Jamie Raskin: “I urgently commend to our colleagues across the aisle the speech that President Lincoln, the founder of their party…”

“I urgently commend to our colleagues across the aisle the speech that President Lincoln, the founder of their party, made about the Mexican-American War. He stood in this Chamber and said: On something as important and as grave as going to war, we want to know exactly what the rationale is, exactly why we are doing it. He got the nickname Spotty because he said he wanted to know the exact spot where American blood was shed. Well, there is a real accounting to be done in terms of what is the factual predicate for this war that Donald Trump wants. This debate is not about the gentleman's personal weird code on touching. This is about war, and that is what we are here to talk about. Quite frankly, it deserves a more serious treatment from the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.”