Friday, April 5, 2019

Trump Guarantees Himself a One-Term Presidency if He Vetoes the War Powers Act Resolution on Yemen

AP has an extensive story (see Ahmed al-Haj's "Cholera is surging once again in war-ravaged Yemen") about a doubling of reported cholera cases in Yemen.

It took a while but yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives voted to end military involvement in Yemen (see Catie Edmondson's "U.S. Role in Yemen War Will End Unless Trump Issues Second Veto"),

What was particularly encouraging about the vote is that the GOP's ultimate nullifier, crying wolf over anti-Semitism in form of an anti-BDS amendment, failed to work this go-round. There was Democratic unity. The War Powers Act resolution passed 247-to-176, "with 16 Republicans joining all House Democrats."

Now it is on to the White House for a promised Trump veto, which will amount to a new presidential power to declare war unilaterally with a mere one-third support in either chamber of congress.

The silver lining of a veto is that it will be political suicide for Trump; it will box him in with his hard-shell minority, a base from which he cannot win a national election.

A veto will also create a legitimate, non-Mueller-oriented movement to impeach Trump for waging an illegal war.

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