In a move that surprised many Beltway pundits, Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann, a hard-line conservative on most foreign policy issues, joined with traditional non-interventionists such as Ron Paul of Texas and North Carolina’s Walter Jones on Friday in supporting U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s resolution calling for an end to U.S. participation in the NATO mission in Libya.
Kucinich’s resolution, which failed by a margin of 265-148, would have given President Obama fifteen days to end U.S. involvement in the Libyan conflict.
Bachmann, who is expected to declare her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination later this month in Waterloo, Iowa, was one of 87 House Republicans who supported Kucinich’s antiwar measure, which would have mandated an immediate end to U.S. military participation in the NATO mission absent congressional authorization.
Dozens of freshman Republican lawmakers joined Bachmann in supporting Kucinich’s resolution, prompting one Democrat to quip that it must be a “sign of the apocalypse.”
Only 61 Democrats supported the Ohio congressman’s measure.
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