Shout! Let us loudly praise two congressmen from opposite ends of the American political divide.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced a resolution to prohibit the president from using military force against Iran without congressional approval. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced a companion resolution in the Senate, which was blocked, largely on party lines, on Friday.

The three are standing tall, but they are also standing alone.

Not a single House Republican joined Massie in defending the Constitution. Khanna brought along a few Democrats, including progressive star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), to defend the nation’s founding document, its cornerstone, which says that only Congress has the authority to start a war.

“The Constitution,” Massie shouted to covered ears in the cowering Congress, “does not permit the executive branch to unilaterally commit an act of war against a sovereign nation that hasn’t attacked the United States. Congress has the sole power to declare war against Iran. The ongoing war between Israel and Iran is not our war. Even if it were, Congress must decide such matters, according to our Constitution.”

And here is Khanna with a similarly lonely shout in the night, voicing the same truth to his caucus of congressional Democrats: “The American people do not want to be dragged into another disastrous........

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