Posted on 01/08/2020 7:10:17 PM PST by Magnatron
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee declared in a heated press conference Wednesday afternoon that national security officials had just delivered the "worst military briefing" he had ever seen on Capitol Hill, even claiming that one official had warned during the "lame" and "insane" meeting that Congress shouldn't debate whether additional military action against Iran would be appropriate.
Democrats piled on, with Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerald E. Connolly calling the briefing "sophomoric and utterly unconvincing." Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, for her part, asserted that she has been "stricken with PTSD" due to recent developments and condemned President Trump's new sanctions against Iran as "economic warfare." (Omar and her family fled war-torn Somalia and spent years in a refugee camp.) Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., called her comments "a disgrace and offensive to our nations veterans who really do have PTSD," prompting Omar to respond, "I survived war as a child and deal with post-traumatic stress disordermuch like many who have served or lived through war. Its shameful that you as a member of Congress would erase the PTSD of survivors."
Lee made clear that his response was directed primarily at the classified briefing for lawmakers on the Iran situation and not the White House's Iran policy generally -- but, he said, the slapdash sit-down would have consequences.
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The Jeff Flake of Utah
Precisely. It’s Senator Lee of Silicon Valley Central. There are those who think Lee should be investigated for receiving and abetting illegal campaign contributions.
Can’t these RINOS kep their MOUTHS SHUT???
Lee faked being a Conservative until Trump came along - he now suffers TDS with the most pathetic of them...he’s even worse than Romney.
I like Rand Paul, but he gets this crazy part from his dad.
I used to listen to Ron talk and found myself nodding in agreement, but the longer he prattled on, you would start to see those eyeballs spin. Then you begin to realize, this dudes bats**t nuts.
Sometimes I hear this creeping into Rands monologues as well...
H-1B Lee is a traitor.
The partisan rhetoric coming from pantywaists in both the Dem and GOP is becoming so duplicitous and so depraved, we may indeed be facing a civil war.
Think about it.
Obama used drones to “assassinate” 27 hostiles, and if memory serves correctly, one of those 27 was a US citizen. Yet we heard not a peep from anyone from the Dems or the GOP about Obama’s being an out of control war monger, who needed his War Powers limited by Congress. Obama went on to destroy a whole nation needlessly, without declaration of war from Congress: Libya, temporarily converting NATO into an imperialist power.There was not a peep. This was done because Libya was in the way of Obama’s Arab Spring where the Muslim Brotherhood was to rise up and bring a utopian society to the Levant and North Africa. Gadaffi pounded the MB mercilessly because they were recruiting jihadhis in East Libya for Iraq. Obama offed Gadaffi and destroyed a complete country on the basis of his personal ideology, a tyrants wages,and nary a peep from Congress.
Particularly unnerving was this GOP RINO and Dem silence because Obama also destroyed one of the greatest hydrology projects in the history of mankind, thereby starving vast sweeps of the Southern Desert from the lack of water , and bringing an end to the greening and food production of Libya’s Southern desert.NARY A PEEP from the swamp.
Now President Trump is effectively converting appeasement of Iran into deterrence , splatted one very bad foreign general who had no legitimate business in Iraq, splatted him all over a concrete wall at Baghdad airport, and the Dems and RINOS are screaming “FOUL!”.
I don’t know how these leftist freaks and RINOS will be able to handle President Trump’s landslide electoral victory in November. They wiull have to face outright violence from the public to shut them the F**K UP?
Someone in the Unfee Press now needs to call pantywaists like Lee and the perpetual mugging victim from Kentucky, Rand Paul, on their duplicity and caterwauling.
President Trump is doing an excellent job at keeping secret info secure and thereby protecting our military and other US personnel from the outright savagery of leaks which the Iranian Intel services are awaiting so they can do the dirty.The President is having none of it.
This has got Milt Romley, aka Pierre Delecto written all over it.
Andrew McCarthy: War Powers Resolution vote against Trump is pointless He has right to strike bad guys
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/war-powers-resolution-vote-trump-andrew-mccarthy
Andrew McCarthy: War Powers Resolution vote against Trump is pointless He has right to strike bad guys
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/war-powers-resolution-vote-trump-andrew-mccarthy
Isn’t Lee the one pushing bills in Congress to add hundreds of thousands of “green cards” for folks from India???
Boy the corrupt Indian corporate interests have apparently invested quite a bit in his state and in him.
I don’t think that’s entirely it for Romney. I’ve long suspected Romney to be connected to a certain agency that is part of the deep state.
I missed this good news; do you happen to have a link handy?
Afraid not. He was asked a question about this bill late last year on his way to Marine One during the press gaggle he always conducts. He was asked by a reporter whether or not he intends to veto the bill. President Trump responded that he probably won’t have to because he doesn’t think the bill will ever reach his desk.
Are you thinking of this?
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019, or S.386, which is currently before the US Senate, is unlikely to clear the upper chamber, said Stephen Miller, architect of many of President Trumps controversial immigration policies.
The White House senior policy adviser was responding a question by FOX Business anchor Lou Dobbs Tuesday.
The right-wing anchor asked Miller: In the Senate, there is a Senate Bill 386 the rights for legal immigrants legislation that would double the H-1B visas and in so doing it most of those visas [will go to citizens of] China and to India. And its also sponsored by [Utah Republican Sen.] Mike Lee and signed on to by a host of otherwise, generally reasonable people, previously. Is the president going to veto the damn thing?
Miller responded: Well, I dont think that bill, as currently written, is going to be passing the Senate anytime soon.
He continued: The administration has made clear that our view on [H-1B visas] is that you cannot displace or replace American workers. And the president has taken unprecedented action in the immigration space to do exactly that, including most recently with the public charge regulation to keep newcomers from taking advantage of our welfare system.
Europe's reward for the NATO bombing of Libya was the influx of the foreign workers which fled the country at great risk, across the Mediterranean. Gaddafi warned the West, he knew he was the only one stopping an illegal immigrant flood into Europe. NATO claims they were preventing a human catastrophe actually created one. Obama used NATO as the stick with which to destroy an independent, flourishing country, and steal it's treasury.
CAn you imnagine President trumps military staff sharing sensitive Intel with the Senate Intel Committee. Mike Lee knows it would be leaked anonymously within 20 minutes for the Iranians to have, and HE’S COMPLAINING ABOUT IT?
Mike Lee must be down in the polls.
And they want to redirict normal presidential power as Commander in Chief, find out what will trigger a war so they can leak THAT to the press, and give Iran a strategic advantage?
President Trump knows exactly what he is doing. So does Mike Lee. So does Rand Paul. And both of these later idiots need to be called on it.I hope they both receive an invitation to the White House for a personal “briefing.” That’s likely what this is all about.
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