For the second time in a month, the U.S. Senate has blocked an effort to move a draft War Powers Resolution limiting the use of force against drug-dealers who kill tens of thousands of Americans annually out of the jurisdiction of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The final vote was 49-51. Perennial favorites, Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Rand Paul (R-KY) crossed over to vote with the Democrats, because of course they did.
El Senado de los Estados Unidos acaba de rechazar, por segunda vez, invocar la War Powers Resolution para limitar los ataques de la administración Trump contra narcotraficantes en el Caribe y el Pacífico.
La primera vez que se votó fue el 8 de octubre. pic.twitter.com/Ucia30rSHv
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“Congress should not cede its power to any president,” whinged resolution sponsor Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday, “If colleagues believe that a war against the narco-traffickers in the ocean or a war against Venezuela is a good idea, then put an [authorization of military force] on the table and debate and vote it, but don’t just hand the power over to an executive. That runs against everything that this nation was founded on.”
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Kaine, being a Democrat, doesn’t have a very clear idea of our founding principles, which is not a shock considering his porcine grifting. Under President George Washington, the newly created U.S. Army, along with volunteers, was dispatched to Indiana to drive out the Miamis. No Congressional action was taken. During the first quarter of the 20th century, we invaded Mexico, chased Pancho Villa, and invaded and occupied Nicaragua and Haiti without anything resembling a Congressional mandate.
Let’s face it. This was just grandstanding. Senate Republicans, other than Murkowski, Paul, and possibly Collins, aren’t going to vote to play in Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James Risch’s (R-ID) sandbox, and he is not going to move the War Powers Resolution on Venezuela to the floor because he’s a normal guy who, like about 70 percent of Americans, doesn’t support drug dealers. Even if by some miracle it makes it to the floor, it won’t pass. It certainly won’t pass in the House. More importantly, it will never get the two-thirds vote necessary to override President Trump’s veto. The sole purpose of this bill is to create a political line of attack against Trump.
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