer funded action. Nothing more.
Where is the list of names of these traitor rhinos? They are pure scum and deserve to be voted out!
My soon to be former Congressman Jody Hice (GA-10th) voted Present.
Wow, I am so glad he showed up to work yesterday. I sent him a scathing email on how he was elected to be my voice and all I get if a gold star for showing up to work that day.
Jody Hice also LOVES H1-B Visas.
More of this nonsense, Mr. Blackman. Stop trying to make it about a difference of principle. There is no principle. It's about the DC gravy train.
That would be my analysis if this were a BINDING vote. On a non-biding vote like this one, it is just political posturing.
You should learn how to disagree without being insulting.
This tells me that there are a whole lot of quisling congress critters on the take and collecting lot’s of money in kickbacks and bribes from the Military Industrial Complex.
I want to know which politicians have been lining their pockets by bribes, donations, and fraudulent connections from foreign powers and corporations, especially RINOs
Send the 129-member delegation to Kentucky to inspect damage inflicted in the bombing attack broadcast by ABC.
Then, pack the rascals up and send them on a congressional junket to the border between Turkey and Syria.
/#FoolsInWonderland aka DC
That would be a dumb move considering how we are positioned to retake the house. This was a meaningless ‘feeling’ vote. Don’t cut your throat over it.
129 Republicans disgrace themselves.
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Situation normal for the GOP.
Where are the anti-war groups who used to be so vocal?
Let’s see how many, both sides, get $$$ from military linked donations .
Therein lies the key to this outrage
Send the 129-member delegation to Kentucky to inspect damage inflicted in the bombing attack broadcast by ABC.
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It wouldn’t change their minds. They are bought and paid for.
Retake the house? with what? 129 so called republicans that don’t support our President? Now that is really dumb!
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