Huh? Rep. McKeon on the White House and the Iraq AUMF

A little postscript to my note about Friday’s vote in the House, regarding military operations in Iraq: this quite critical statement, which House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon released on Friday. Its gist is to scold the White House, in light of a letter Susan Rice had sent to House Speaker John Boehner in advance of the vote.
Recall that Rice's letter said essentially two things: first, that in the White House's view, Friday’s vote, to bar the President from deploying our military to any “sustained combat role” in Iraq, was all fine and good; but second, that Congress would actually do better to carry out the Administration's wishes, by repealing the 2002 Iraq AUMF altogether.
Rep. McKeon greeted all this with quite a broadside (emphasis supplied):

When Speaker Boehner told me about Ms. Rice’s letter, I thought he was joking.
Obama Administration officials are warning us daily that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is ‘worse than al-Qaeda’ and an extreme threat to the American people. The American people aren’t worried that the President will send the military back to Iraq. They’re worried about a deadly terrorist state that can hit us from Wall Street to Main Street. They’re worried that this President refuses to do anything, at anytime, in anyway, to stop the flood of national security crises that are popping up around the globe.
Why on earth is the President’s National Security Advisor pleading with Congress to help build Americans' confidence that the President will not confront a clear and present danger to the United States? He needs no help there.  Where is her plan to stop this looming threat? Where is her request for additional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets to monitor the situation? Why isn’t she over here, building support to stop a common enemy? Why is she fighting Congress instead of ISIS? Why on earth is she refighting the 2003 Iraq War in 2014?
This isn’t just absurd. We’re past absurd. This is dangerous. This Administration is fiddling while the world burns, and now they’re demanding Congress play with them.
If the Administration fought terrorists with half the tenacity they fight straw men, we wouldn’t be in this mess. It is my sincere hope that someone comes to their senses on Pennsylvania Avenue, before something worse happens.

The subtext is plain enough: we ought to be taking ISIS on, and in aggressive fashion. And anything that makes it tougher to beat back the “clear and present danger” posed by ISIS---like, say, a decision to narrow the President’s power to use force in Iraq against that very group---would be bad.
Below you will find a tally of votes in favor of Friday’s resolution---which, again, would prohibit the military from big-time combat in Iraq, against ISIS or anyone else:

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Amash Amodei Bachmann Bachus Barber Barletta Barr Barrow (GA) Barton Bass Beatty Becerra Benishek Bentivolio Bera (CA) Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Black Blackburn Blumenauer Bonamici Boustany Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Braley (IA) Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Broun (GA) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Buchanan Bucshon Burgess Bustos Butterfield Byrne Calvert Camp Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carney Carson (IN) Carter Cassidy Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chabot Chaffetz Chu Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clawson (FL) Clay Cleaver Cohen Cole Collins (GA) Conaway Connolly Conyers Cook Cooper Costa Courtney Cramer Crenshaw Crowley Cuellar Culberson Cummings Daines Davis (CA) Davis, Danny Davis, Rodney DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Denham Dent DeSantis Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Doyle Duckworth Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Edwards Ellison Ellmers Engel Enyart Eshoo Esty Farenthold Farr Fattah Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleming Forbes Fortenberry Foster Foxx Frankel (FL) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Fudge Gabbard Gallego Garamendi Garcia Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gohmert Goodlatte

Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Guthrie Gutiérrez Hahn Hall Hanabusa Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (FL) Hastings (WA) Heck (NV) Hensarling Herrera Beutler Higgins Himes Hinojosa Holding Holt Horsford Hoyer Hudson Huelskamp Huffman Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hurt Israel Issa Jackson Lee Jeffries Jenkins Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Jolly Jones Jordan Joyce Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Kildee Kilmer Kind Kirkpatrick Kline Kuster Labrador LaMalfa Lamborn Lance Langevin Lankford Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham Latta Lee (CA) Levin Lewis Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Lofgren Long Lowenthal Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Lummis Lynch Maffei Maloney, Carolyn Maloney, Sean Marino Massie Matheson Matsui McAllister McCarthy (CA) McCarthy (NY) McCaul McClintock McCollum McDermott McGovern McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers McNerney Meadows Meehan Meeks Meng Mica Michaud Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Miller, George Moore Moran Mullin Mulvaney Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Nadler Napolitano Neal Negrete McLeod Neugebauer Noem

Nolan Nugent Nunes O'Rourke Olson Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Paulsen Payne Pearce Pelosi Perlmutter Perry Peters (CA) Peters (MI) Peterson Petri Pingree (ME) Pittenger Pitts Pocan Poe (TX) Polis Posey Price (GA) Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reed Reichert Ribble Rice (SC) Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rohrabacher Rokita Ros-Lehtinen Ross Rothfus Roybal-Allard Royce Ruiz Runyan Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salmon Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanford Sarbanes Scalise Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schwartz Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sensenbrenner Serrano Sewell (AL) Shea-Porter Sherman Shuster Simpson Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Southerland Speier Stewart Stockman Stutzman Swalwell (CA) Takano Terry Thompson (CA) Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tierney Tipton Titus Tonko Turner Upton Valadao Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Wagner Walden Walz Waters Waxman Webster (FL) Welch Wenstrup Whitfield Williams Wilson (FL) Wittman Wolf Woodall Yarmuth Yoho Young (AK)