Constitutionally, the War Powers Act should be repealed. Congress should put its neck on the line when we send our troops into harm’s way.
Look at Iraq.....congress voted to support Bush then turned around and opposed him. What bullshit.
The War Powers Act allows politicians to have it both ways.
Gaetz exposed himself as the flake he is
The choice isn’t between an all out land invasion of Iraq and doing nothing. These people are slimes.
I hope they strip him of his House Manager job for the Impeachment trial! Fast judgement for a stupid vote that he sided with Pelosi instead of our President!!
You jumped the shark, Gaetz. Stupid.
I don’t really have a problem with it. I don’t really care for it either.
Looks like the President has a problem with it though. Oops.
It’s amazing how many Republicans there are that go out of their way to make absolute fools of themselves.
To be honest, I can’t imagine why anyone would vote with the Democrat Party on anything at all, Matt.
If Obama was still president and a GOP-controlled House passed a resolution like this to limit his authority to launch a military campaign in some Third World dump, the author of this piece would be fawning all over Gaetz and his fellow Republicans.
Theater. If Trump was going to march on Tehran he would go to congress. Its what the law and constitution, not to mention practical necessity, require. So the silly resolution is just grandstanding.
Hero to zero, another mcpain worshipper.
Gaetz is just trying to firm up his conservative maverick bonafides. I’m starting to see a lot of all hat no cattle Gowdy in Geatz. Very disappointing.
It was an incredible misstep. He gave Pelosi a victory and he is going to have a hard time living it down.
Matt Gaetz was 100% correct to vote the way he did and stand up for what he believes in.
Congress need to reassert its authority on sending troops to war and if Trump were smart he’d assist Congress in that effort.
Yep - tweeted that he spits on the military that realizes the importance of fighting evil to protect Americans.
Flake has relatives...
Matt Gaetz’s Florida panhandle district is strongly conservative and loaded with both active and retired military. My guess is that there is considerable sentiment in the district against another Mid East war and that it is the reason for Gaetz’s vote.
“Gaetz, appearing on Fox News with Tucker Carlson”
Was this within the last couple of days, or early in the week when the vote was taken. As far as I know, Gaetz hasn’t appeared on Fox since the vote. I could be wrong as I don’t watch everything, but before this he was EVERYWHERE sucking up face time, glorying in his celebrity.