Pre-election posturing or more meaningful than that?

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Senate’s historic war powers vote underscores Trump’s loosening grip on Capitol Hill​

Three weeks ago, the U.S. House took a step that hardly seemed possible: The Republican-led chamber adopted a war powers resolution, reasserting Congress’ authority over the war. The 215-208 vote featured four GOP members joining all Democrats in support of the measure.

The vote was a stinging setback for Donald Trump, who condemned the developments with predictable rage, castigating the vote as “unpatriotic” and telling the four Republicans who backed the resolution that they “should be ashamed of themselves.”

Twenty days later, the Republican-led Senate did the same thing. NBC News reported:

The Senate on Tuesday approved a war powers resolution previously passed in the House that rebukes President Donald Trump by calling for an end to the U.S. war against Iran.

The resolution passed 50-48, with four Senate Republicans joining almost all Democrats in support of the measure. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., opposed the resolution, and two Republicans did not vote. The nonbinding measure is Capitol Hill’s sharpest symbolic pushback on the war yet.

Senate’s historic war powers vote underscores Trump’s loosening grip on Capitol Hill

The upper chamber took an unprecedented step by passing the resolution, rebuking the president on the Iran war.

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Is there a readthrough from this vote? To me it looks like just a few Senate R's breaking ranks. Is it a sign of something more significant? Has the fear of retribution subsided a bit as Don is now looking up at 31% approval? For it to matter it's going to take more than a handful of R's to find some political courage. It's going to take more of them to align themselves more closely with the growing majority of Americans in rejecting nearly everything trump has done and is doing.

The rest of Don's lame duck term could hang in the balance.