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All But 2 GOP Senators Give Trump Blank Check in Venezuela

The Senate on Thursday voted down a measure requiring congressional approval for any military action by President Donald Trump against Venezuela.

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Mark Warner: I Can't Confidently Say The U.S. Isn't Going To War With Venezuela

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-- Forbes (@forbes.com) Nov 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM

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Nobody who signed on to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) evaded being branded as having scandalously given a president power he doesn't have and being mealy-mouthed about it.

This? The same.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-07 05:55 AM

Rand Paul, and some woman with blood coming out of her wherever, are the only two sane members of the Republican Senate.

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-07 12:25 PM

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#3 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-11-09 07:04 AM

What a country we've got. Just a few years ago we finished the "Forever Wars" and now Dummkopf Trumpf and his cronies and family want to make profits from involving us in another war. Don Junior is invested in a drone company in Florida, something is going on with contracts in the USN, and Felon Musk continues making obscene amounts of money hand over first with the Trumpf junta.

Earlier this year House Democrat Al Green (D-TX) introduced a bill to impeach Dummkopf Trumpf after he ordered the attacks on Iran, but the measure was killed by his fellow Democrats. Apparently 128 Democrats were not unhappy with the US attacking Iran.

From Politico, 24 June 2025:

"Most House Democrats joined with Republicans on Tuesday to quash an effort to impeach President Dummkopf Trumpf over his weekend Iran strikes.

Rep. Al Green's impeachment resolution was tabled on a 344-79 vote, with 128 Democrats joining all 216 Republicans to kill the measure.

Those included House Democratic leaders, who have been wary of pursuing new impeachments after two prior Trumpf impeachments failed during his first term. Still, dozens of Democrats voted to keep Green's resolution alive.

Green introduced the measure lambasting Trumpf for striking Iran without congressional approval Tuesday and used a fast-track process to force a quick vote. GOP leaders moved first with the motion to table.

Some Democrats, most prominently New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called for Trumpf's impeachment in the aftermath of the strike, though there's little appetite in the rest of the caucus for impeachment. Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar yanked a prior impeachment measure he sponsored last month before it even came up for a vote after facing fierce blowback in the caucus."

Now the US is getting ready to attack Venezuela.


#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-09 07:44 AM

All this measure would have done was make the GOP Congress do its lawful job.

The Constitution was always too much of a weight for these people. Thank God Trump came around to take the burden from them.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-09 08:36 AM

I expect all of MAGA to be fiercely anti-war when the bombs start falling on Venezuela.

Wouldn't want you people to be hypocrites, or anything.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-09 08:55 AM

Now the US is getting ready to attack Venezuela.

Or Nigeria. Apparently. Depends. On whether he can profit from it somehow.

Trump's guns-a-blazing' threat to Nigeria shocked key players, aides

President Trump's threat to go "guns-a-blazing" into Nigeria concerned U.S. military officials in Africa and surprised even those who had been pushing the issue.

www.washingtonpost.com

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-09 11:22 AM

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