Murkowski Joins GOP Revolt in Failed Senate War Powers Vote

Alaska's embarrassment, Senator "Princess" Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), has struck again. This time, she joined Republicans Susan Collins (R-ME) and Rand Paul (R-KY) in voting for a resolution to force President Trump to pull out our armed forces who are still poised, locked, loaded, and aimed at Iran. The good news is that the resolution still failed.

Republicans’ support for President Donald Trump's war on Iran fractured on Wednesday.
Senate Democrats have tried to splinter off Republicans from their near-unified backing of Operation Epic Fury for months with a campaign of attrition, putting war powers resolution after war powers resolution on the floor ever since fighting began.
And after two months of trying, they finally got some in the GOP to flip on Trump with Sen. Jeff Merkley's, D-Ore., latest attempt. Still, it wasn’t enough to terminate ongoing operations in the Middle East.

The resolution failed in part because of the Democrats' last sane Senator: John Fetterman (D-PA), who voted against the War Powers resolution. The administration is insisting that the cease-fire is, in effect, a reset button on the conflict's 60-day window.

Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has consistently voted to handcuff Trump’s war powers, all joined Democrats to end Operation Epic Fury.
It comes after Congress blew past the 60-day deadline to weigh in on fighting in the region, and hours after Trump touched down in China.
Top Trump administration officials, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, argued that the 60-day deadline was moot because fighting was paused under a ceasefire.
However, Trump, after rejecting the latest proposal from Iran, said on Tuesday that the fragile truce is on "life support."

The truce was doomed to fail from the beginning; even if a deal was struck that both sides could agree to, one side - Iran - would have broken that agreement at the first opportunity. The Iranian theocratic regime lies as naturally as they breathe, and the administration needs to operate, always, on that assumption.

Senate Dems' Latest Try at Limiting Trump War Powers an Exercise in Futility

Democrats are showing their usual failure to understand, well, reality.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the Democratic sponsor of the resolution said the military operation against Iran, Epic Fury, should be renamed “Epic Failure.”
“We have in this situation no access to the highly enriched uranium, we have strengthened the [Iranian] hardliners, we have weakened the reformers, we have damaged our relationship with our allies,” he said before the vote.

It's tempting to ask Senator Merkley what alternate universe he inhabits, because what he's describing sure isn't the case in our reality. We have no access to Iran's uranium at the moment because we buried it under tons of rock and rubble in Operation Midnight Hammer. Strengthened the hardliners? Well, we've strengthened a lot of them right into spare parts and grease stains. The remaining regime leaders are scurrying around like cockroaches when a light is suddenly turned on, and probably re-checking the balances in their Swiss bank accounts for the hundredth time. The reformers are fired up; trust me, I talked to a bunch of Iranian ex-pats in March at the Dallas, Texas-based Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and they are fired up; and the evidence of thousands of Iranians still taking to the streets is indicative.

In short, Senator Merkley simply doesn't know what he's talking about. Iran's military is gone. They are quickly running out of assets. They are broke. And there are indications that what's left of their leadership may be fixing to bail.

Senator Merkley opposes this. He, along with Princess Lisa and the others, opposes ending, finally, the most vicious, primitive, terror-spawning regime on the planet. Fortunately, the resolution, for now, has failed. And if Senator Fetterman wants to thumb his nose across the Senate chamber at Senator Merkley, I think that would be entirely appropriate, decorum or no.

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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