Kaine: ‘Height of Public Immorality’ for Obama To Wage War on ISIS Without Congress

‘How dare we ask people to risk that if we’re not willing to do our job to have a debate in front of the American public?’

Dem Senator: ‘Height of Public Immorality’ for Obama to Wage War on ISIS without Congress (National Review Online)

Democratic senator Tim Kaine had some harsh words for the White House over its failure to secure congressional authority for the U.S. war against the Islamic State, calling it ”the height of public immorality.”

The Virginia lawmaker spoke Wednesday at the D.C.-based Wilson Center, during an event concerning the expansion of executive war-making powers in the Obama years. Kaine described what he saw as “a symbiotic pathology between executive overreach and congressional abdication,” which has led to presidents increasingly going it alone.

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