Posted on 10/17/2019 11:36:14 AM PDT by RummyChick
Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he wants 'something even stronger' in the Senate than the House's resolution formally opposing Donald Trump's troop withdrawal from northern Syria last week.
The Senate Majority Leader said he was 'encouraged' by the House, including 129 Republican members, voting to condemn the president's highly contested decision.
'I believe it's important that we make a strong forward-looking strategic statement. For that reason my preference would be for something even stronger than the resolution that the House passed yesterday which has some serious weaknesses,' McConnell said from the Senate floor Thursday.
The vote Wednesday where more than a hundred Republicans broke ranks with the president showed the overwhelming bipartisan opposition to Trump's decision to remove troops from a region as Turkey took military action against Kurdish forces in Syria.
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Mitch, do not let this issue distract you from your number one goal, which is to confirm as many new judges as you can before time runs out. Keep your eye on the ball!
Kurds claim Turkey are using banned weapons such as NAPALM and white phosphorus as Erdogan warns nobody including the US can stop his incursion into Syria
Everyone I know would be happy for all our servicemen to come home now.
These people MUST know how far out of step they are with the voters on this. They simply DO NOT CARE!
Wouldn’t it be something to see these RepublicANTS get this worked up and animated over our porous borders?
There are no ranks.
Only sick, evil people (or paid off politicians) want an American foreign policy that 1) opens up our borders to the world’s poor and, 2) wants perpetual war.
As you seriously suggesting that members of Congress actually adhere to their Oath of Office and their Constitutional Duties????
What a novel concept!
McConnell is a day late and a dollar short.
Article I, Section 8
Look it up, Mitch.
Boy, Washington DC is a sorry excuse for a capital right now.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t we talking about PDJT withdrawing dozensnot thousandsof US soldiers from Syria?
The only time the azzhats can do anything is to stick it to Trump, their own party’s President.
They don’t EVER lift a finger to stand by him-—PUKES!!!
I guess I’m in the minority here but it seems to me that Mitch is setting a bait trap.
Did he announce this BEFORE or AFTER he learned of Pence’s agreement with Syria? I would think that he would have been informed BEFORE the public was.
Morons!
What he did worked - and any opposition by Congress is mooted.
Useless virtue signaling by timid Republcans.
The TURTLE NEEDS TO GO!!! His phone lines and email need to be overloaded!!
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