This Means War: Republicans Prep for 2016

At a D.C. conference, the Republicans showed off their new muscles, and took turns kicking sand in the face of that White House weakling while trying not to fight amongst themselves.

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War is "in" again in the nation's capital as Republicans get ready to take control of both chambers of Congress.

Republican senators, representatives, and intellectuals showed off their emboldened, combative spirit on Wednesday at a daylong Foreign Policy Initiative forum held blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Among the targets on the agenda were such imperatives as scrapping the military budget sequester, ramping up sanctions on Iran, arming Ukrainians against the Russians and taking a more aggressive military approach against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.