{"id":159,"date":"2016-02-01T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2016-02-01T10:54:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:54:45","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-wants-to-give-obama-unlimited-war-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/mitch-mcconnell-wants-to-give-obama-unlimited-war-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell Wants to Give Obama Unlimited War Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/mitch-mcconnell-pushes-to-give-obama-unlimited-war-powers_012016\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/main-banner.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, this doesn&#8217;t grant Obama the authority to strike ISIS. This gives him unlimited war powers in the broadest sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this week, Senator Mitch McConnell fast tracked a bill written by Senator Lindsey Graham, which would give Obama the Authority to officially deploy our military against ISIS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mitch-mcconnell-war-authorization-isis_us_56a115eae4b0404eb8f083d0\" target=\"_blank\">and then some<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In other words, this AUMF wouldn\u2019t just give Obama permission strike ISIS anywhere in the world.<strong> It gives him the ability to deploy our military anywhere in the world, foreign or domestic<\/strong>, for an undetermined period of time, <strong>at the mere suggestion that ISIS is there.<\/strong> And it won\u2019t be hard for them to prove ISIS is there, since anyone can wave their flag and carry out attacks in their name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysheeple.com\/mitch-mcconnell-pushes-to-give-obama-unlimited-war-powers_012016\">Mitch McConnell Wants to Give Obama Unlimited War Powers | The Daily Sheeple<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make no mistake, this doesn&#8217;t grant Obama the authority to strike ISIS. This gives him unlimited war powers in the broadest sense. Earlier this week, Senator Mitch McConnell fast tracked a bill written by Senator Lindsey Graham, which would give Obama the Authority to officially deploy our military against ISIS and then some. In other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/mitch-mcconnell-wants-to-give-obama-unlimited-war-powers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mitch McConnell Wants to Give Obama Unlimited War Powers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}