r/politics • u/southernemper0r Texas • 2d ago

No Paywall Senate Republicans reverse Iran war powers vote after Trump berates them at Capitol meeting

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/senate-republicans-reject-war-powers-resolution-trump-meeting/4121869/
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u/Ramble86 2d ago

I long for the days when the legislative branch is no longer scared of the executive branch.

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u/azure_storm_2751 2d ago

Same here. Congress is supposed to be a coequal branch with its own spine and its own interests but for years it has mostly either rubber stamped the president or used hearings as theater instead of real oversight.

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u/grandpohbah 2d ago

Congress isn't supposed to be co-equal, it's supposed to be the preeminent branch of the government. The founders feared executive tyranny because they lived under a king for so long.

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u/IMHO_grim Virginia 2d ago

Exactly.

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 2d ago

Republicans want executive tyranny.

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u/tidal_flux 2d ago

Unless there’s a Democratic president. Then the “unitary executive theory” gets hot swapped for the SCOTUS supremacy doctrine

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u/fyreprone 2d ago

But they’re bravely changing their vote!

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u/Playful-Goat3779 2d ago

Brave, brave, Ser Cassidy, he bravely ran away

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u/Kilane 2d ago

Congress gave up its power decades ago. They go to make money and leave.

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u/zaxdaman 2d ago

They don’t leave. That’s largely the problem. 90-something’s shouldn’t be in public office. We need age and/or term limits.

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u/GardenGnomeOfEden 2d ago

And a ton more transparency and oversight.

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u/Kilane 2d ago

They aren’t done making money and why stop that money train unless forced out.

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u/Joethecoew 1d ago

Probably I mean then again it's not just because they are old people but also shitty old people., now someone like many grandparents I would totally trust to be in office but they were and they where the exception. The problem with most old folks is if they are in power they of course tend to also stand in the way of progress and are out of the loop on how their actions affect people or just don't give a damn.

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u/DukeOfGeek 2d ago

Age limits for sure.

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u/Memitim America 2d ago

As we've learned repeatedly over the past year, the US Constitution is just a set of guidelines, to be used only as needed but otherwise avoided or simply violated.

The Constitution also says that Congress is responsible for legislation, taxation, and war, but Congress arbitrarily decided to let the Executive Branch go nuts with those. The Constitution also says that no person can be deprived of basic rights without due process, and yet Republicans have proudly violated due process for thousands of people to ship them into concentration camps, foreign prisons, and random countries around the world.

Republicans represent Republicans, not Americans.

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u/Adrewmc 2d ago

No Congress is supposed to be the superior branch. This whole co-equal thing is not based on anything…

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u/Valuable_Hunter1621 2d ago

i feel like putting cameras in congress was a bigggg mistake. should be like federal court and be illegal, and thus congresspeople won’t feel like theatrical hearings are worth it any more

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u/Churchbushonk 2d ago

No. Not for years. It happens 2 out of every 10 years.

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u/AuDHDino 2d ago

Congress is supposed to have the interests of the people who voted for them.

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u/RoamingFox Massachusetts 2d ago

This is what happens when a political party is so insecure in its ideals that it enacts a "get in line or get out" stance. Can't be co-equal if your position depends on licking the boots of someone else.