Paul=expected...Mike Lee, a surprise to be. Coming out if the never-Trumper closet?
There is no end of tiny little people who think they are somebody in that accursed sh!thole, and Mike Lee and Rand Paul are two of worst.
In fact, I am utterly disgusted with everyone in Washington not named Trump, and I don’t see any further need to retain or replace any of them.
I understand Paul’s schtick. I’m a Kentuckian and agree with a lot of his oddball positions, but he crossed a line on this one. There is a pretty strong Christian presence in our state. I’m one of them. I like Ecclesiastes. There is a time for war and a time for peace. I don’t think Rand gets that. Not that we went to war, but anyone that understands the concept of negotiation and risk, understands that a president has to sometimes risk war or you let the other side walk all over us.
What the president did was prudent. Frankly, it reminded me of what happened to Yamamoto. It’s nice to have an adult in the White House. They seem to be a rare commodity in DC.
FOX News was still displaying handsome portraits of the dead terrorist leader three abreast across the TV screen yesterday evening. They may need extra time to assuage their grief.
I wonder if we are about to see gas prices below $2 soon.
Partial revealing of highly classified information. They were in a SCIF and discussed thx e briefing with the media. Prosecutable?
It was simply embarrassing, Lee totally unhinged.
Utah you can do better than NeverTrumpers Lee and Romney.
“...what, if anything, would trigger the need for the Administration to come back to congress for a declaration of war or the authorization of the use of military force?”
Having done these briefings MANY times myself, this is an entirely improper question for a member of Congress to ask of a briefer. The briefers were clearly from DoD and/or the Intelligence Community. That question is a matter of policy, NOT intelligence and is not the purview of the IC and those two assholes should know that.
Senators Paul and Lee, you make me want to puke! Who owns your votes?
Someone needs to send them a couple of turbans and robes. Their little rant yesterday did more to help the Mullahs then the Russians do. It was disgusting.
Dumb and AntiAmerican
It is also truly despicable for Paul and Lee to complain about the Administration briefers dealing in generalities and refusing to speculate about what Lee refers to as “hypotheticals.” Oh, golly, why might that be their behavior in a room filled with seditious Democrats?
Obviously, any classified details the Administration officials might have revealed during this briefing would have ended up being air by Blitzer or someone else at CNN before the briefing had ended. Both Senators Paul and Lee know this reality full well.
And Lee also well knows that any concession by anyone in the Administration about any single hypothetical tossed at them would require President Trump to seek congressional approval would immediately become just another Democrat/media narrative that would attempt to tie the Administration’s hands against taking any further unilateral action whatsoever as it relates to Iran.
Thanks David for spelling it out just one more time, but forgetting to apply the seditious moniker to some REPUBLICANS as well as democrats.
A grandstanding performance by a couple of Trump haters, that will be forgotten except on the day they hopefully face a primary election by someone a bit more comfortable with OUR PRESIDENT, and who can beat their pants off.
Go figure: two ideologues, neither of whom understands ideology. Mike Lee’s faux steam-out-the-ears interviews were shamelessness on parade.
Where do we get these numbnuts?
“They [the briefers] were asked repeatedly, what, if anything, would trigger the need for the Administration to come back to congress for a declaration of war or the authorization of the use of military force?”
Wait, I thought this was a military / intelligence briefing. Why would those briefers be prepared to opine upon constitutional law?
I don’t understand this reflexive bashing of Lee and Paul. What if, in fact, the DOD briefing was amateurish and vague and insufficient? Why should incompetence at the DOD get a pass?
Rand is at least a bit consistent, but still DEAD WRONG on this case. Rand got on Obama’s case because Rand believes that carry a blue passport (American) gives you the right to go to foreign countries and openly train, and teach others, for Jihad back in the US. And since his dad is still alive, there’s a bit of that too (think Lindsey Graham before and after McCain ‘left the Senate’).
Lee is just nuts. I guess his point is that if the leader of more terrorists than anyone else in the world has some symbolic government position, he should be allowed to continue running operations that include planting roadside bombs to kill Americans - perhaps unless we see him actually holding up a couple of TNT sticks, or something.
What neither of them seem to understand is that THEY are the reason we have to fight these irregular wars, as the terrorists know that we’ll play by the old rules (think WW2). Thankfully, Trump plays by different rules, the rules of the terrorists.
“Closet Never-Trumper?” Give me a break. Open Borders Mike Lee voted for Evan McWeirdo. Lee has ALWAYS been a Never-Trumper.
Isn’t Lee the senator who’s trying to get legislation passed to allow a zillion Indys into the US with H1B visas?
They should lose their committee jobs ,they’re a security risk
Mike Lee, and Mittens, we really need some Conservatives elected in Utah. Such a small population yet such huge jerks in the senate