The Trump administration’s relationship with a peace deal in Iran is starting to feel like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Or, as the kids on my team tell me, like Jen and Ben (that’s Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, by the way).
Will they? Won’t they?
One day we’re told a deal is imminent. The next day we’re told the conflict could drag on indefinitely. Then we’re told peace is just days away. And then, back to the bombs.
And somehow, despite all this happening in real time, administration officials keep talking in terms of weeks — just four to six more…weeks. Well it hasn’t been weeks. We’ve been at war with Iran for months.
At some point, Congress should probably start doing its job and pass a War Powers Resolution, or cut off funding, or conduct some real oversight and investigations. But they won’t. That’s just one of many reasons why winning the midterms matters so much.
We need leaders who will ask tough questions and conduct real oversight. And that means not just electing Democrats, but electing the right Democrats.
November may be our only real shot at holding Trump and his collection of deeply unqualified, enthusiastically sycophantic war hawks accountable. So please donate to Midwest Values PAC so we can continue investing in the candidates who will help Democrats flip the House and the Senate and put actual guardrails back on power.
And at the end of all this I want to hear Trump explain how “we won this war”. Little things. Like how we depleted our missile stocks, I’m sure emboldening China. And of course, losing 14 of our service members with hundreds wounded — not to mention the thousands of Iranians killed and Lebanese, not just Hezbollah, but hundreds if not thousands of noncombatants.
I can’t wait to hear about all the winning.
Al
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