The House of Representatives did not pass a resolution to end the war with Iran. The resolution failed by one vote because Democrat Jared Golden from Maine voted with Republicans to keep the war in place. The same man who has accepted over $3 million from AIPAC.
This vote was symbolic because the measure already failed in the Senate but it shows us something important: Congress is comatose.
The Constitution gives them the responsibility to stop one man from waging war at his whim, namely the President. Now both chambers have said that this war is a-okay by them.
Democrats are leading the opposition to the war but don’t give them too much credit. They voted repeatedly to fund the war in Ukraine and looked the other way during the genocide on Gaza during the Biden years. It is safe to say that the opposition party plays like they want peace when they are out of power only to wage war afresh when they are.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald calls this “Villain Rotation.”
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