Rand Paul: ‘Extraordinary Moment’ When Senate Passed Resolution Invoking War Powers to Stop Illegal Yemen War

Rand Paul claims an ‘Extraordinary Moment’ as the Senate Passes a Resolution Invoking War Powers to Stop the illegal Yemen war

Breitbart
December 14, 2018

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News it was an extraordinary moment when the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a resolution to invoke the War Powers act expressing congressional disapproval of U.S. backing of Saudi Arabias war in Yemen.

The resolution passed 56-41 on final passage, over the objections of many establishment Republicans, but with strong support from conservatives like Paul and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), as well as from grassroots leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats.

I think it is an extraordinary moment because for decades, maybe for 50 or 60 years, Congress has been relinquishing and abdicating their power to indicate whether the country is at war, Paul told Breitbart News. So this is a big step and it is a big majority voting to say you know what?

Declaration of war comes from Congress and we dont approve of the war in Yemen now. So that is a big step and it really came across the aisle, both sides coming together. Its a pretty big deal. The historic nature of this being the first time since Vietnam is huge.

What Paul means is that the U.S. Congress passed into law the War Powers Act in 1973 overriding a presidential veto from Richard Nixon in the wake of the highly unpopular Vietnam War. The law has never been invoked by either Chamber since the House and Senate overrode Nixons veto, but now on Thursday, for the first time ever, the U.S. Senate has by a majority invoked the War Powers Act.

From here forward, Paul said that while House GOP leadership has used rules potentially unlawfully to block consideration of a House resolution the new incoming Democrat leadership on the House side may be friendlier to this cause in January.

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Nancy Pelosi Says She Would “Close Ther Government Forever” Rather Than Fund Trump’s Wall

Nancy Pelosi Says She Would “Close Ther Government Forever” Rather Than Fund Trump’s Wall

By Dark Politricks

Now the Democrats have control of the Congress and the Republicans the Senate, and Trump and Russia (supposedly), the White House, there is going to be a lot of gridlock in DC for the foreseeable future.

The Democrats have the power to impeach Trump who threatened only the other day that any attempt to do could cause a revolution.

Donald Trump wants to build a massive wall just like the Chinese did thousands of years ago to keep out the Mexicans and other migrants. I expect he will want to bury the dead bodies of those who worked building the wall inside it as well. 

How he doesn't expect people to just build tunnels under it like they do in Gaza to Egypt or how El Chappo escaped from 2 Mexican prisons I don't know, but he thinks a wall is the answer to all his migration problems despite more people leaving the US now than arriving.

This is the article from Steve Watson at Prison Planet.com

Addressing the media Thursday, Nancy Pelosi vowed that she will not negotiate border wall funding and would rather keep the government closed forever.

Pelosi told the media that she is confident that President Trump will eventually sign a bill excluding his requested border wall funding “because does he want to have government closed forever?”




“I mean, what’s this about? I know he doesn’t believe in government, I know that he doesn’t know that much about what is at risk to shut it down, but I think that it would be — and let’s not talk about what might happen,” Pelosi said.

“Let’s talk about what we can do right now to keep government open. There is strong bipartisan support to do that. The only obstacle is the president of the United States.” She added.

Congress has to pass an appropriations bill to fund the government before the end of the year, otherwise there will be a partial government shutdown.

Trump said earlier in the week that he would be proud to shut down the government for border security, insisting that Democrats fund the wall.

TRUMP to SCHUMER: "I am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. People in this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country" pic.twitter.com/E8CRW9k7pe

— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) December 11, 2018

The President also released a video Thursday, slamming the hypocrite Democrats, who previously supported strong borders, saying that they are only now opposing border wall funding to oppose his presidency.

Lets not do a shutdown, Democrats – do whats right for the American People! pic.twitter.com/bZg07ZKQqo

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2018

The Democrats are absolute hypocrites. All along they've been supporting walls, and supporting fences and supporting all sorts of border security, Trump said, before airing clips of Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama pledging to crack down on illegal immigration.

The fact is they've always supported fences, and walls and partitions, but you know what? They only don't want to do it because of me. They have to put the people ahead of politics, Trump added.

Earlier this week, Border Patrol Union Vice President Art Del Cueto slammed Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for their actions at the White House meeting.

“Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, they can come down here and help us patrol the border and Ill show them how difficult and how dangerous it really is, and how that wall makes a difference.” Del Cueto said.

Get Corruption Out Of Our Politics - 75% of Americans Agree!

Get Corruption Out Of Our Politics - 75% of Americans Agree!

By Dark Politricks

This is a YoungTurks video about getting corruption out of politics and is a leader to my article and a subsequent video.


This second video shows how people from any political persuasion whether it be from the left or right of politics, green, libertarian, conservative or liberal can actually get corruption out of politics and gives us a road map to doing so.

75% of people across the country agree that big money = votes and there are some very surprising stats in the next video which show how very few people actually control Congress and the Presidential Elections through their use of their money.

These "influencers" are literally in the hundreds!

Whilst everyone may have a vote to chose their President or Congressman, the power of money influences the choices brought before the electorate in the first place.

The Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court was a decision that was hated by Conservatives and Liberals alike.

Crony Capitalism and Corporate Interests overriding the public interest has been firmly cemented into the US political arena and with most ex-politicians becoming K-Street Lobbyists there is a series of revolving doors that prevents change from occurring within the establishment.

It's akin to asking to a builder to stop laying bricks and not get paid. Nearly all politicians act in their OWN interest and not the PUBLIC INTEREST.

My own essays have repeatedly called for getting money out of politics so that politicians don't have to sell their soul to the devil to get elected and then re-elected. Personally I would also append term limits and a way to reduce the influence of lobbyists from politics from any grass up anti-corruption movement.

Politicians should take the wishes of the people who voted for them into consideration over any rich benefactor or paymaster and in this day and age we should not find it too hard with modern technology to give more power to interested people to influence decision making.

People who don't care about politics or know nothing about complex issues are likely to vote on gut feeling alone, the latest anti-immigrant leaflet that comes through their door or not bother voting at all.

People who are interested in the issues of the day do vote but are constantly dismayed over the lack of progress or gridlock in their own government that prevents real change from ever occurring.

We currently have an over reaching US government that has broken free from the constraints of the constitution.

Starting wars without consent, constant spying of their citizens, and ignoring the "piece of paper" that is there to limit NOT expand the Presidents executive power. It is actions like these that make the ignorant or carefree politically active.

In my own country the UK it is the same, the 3 main parties are all fighting over centre ground and there is no real choice.

For a new party or a small one like UKIP or the Greens to have any influence at home only a fairer system in which televised political debates involve more parties and new parties can get on the ladder. We need every party to be able to fight on an even footing if it is to be fair for the future.

In this regard I can only see publicly funded elections as a means to bringing more political parties to the forefront.

To prevent a two man band of crazies getting the same amount of money as a major party the amount of public purse given to any political party should be decided on the number of votes they can muster. The better they do the more money they get.

Further money should only come from small donations and not big business looking to block the next big issue on the horizon.

There are a lot of choices out there for anyone looking to change the current way our governments work. However the most important aim is to reduce the influence of a tiny few super rich people and give more "real" choice to the people when they go to vote.

The next video shows how corrupt the current system is and gives the people a route to changing it.



View the original article about getting corruption out of our politics at www.darkpolitricks.com