Posted on 06/22/2025 8:34:51 AM PDT by CaptainK
Democrat politicians reached screeching levels of hypocrisy over Donald Trump's decision to act rather than wait for an Iranian nuclear weapon deployment. Chuck Schumer demanded action from Congress, as did Hakeem Jeffries. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led calls for impeachment. Practically every Democrat on Capitol Hill -- with the notable exception of John Fetterman -- rushed to promote their "authoritarian" narrative about Trump.
All of this venting reveals very short memories on the port side of Capitol Hill. Fourteen years ago, they couldn't get enough of presidential strikes on a nation in the very same region. Remember Hillary Clinton's chortling over the fall of Moammar Qaddafi and the role she and Barack Obama played in it? "We came, we saw, he died," she raved to Leslie Stahl after a joint US-EU bombing campaign decapitated Qaddafi's regime, and left a failed state in its wake.
In March 2011, Obama ordered a series of military strikes on regime targets in Libya, not because of a clear and present danger to US security or assets, but because of a "responsibility to protect" doctrine promoted by Samantha Power. The Qaddafi regime was brutally suppressing dissent at the time, as Qaddafi had done for decades, but Qaddafi had also cooperated with the West on nuclear non-proliferation. Nevertheless, Obama and the Left wanted Qaddafi gone, and without going to Congress conducted military attacks with the express purpose of collapsing his regime in favor of the rebels in and around Benghazi -- a bitter irony, in the end.
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democrats are nothing but hypocrites.
Pretty much the equivalent of GWB's "Mission Accomplished" victory lap for which he received a lot of negative media attention.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
BLAH BLAH BLAH
They need to be beat over the head with this, over and over again.
C’mon Democrats, start another impeachment process. You know you want to...
“We came, we saw, he died,”
That nasty cackle was the worst part of that.....what an absolutely evil woman
If the demonrats win the House in 2026, they WILL impeach Trump.
If they win the Senate as well, they will will convict him.
They’ll never have enough to convict, without having 10 Republicans voting to convict. And that ain’t gonna happen.
The needed a safe place to pass arms on to their ISIL buddies. That came back to bite them in the ass but the media lit them skate.
Putting the immediate situation aside, both Dems and Republicans are hypocrites on this issue. Republicans usually defer to the executive, so they aren’t as bad as the Dems, but they still are. The Dems position purely depends on whether a Democrat is the president. There needs to be a better system in place. There should be some guardrails around a president triggering a war. But taking military action should not be a nationally staged opportunity to score political points.
All of this venting reveals very short memories “
It has nothing to do with their memories. It is the anti Trump reflex. If Traitor Joe did this (as if) they would be hailing it as great and decisive move by the President.
Trump needs to unleash holy hell on these scumbags at home who are relentlessly out to get him, these very people are dirty and need to be brought out, exposed, charged and convicted.
“If they win the Senate as well, they will will convict him.”
There’s no way they get to 67 votes to impeach even if they squeak out a Senate majority.
“taking military action should not be a nationally staged opportunity to score political points”
Lol.
Taking military action to score political points was routine in ancient Greece, Rome, most of Europe and of course the US throughout the many centuries since then.
I am not a fan of the word “should” in any context—but this comment is fighting history itself.
“taking military action should not be a nationally staged opportunity to score political points”
Lol.
Taking military action to score political points was routine in ancient Greece, Rome, most of Europe and of course the US throughout the many centuries since then.
I am not a fan of the word “should” in any context—but this comment is fighting history itself.
They can impeach President Trump for the third time.
Yawn.
The is only hypocrisy if you believe it and live by it. There is no evidence that the GOP has ever cared about limited Constitutional powers from a President or any restraint related to powers of War.
Fraud Paul nor the GOP ever impeached Obama or attempted to limit such action.
Oh, they’re going to.
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