In rebuke to Trump, Senate votes to consider ending U.S. involvement in Yemen war

[UpInArms]

Source: Marketwatch

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to begin considering a resolution to withdraw U.S. support for Saudi forces in Yemen, defying top administration officials who just hours earlier had come to Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers to do the opposite.

The 63-37 vote marked a rebuke of the White House as senators vented their frustration over President Donald Trump’s reluctance to hold Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman responsible for the early October killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in the country’s consulate in Istanbul.

“The fact that we haven’t forced [the crown prince] to come clean is creating a problem,” said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn. “We’re very likely to support a vehicle that allows us to somehow or other to address this since the administration appears unwilling to do so.”

Trump has repeatedly dismissed U.S. intelligence conclusions that the Saudi crown prince ordered the killing of the dissident journalist. Trump suggested the U.S. wouldn’t impose further punishment on Saudi Arabia over the killing and said it was unknowable whether the crown prince had ordered it.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-rebuke-to-trump-senate-votes-to-consider-ending-us-involvement-in-yemen-war-2018-11-28

[libdem4life]

1. Because he's too chicken to listen to the tape.

Don't know why Gaspel hasn't been able to read/listen. It's a murderous conundrum.

We still have people of conscience on both sides of the aisle. All is not lost in the Donnie in Trumpland version of Alice in Wonderland.

[Honeycombe8]

2. Breaking news!: Janitor finds spines in closet in Senate Hall....

After determining that those were the missing Republican spines lost in late 2016, McConnell ordered that the spines be returned to their rightful Senators.

The spines no longer fit some of their owners. Those whose returned spines fit adequately were able to return to work and vote today like a Republican Senator with a spine.

[sandensea]

3. The bill was introduced by Bernie Sanders.

Thank you, sir.

[malthaussen]

4. "Voted to consider to maybe start thinking about something?"

Wait, I am unclear on this: is it the announcement, or the announcement that soon an announcement will be made about an announcement?

-- Mal

[UpInArms]

5. Contemplating having an underling draft a strongly worded

Memo to another underling