Trump’s Iran Strike, Congress’s Silence
Who’s Really Running Things?
Trump’s Iran Strike, Congress’s Silence
Who’s Really Running Things?
Once again, Donald Trump faces impeachment calls but this time not for his tweets, or shady deals, but for ordering military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program without congressional approval.
The Constitution doesn’t give him that power. The War Powers Resolution, passed in 1973, was explicitly designed to prevent unilateral war-making. Yet Congress, packed with folk who claim to be defenders of democracy, sat on their hands while Trump hit Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
Sure, 79 Democrats voted to move forward with an impeachment resolution led by Rep. Al Green, but nearly 300 Democrats, including top leaders like Pelosi and Jeffries, blocked the effort and sided with Republicans to quash it.
These same Democrats have spent years warning that Trump is a dictator, a threat to democracy, at least when fundraising. Yet when it comes to war, when the stakes involve missiles, contracts, and power centers benefiting from militarization, they suddenly become the most hawkish crowd in the room.
They threatened impeachments over subpoenas and phone calls, but when Trump literally starts bombing a sovereign nation without a vote, congressional Democrats start finding lots of common ground with the Republicans.