Posted on 01/31/2019 10:04:39 AM PST by Be Careful
Frustrated Republicans say it’s time for the Senate to reclaim more power over foreign policy and are planning to move a measure Thursday that would be a stunning rebuke to a president of their own party.
GOP lawmakers are deeply concerned over President Trump’s reluctance to listen to his senior military and intelligence advisers, fearing it could erode national security. They say the Senate has lost too much of its constitutional power over shaping the nation’s foreign policy and argue that it’s time to begin clawing some of it back.
“Power over foreign policy has shifted to the executive branch over the last 30 years. Many of us in the Senate want to start taking it back,” said a Republican senator closely allied with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
They plan to send Trump a stern admonishment by voting Thursday afternoon on an amendment sponsored by McConnell warning “the precipitous withdrawal” of U.S. forces from Syria and Afghanistan “could put at risk hard-won gains and United States national security.”
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Mitch can sure move fast when he wants to.
Well Mitch, you had two Fn years....
Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!!!
Right now, you are in the way!!!!
“could put at risk hard-won gains and United States national security.”
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Says the same group of clowns who see no security problems with our southern border.
All these people should go on record saying they want endless wars all over the world.
I can’t wait to see Our President’s response to this!
A stern admonishment. And if that doesn’t work? The COMFY CHAIR!!!!!!
I agree. The arms manufacturers must have jabbed McConnell.
So we’ll end up funding endless wars while the GOPe smirks.
McConnell proving once again the GOP is malignant force in American politics. And Never Trumpism proves it is not reformable. Time for an America First 3rd Party.
The same asses that enabled and empowered Obama’s evil agenda. Go figure.
Trump has the most substantially successful two years of foreign policy since Reagan and his coattails under Bush1. And these know nothings in Washington rebuke. Wonderful.
Because above all else, they owe it to their corporate donors.
Doom and gloom.
How many years do we have to be in Afghanistan?
McConnells source of power is in his ability to raise HUGE amounts of cash, which he then shares with candidates who will kiss his ring. He builds a cadre of those who will follow his lead. The same happens for Pelosi. It is the source of power in DC. If they go off the range, they are cut off from the $$$$$.
“McConnell warning “the precipitous withdrawal” of U.S. forces from Syria and Afghanistan “could put at risk hard-won gains and United States national security.””
What precipitous withdrawal? I believe we still have forces in those countries, right? We are taking like forever to withdraw from those hellholes. Trump has been extremely patient.
Then the Senate should vote to declare war on any country that the US has troops in.
Otherwise STFU!
During the fake but accurate Buzzfeed debacle a few weeks ago I saw Barbara Boxer on some show. She was screeching about how terrible President Trump is.
One of her screeches was how dare he talk to that tyrant in North Korea. Why would you talk to such an evill dictator.
Well, he is the first one to sit down and try to work something out with NK in many years, if ever. Anyone who tried before just asked NK how much money we should give them so they will be nice to us.
President Trump never fired a shot and never gave them a nickel yet they settled down and stopped shooting off missiles. Weird how that works.
I think the biggest problem is that nobody has seen a real leader in the White House in many many years and they don’t know what to think of it. They are used to apologizing and leading from behind.
So they sit on their hands during 8 years of Obama and now want to do it with a GOP President. Sounds to me like a Romney plan.
“They say the Senate has lost too much of its constitutional power over shaping the nation’s foreign policy“
They have none other than to advise and consent to Treaties. It’s right there in the Constitution. Maybe they should read it sometime.
L
They are so unaware.
[[One of her screeches was how dare he talk to that tyrant in North Korea. Why would you talk to such an evill dictator.]]
Wait a min ute- didn’t obama actually allow iran to get nearly a trillion dollars? Iran isn’t an ‘
evil dictator’?
Wow. Trump attempts to end the US involvement in a tiny corner of the world and end one deep-state inspired war, and McConnell goes apeshit?
Is this fake news?
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