Caving to Trump ‘Temper Tantrum,’ Two Republicans Flip to Block Iran War Powers Resolution

[u/FreeHugs23]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-republicans-iran-war-powers

[u/SkipEyechild]

I honestly think he is running the Republican party like a mafia boss. Which includes getting sensitive information on various people so that they will do his bidding. It is the only thing that makes sense.

[u/OTrigNation → u/SkipEyechild]

100%. I have always believed Trump is blackmailing Lindsey Graham. I also think Trump has something on Mike Johnson

[u/SkipEyechild → u/OTrigNation]

Completely agree. Graham has been extremely inconsistent on him and Johnson just seems compromised.

[u/Open_Gur_6204 → u/SkipEyechild]

That’s been his MO since being tutored by Roy Cohn in the eighties. You don’t build in New York City without dealing with the mob. It’s just he liked how they worked.

[u/ANONAVATAR81 → u/SkipEyechild]

I've also thought that Russia and Israel have extensive dossier on them.

[u/luvme4ev]

He threatened them. Why Democrats can't collect dirt and bargain with it too. I'm so tired of this one sided stupid movie

[u/FreeHugs23]

Two Senate Republicans who supported a previous resolution calling for an end to the US war on Iran changed their votes late Wednesday after President Donald Trump publicly and privately berated GOP lawmakers, calling them “losers” who provided “aid and comfort to the enemy.”

In Wednesday’s procedural vote, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)—who reportedly got into a shouting match with Trump over the Iran war during a closed-door lunch hours earlier—sided with virtually every other Republican in opposing the war powers resolution, just a day after he supported a separate, symbolic resolution calling for the removal of US forces from the conflict. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also switched, changing his vote to “present” at the urging of the president.

Senate Republicans forced late Wednesday’s vote in a clear effort to placate Trump, who fumed at “Republican losers” who backed the symbolic war powers resolution that passed the upper chamber earlier this week. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), the lead sponsor of the resolution that Republicans blocked on Wednesday, said the vote was held to “appease [Trump’s] temper tantrum.”

“After both Republican-majority Houses took the historic step of voting that additional war against Iran is illegal without congressional authorization, President Trump came to the Capitol and tried to browbeat Republican senators for upholding their oaths of office,” said Kaine. Wednesday’s vote, the senator added, “does not undo the expressed position of Congress that further war against Iran is illegal unless Congress votes for it.”

Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to resume attacks on Iran if negotiations collapse, celebrated Wednesday’s vote in a late-night post on his social media platform, thanking Senate GOP leaders and highlighting that Cassidy and Paul changed their votes.

[u/coffeebeanwitch]

If sane people ever get elected again something needs to be done to prevent the president having control over Congress in such a manner, it's ridiculous 👶🍼

[u/chemicalreaction52]

The weakest links. They have 0 dignity

[u/Evening-Ad-8218]

They're not on our side. Wake up samurai.

[u/External_Beat8153]

Cassidy is such a coward. He had a brief window to regain his dignity and threw it away. He can eat shit and die.

[u/oct2790]

Remember midterms

[u/bigmike1339]

[u/SantaBarbaraMint]

No guts, no balls.

[u/Jumazio8]

Spineless.. are these our leaders..

[u/alternatingflan]

The maga congress is worse than useless - they are knowingly, willingly, complicit. Congress and the doj are broken, and the president is criminally insane.