This week has delivered a series of positive results in the Epic Fury effort, playing out in Iran. The ceasefire is holding, Iran’s defense is reduced to a few stray button pushers in the fragmented military, the Iranian ports are on full lockdown, we have partnered with angry nations in the region to confiscate banking access, and we have just seen the news that the Strait of Hormuz is essentially open for commerce.
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And yet the Democrats, in the face of these successes, are pitching a political fit and seek to handcuff the president. Despite repeated losses, the House Democrats brought another War Powers Resolution to a vote Thursday, and this was narrowly defeated by a solitary vote. Iran is crippled, yet they want the operation to shut down. This is an effort to lower the speed limit and install speed bumps to target a vehicle that is up on blocks in the front yard.
The partyline breakdown saw Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-04) joining the Dems, Democrat Rep. Jared Golden (ME-02) flipping to vote against the measure, another Dem voting “present,” and three other Republicans abstaining altogether. Making this fourth attempt all the more impotent for Democrats on the Hill is that this result matches the Senate's attempt to disarm the military being shot down, by a 52-47 margin.
That Senate vote was the fourth attempt to get this passed, yet in the face of repeated rejections, the Democrats are undeterred. A perfect sign of the impacted thinking by the Dems comes from Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who insists that they will continue to bring these votes up, convinced they will eventually peel away enough Republicans to get their way.
Sen. Chris Murphy says he will continue to force the war powers resolution vote each week because he thinks GOP lawmakers might eventually join him and his fellow Democrats. “I think it will be harder for Republicans to continue to support a war that is spiraling out of control.” pic.twitter.com/DS2zx1PR7e
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) April 16, 2026
Understand this cement-head logic: As our military has just imposed near-complete control over this terror regime, they want the resolution passed that will force us to back away from the blockade that has entirely shut down Iran’s commercial trade. That country is essentially frozen and withering, but the Democrats want us to drop the shackles and let the country run free, not unlike their domestic immigration policy of seeing arrested illegal aliens released back into the public.
Why they think there will be others inspired to corral our military at a point when we are looking dominant over Iran in less than two months is amazing. It seems apparent that the Democrats are buying the snake oil being sold in the press that Iran is winning this conflict, a clear case of desperate wishcasting that has been on display since Epic Fury began.
This is what it looks like when hatred of one man is so encompassing that it eclipses the desire to see the nation succeed. The result is a political party voting against an action they spent years declaring was a needed effort – only now they oppose it stridently, because the “wrong” person is enacting the policy.
Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.
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