came out swinging today in public remarks defending himself against the House impeachment gambit led by , the libertarian Republican from Kentucky.
Although Massie is a zealous anti-Trumper (who in fact will no longer be in Congress after this year because the president encouraged what turned out to be a successful primary against him), his strident opposition to presidential war-making in the absence of congressional authorization was consistent throughout his congressional career, going back to his objections to President Obama’s threats to attack Syria and strikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. (I couldn’t find a record of Massie’s objecting to Obama’s use of force in Libya without congressional authorization, but that happened in 2011 and Massie did not enter Congress until late 2012.)
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