1) It calls for sanctions on a sovereign country. Sanctions are a prelude to war and hurt the citizens of the country more than the government of the country that’s being sanctioned.
2) It asserts the necessity of foreign aid commitments which I have voted against.
3) It contains an open-ended promise of military support.
4) It tends to broaden the conflict to other countries.
As I’ve pointed out many times in the past, Massie has made a career out of his meaningless, sanctimonious opposition to bills that pass in the House by margins of 400+ votes.
Good reasons to vote against it.
Took a bit of courage, too.
Maybe Massie should have been made the speaker.
Yet Massie ignores the legal matters of the resolution he opposes, which is that the resolution cannot dictate the things that Massie says he opposes. The resolution cannot impose sanctions, cannot command any foreign engagement and cannot authorize military support for another country; it is no more than a non-binding resolution supporting those ideas, each of which would require separate action by Congress.
Massie does not understand the legalities of different kinds of actions by Congress. Why is he in Congress.
“ It calls for sanctions on a sovereign country. ”
Which sovereign country?
Thank you for explanation.
Seems a reasonable point of view, but we do have a special relation with Israel. Have always had that. From the time of our independence from England.
A Jewish banker spent most of his wealth helping finance the Revolutionary war.
Fact.
Haym Salomon was a Polish-born Jewish businessman and political financial broker who assisted the Superintendent of Finance, English-born Robert Morris, as the prime financier of the rebel American side during the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain.
Massie has always been a Paultard. (I usually refer to Ron Paul acolytes as “Paulistinians” in order not to compare the mentally retarded to people with such ridiculous views of how the world works, but I wanted to prevent people from thinking that I was calling Massie a Palestinian, when he’s merely useful idiot for Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups.)