Posted on 01/09/2020 5:09:15 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Paul=expected...Mike Lee, a surprise to be. Coming out if the never-Trumper closet?
There is no end of tiny little people who think they are somebody in that accursed sh!thole, and Mike Lee and Rand Paul are two of worst.
In fact, I am utterly disgusted with everyone in Washington not named Trump, and I don’t see any further need to retain or replace any of them.
I understand Paul’s schtick. I’m a Kentuckian and agree with a lot of his oddball positions, but he crossed a line on this one. There is a pretty strong Christian presence in our state. I’m one of them. I like Ecclesiastes. There is a time for war and a time for peace. I don’t think Rand gets that. Not that we went to war, but anyone that understands the concept of negotiation and risk, understands that a president has to sometimes risk war or you let the other side walk all over us.
What the president did was prudent. Frankly, it reminded me of what happened to Yamamoto. It’s nice to have an adult in the White House. They seem to be a rare commodity in DC.
“ Paul=expected...Mike Lee, a surprise to be. Coming out if the never-Trumper closet?”
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Yeh, happens every time. Just when Republicans have things going their way they shoot themselves in the dick.
FOX News was still displaying handsome portraits of the dead terrorist leader three abreast across the TV screen yesterday evening. They may need extra time to assuage their grief.
Lee has done a complete 180 since he got to the Senate.
One would think he may still be miffed that his brother didn’t get SCOTUS consideration. But the more time passes, the more it seems he’s been infected by Romney the same way Ryan was.
Very odd...…...and very disappointing.
I wonder if we are about to see gas prices below $2 soon.
Way to go, Utah. /s
“Lee has done a complete 180 since he got to the Senate.”
... Compromised?
Partial revealing of highly classified information. They were in a SCIF and discussed thx e briefing with the media. Prosecutable?
Rand Paul sometimes aggravates but he is consistent with his views. Lee is puzzling but he is most likely a closet never Trumper now showing his true colors.
It was simply embarrassing, Lee totally unhinged.
Utah you can do better than NeverTrumpers Lee and Romney.
“...what, if anything, would trigger the need for the Administration to come back to congress for a declaration of war or the authorization of the use of military force?”
Having done these briefings MANY times myself, this is an entirely improper question for a member of Congress to ask of a briefer. The briefers were clearly from DoD and/or the Intelligence Community. That question is a matter of policy, NOT intelligence and is not the purview of the IC and those two assholes should know that.
Senators Paul and Lee, you make me want to puke! Who owns your votes?
“Mike Lee, a surprise to be. Coming out if the never-Trumper closet?”
Well, what does he have in common with Jeff Flake, Mitt Romney, and Harry Reid? There is a common thread there. And it isn’t just TDS.
Absolutely agree
Lee is a Never Trump cheap shot artist. Never forget he did not vote for POTUS and preferred HIllary Crimminal and her SCOTUS to POTUS, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. He knows POTUS can not afford an intra GOP food fight as we get into the meat of 2020 campaign season and feels free to take shots at Trump.
Both Lee and Rand are libertarians. They both want minimal state intervention in the lives of citizens. They are against the FISA court, intelligence agencies spying, and foreign wars.
While they should not have been as outspoken and drama queens, in principle there is a lot we and president agreeds with them on. There are going to be presidents after Trump, can we really trust the next Obama like president to do the right thing? There does needs to be some kind of lease on the president’s ability to start a war.
Someone needs to send them a couple of turbans and robes. Their little rant yesterday did more to help the Mullahs then the Russians do. It was disgusting.
Dumb and AntiAmerican
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