Don Stephenson

Republitarian before it was cool. Christian, husband, father and creative director.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@LibertyLockPod @LevinInches To send that witch packing, I’d move to KY-4.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@EricLDaugh In case anyone is confused by the shapeshifting Trump, he was FOR Massie before Epstien.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@GuntherEagleman @EricLDaugh Dream on, waterboy.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@catturd2 Just so nobody is confused by Trump’s shapeshifting, he was FOR Massie until Epstien.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@GuntherEagleman Just so nobody is co fused by Trump’s shapeshifting, he was FOR Massie until Epstein.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

Just so nobody gets confused by Trump the shapeshifter, he was FOR Thomas Massie until Epstein.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@DineshDSouza @mdd0027 This, coming from a man who clearly doesn’t know even the most basic of facts about the single greatest conservative in Congress.

Hint: obstacles are GOOD when GOP leadership is BAD.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@FBI @DannyNelsonEA While arrests of Epstein class predators remains at zero.

Job not well done. Not at all, in fact.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@GuntherEagleman You officially have zero credibility.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@HannahDCox Sadly, when congress isn’t full of opportunistic yes-men. Which is to say, never.

[Mark McEathron @Mark_McEathron]

The ends do not justify the means.

Before Congress convenes on Monday morning, President Trump owes the American people an Oval Office Nationwide address to inform us of his intention to engage us in another war.

If he cannot articulate how we were either already in a State of War OR if he cannot articulate how he was repelling an attack, then the action against Iran was wholly Unconstitutional.

It would be a gross usurpation of power reserved solely for the Legislative Branch.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 11
“The Congress shall have Power To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.”

HOWEVER!...

If he CAN articulate how we were already in a State of War OR how he was repelling an invasion, then the attacks are absolutely completely constitutional.

So far, he has not made either case.

He owes it to the American people to give us a Nationwide Oval Office Address to make the case one way or another.

"Iran bad" is not enough.

“A government of laws and not of men.” - John Adams.

If he can articulate this, he will silence the Democrat and Libertarian shouts that this is Unconstitutional.

If he can't, he will make them right.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I am opposed to this War.

This is not “America First.”

When Congress reconvenes, I will work with @RepRoKhanna to force a Congressional vote on war with Iran.

The Constitution requires a vote, and your Representative needs to be on record as opposing or supporting this war.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

As yet another preemptive war is begun in the Middle East, John Quincy Adam’s words of wisdom still ring true:

“Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.”

Like most Americans I have sympathy for the plight of the Iranian people and all subjected people around the globe, from North Korea to Tibet.

But as Adam’s wrote, America:  “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.

She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

The Constitution conferred the power to declare or initiate war to Congress for a reason, to make war less likely.  

Madison wrote that “the Executive Branch is the branch most prone to war, therefore, the Constitution, with studied care, delegated the war power to the legislature.”

As with all war, my first and purest instinct is wish Americans soldiers safety and success in their mission.  

But my oath of office is to the Constitution, so with studied care, I must oppose another Presidential war.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

Hey folks at the @DOJ all it takes is ONE person with a conscience. Be the @Snowden of Epsteingate. Release the files and be the hero of all humanity.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

SO PERFECTLY SAID.

[Chicano Marine 🇲🇽🇺🇸💙 @elchicanomarine]

MAGA is waking up…

[Chicano Marine 🇲🇽🇺🇸💙 @elchicanomarine]

MAGA is waking up…

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@ImBreckWorsham That’s what happens when we vote for people who will say literally anything to get elected. Those promises meant nothing to him then, so they mean nothing to him now.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@RepThomasMassie Curiously, you left off the wood chipper option. I would’ve liked to vote for the wood chipper.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@RealSpitfire It’d be a lot easier to swallow if we could see all the names of the non-victims, and see all of the content that is hiding behind Pam Bondi’s wall of redactions.

[Don Stephenson @StephensonOhio]

@Sassafrass_84 “Whistleblower”?!?

He fought the release of these files EVERY. STEP. OF. THE. WAY.