Posted on 06/24/2025 9:17:02 AM PDT by DFG
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ongoing hostilities in the Middle East raised tensions in the nation's capital as well, with frustrated legislators who fail to meet their responsibilities on a daily basis reminded everyone that launching military actions was their responsibility.
Lawmakers had given pushback against President Donald Trump over the last two weeks as he raised the temperature of his rhetoric regarding Israel and Iran, telling the president and anyone else who would listen that officially starting wars was their job, even though they don't do their job.
"Declaring war is our job!" said one congressman. "We haven't really been holding anyone to that for the last half-century or more, but still, it's our job. Along with protecting the border, keeping the economy in good shape, and bringing federal spending under control. But we don't really do any of that either, we kinda just talk about it a lot. In front of cameras, preferably."
Other members of Congress were just as adamant that declaring war fell under the umbrella of things Congress is responsible for doing, but never does. "It's important to understand who has the power to declare war," said another congressman. "Under the War Powers Resolution, it is made crystal clear that part of the job we have that we don't do is declaring war against foreign entities. So, if the president wants war declared, he can just add it to the things he asks us to do that we don't do."
At publishing time, Congress vowed to draft a strongly worded letter warning President Trump that they may hold hearings filled with stern soundbites if he continued to overstep his bounds.
Donald Trump -— doing jobs America’s Congressmen just won’t do. (typed in my best Bush Jr voice)
When was war declared on Nam...All my cousins and a few buddies were there.
The Bee hitting it out of the park again.
The most ironic thing about the “war power” Rand Paul and others claim Congress possesses is that Congress could declare war, and the President as CINC could just say, “Ummm, nope. Not gonna do it.” And there wouldn’t be anything Congress could do.
Eisenhower had a couple hundred in Nam. JFK had a few thousand. LBJ escalated to 500,000 in 1967 and then had the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, including me.
Reagan invaded Grenada with no Congressional action.
Bush 1 in Africa & Asia, Clinton in SE Europe, Bush II, Obama, Trump 1, Biden....they managed worldwid military efforts.
Problems with Congress
1. Congress is slow, lazy, interested in irrelevant addons.
2. We elect to Congress, candidates who want to be liked.
3. Congress, and especially Congress staff, want to be the first to leak to the media and thus gain favor with the media.
We still never declared war on N Korea.
My Dads gravestone says he served in a “ police action”
Every congresscritter who speaks against Trump’s decision needs to have their Ukraine funding votes exposed.
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Congress has several jobs to fulfill but that doesn’t mean they are accomplishing all their tasks successfully.
Left to do the job of declaring war, the final declaration would probably total about 2,000 pages and would have to be passed before anyone even read it or knew what it said, a la Pelosi.
Re: Point no. 3:
They might get around to it after their gay sex sessions in the Senate hearing rooms.
Who do you think these sessions are with?
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