{"id":185670,"date":"2014-09-09T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/09\/f-me-i-agree-with-mitch-mcconnel\/"},"modified":"2014-09-09T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:01:00","slug":"f-me-i-agree-with-mitch-mcconnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/09\/f-me-i-agree-with-mitch-mcconnel\/","title":{"rendered":"F%$# Me, I Agree With Mitch McConnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, his motives are suspect, but when he <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.talkingpointsmemo.com\/t\/discussion-mcconnell-to-obama-seek-approval-from-congress-on-action-against-isis\/9935\/10\">calls for Congressional approval for the new war in Iraq<\/a>, he&#8217;s right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday that President Barack Obama should seek congressional approval for the U.S. strategy on ISIS.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;The view of myself and most of my members is the president should be seeking congressional approval, period, for whatever he decides to do because that&#8217;s the way you hear from those of us who represent everyone in the country,&#8221; the Kentucky Republican said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">McConnell stressed that Obama must come up with a plan and present it to Congress. He signaled &#8220;broad support&#8221; for U.S. action against the group.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;That&#8217;s the way you get congressional support. I&#8217;ve said \u2014 when Elizabeth Warren begins to sound like Dick Cheney, you know that there&#8217;s pretty broad bipartisan support here for dealing with this group of terrorists.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>I would actually go further, and say that a formal War Powers Act resolution.<\/p>\n<p>This may be simple political posturing on the part of the Senate Minority Leader, but the ability to declare war was vested in the legislative branch for a reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, his motives are suspect, but when he calls for Congressional approval for the new war in Iraq, he&#8217;s right: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday that President Barack Obama should seek congressional approval for the U.S. strategy on ISIS.&#8220;The view of myself and most of my members is the president should &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097,986,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}