You Will Anyway: Lindsey whoring for Trump again

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Lindsey whoring for Trump again

[A] back-and-forth between [Republican Senators Rand] Paul and [Lindsey] Graham comes after a closed-door briefing with top administration officials on the U.S. airstrike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Paul and Lee both said after the briefing that they will support a resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that would limit Trump's ability to take military action against Iran without congressional signoff.

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Graham told reporters on Wednesday that he thought Paul and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) were "overreacting" by criticizing comments made during [the] briefing.

"They're libertarians," Graham said. "I think they're overreacting, quite frankly. Go debate all you want to. I'm going to debate you. Trust me, I'm going to let people know that at this moment in time to play this game with the war powers act ... whether you mean to or not, you're empowering the enemy."

Paul, asked about the comments during an interview with CNN, argued that Graham isn't familiar with the Constitution and was invoking a "fake sort of drape of patriotism."

"I love my country as much as the next guy, but for him to insult and say that somehow we're not as patriotic as he is — he hasn't even read the history of the Constitution," Paul said.

"He insults the Constitution, our Founding Fathers and what we do stand for in this republic by making light of it and accusing people of lacking patriotism. I think that's a low, gutter type of response," Paul added.

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Paul said after the briefing that using a 2002 authorization as the legal basis for the strike that killed Soleimani in Baghdad was "absurd" and an "insult."

"I see no way in the world you could logically argue that an authorization to have war with Saddam Hussein has anything to with having war with people currently in Iraq," Paul told reporters.

But that's what they're trying to do, led by Mike Pence's ridiculous accusation that Soleimani had something to do with 9/11.

I wonder if Lindsey has thought about the wisdom of picking a fight with fellow Republicans at this particular moment in time.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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