Posted on 04/14/2015 8:14:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama’s proposal for the use of military force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is dead in the House, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared on Monday.
The California Republican said Obama’s draft authorization for the use of military force, or AUMF, could not win the 218 votes needed to pass the lower chamber, and suggested key GOP-led committees could draft an alternative.
“I do not see a path to 218 with what the president sent up because the world has become more dangerous since he laid out Yemen as the strategy of how to move forward,” McCarthy told reporters in his office. “This would weaken our ability to respond to our current situation.” Administration officials have held up the U.S.’s counterterrorism efforts in Yemen as a model for success in battling Islamic extremists, though ongoing fighting there prompted the U.S. to close the U.S. embassy and evacuate military personnel.
McCarthy’s declaration, which was unscripted and came during his first pen-and-pad with reporters as House majority leader, means it’s now unlikely that Obama’s war powers measure will even get a vote on the House floor.
If Congress doesn’t pass an AUMF, Obama will continue carrying out military airstrikes against ISIS extremists using an outdated authorization passed by Congress in 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Asked Monday about McCarthy’s remarks, White House press secretary John Earnest said he was surprised that lawmakers want to inject themselves into U.S. nuclear talks with Iran but won’t take up Obama’s AUMF request.
“[W]e see Congress eager to weigh in and advocate for the role that they should have that would prevent diplomacy, while at the same time you hear members of Congress who are unwilling to take any steps that would constrain the president's ability to wage war,”
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DOA describes it a lot better...
Any Obama military “strategy “ comes from a wealth of experience and knowledge of a community organizer and is suspect.
Obama cannot claim Yemen as a COMPLETE foreign policy success for his administration, because all personnel were safely evacuated from the country. No Americans were one was captured, raped, tortured and/or murdered by islamist animals. But I'm sure he intends to do better next time.
Oops!
How about “No Americans were captured...” etc.
Can any one here make sense of this gibberish?
I thought republicans were the “war mongers”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3279047/posts
ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities
ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector.
Well, that’s where the war effort should be focused then....
But are we going to invade Mexico?
I don’t know, I’m a wife and mom and not in the military but I would think whatever we would have done in WW II if the Nazi’s had started establishing camps right on the other side of our border. Or during the Cold war if there were documented military strongholds of Russians within 10 miles of our border.
If we had a real president he would be putting extreme pressure on the Mexican government to remove them, and would probably tell them if you don’t, we will take care of it now. But our TIC (Traitor in Chief) is probably thrilled to hear ISIS is right on our doorstep.
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