Action Alert! Call your senators and members of Congress and demand a debate and a vote on ISIS

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Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) criticized House Republicans on Wednesday for suing the president over executive actions, while at the same time, ducking a vote on authorizing action against ISIS militants. Sen. King: House GOP sues Obama but won’t vote on ISIS action:

Toyota“Some of the same people who are suing the president for being too active as an executive are now saying, ‘We’re not going to get involved’ ” in authorizing Obama to fight ISIS, King said on CNN’s “New Day.”

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King has been calling for Congress to take an authorization vote.

Without a vote, he said, “I’m uncomfortable with the expansion of presidential authority.”

The House on Tuesday condemned President Obama for failing to give 30-day notice to Congress about the exchange in May of American prisoner Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban leaders held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. House condemns Obama for prisoner swap. The 30 day notification requirement for releasing inmates from Guantanamo is arguably an unconstitutional infringement on the president’s warmaking powers. A new report says Obama’s Bowe Berghdahl prisoner was illegal. Here’s what it missed.

And yet, Congress is ready to abdicate its constitutional duty pertaining to war, giving the president a wink and a nod to take us to war against ISIS in Iraq and possibly Syria — a sovereign nation for which there is no Authorization for use of Military Force (AUMF) — because Congress doesn’t want to debate war and to cast a vote during an election.

It was just this June the very same House passed a resolution requiring Congress to approve troops in Iraq: “The House on Friday passed a resolution requiring authorization from Congress for a sustained presence of combat troops in Iraq.  The resolution passed with bipartisan support in a 370-40 vote.  [T]he House passed an amended version to require congressional authorization regarding Iraq.” So where is the required vote for congressional authorization?

Some of the more disturbing headlines from Washington, D.C today:

Why is Congress abdicating its constitutional duty? Partisan electoral politics. GOP Rep. Jack Kingston, on why Congressional Republicans don’t want to vote on a resolution authorizing military action:

“Republicans don’t want to change anything. We like the path we’re on now. We can denounce it if it goes bad, and praise it if it goes well and ask what took him so long.”

Call your senators and members of Congress to demand a debate and a vote on ISIS, and to do their constitutional duty.

2 thoughts on “Action Alert! Call your senators and members of Congress and demand a debate and a vote on ISIS”

  1. “Republicans don’t want to change anything. We like the path we’re on now. We can denounce it if it goes bad, and praise it if it goes well and ask what took him so long.”

    I am embarrassed by the temerity of my Prty in avaoiding one of their greatest responsibilities: the use of military force against a foreign entity. I realize that the Democrats are also shirking their responsibility as well, but that doesn’t give a pass to the Republicans.

    President Obama is rightfully cautious and he should a Congress doing their duty to support him. He may be the Commander in Chief but he is not a King and before we take further war-like action he deserves the support and approval of Congress. I approve and applaud the resiliency he has shown in resisting the various demands that have been made on him to go back to war. I written him to say so. I have also written my Congressmen demanding they take a vote on ISIS.

  2. Good luck with that the democrats are more afraid of a vote then the republicans. How would congress woman synama vote?

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