Democrat's assault on the Constitution

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

For all the caterwauling from the left about W's continual disregard for the US Constitution in his relentless pursuit of an Imperial Presidency, the Democrats in both houses of our Parliament of Whores seem blissfully unaware of it's division of war-making powers. A couple of the leading lights in the Senate are considering an attempt to usurp Presidential authority and go ahead and run the war from Capitol Hill. Where is Andrew Jackson to slap them with a glove and call them out for a duel?

Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), who chairs the Armed Services Committee, said Democratic senators would probably seek to capitalize on wavering Republicans to limit the "wide-open authorization" Congress gave Bush in 2002.

"We will be looking at a modification of that authorization in order to limit the mission of American troops to a support mission instead of a combat mission, and that is very different from cutting off funds," said Levin, D-Mich.

Absolutely Carl, you only want to cut off funds for any missions that might lead to victory, but you want to make sure you fund the defeat. Remarkably calculating and extremely cold-blooded as you leave enough troops there to manage the defeat and any lives lost only prove your position that it was a lost cause.

Then we have one of the intellectual featherweights of our time Joe Biden.

Sen. Joe Biden, a 2008 presidential candidate who leads the foreign relations panel, said the 2002 authorization should be repealed to restate the president's authority and clarify the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq.

"I've been working with some of my colleagues to try to convince them that that's the way to go ... make it clear that the purpose that he has troops in there is to, in fact, protect against al-Qaida gaining chunks of territory, training the Iraqi forces, force protection and for our forces," said Biden, D-Del.

You know what Joe, those decisions seem remarkably similar to the ones a commander makes. If you want to make those kind of decisions you should get elected President. Oh wait you've interviewed for that job before and been laughed off the stage, are you seriously considering embarrassing yourself again? OK kids take your seats and let's review the source documents here.

Congress' Powers from Article One (corrected on tip fm reader/blogger Army Lawyer)

    To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

    To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

    To provide and maintain a navy;

    To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

    To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

    To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

You will excuse me if I don't see anything in there about determining specific missions for an expeditionary force engaged in an authorized war. The Founders were wise enough to know that no war could be successfully prosecuted by a committee, especially a committee of Congress. They vested control over all operation of the military in the President.

Executive Powers from Article Two

    The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States

There is no clause stating that this will be in conjunction and coordination or even at the advice of whichever collection of swine happens to control Congress. Nor does it state that the President must change his course as the mood of the populace shifts. Moods are for cattle, and the Founders anticipated the lack of the people and their elected representatives to have the resolve to fight a war. That burden rightly rests on the Commander in Chief who can take or ignore the advice of Congress and the mood of the people.

If the Dems continue to attempt to act as an Imperial legislature they risk losing the tentative common ground some voters share with them. There is fairly widespread discontent about the war, there is nowhere near the support for a full-fledged race toward defeat, let alone one done in open defiance of our Constitution.

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Democrat's assault on the Constitution

For all the caterwauling from the left about W's continual disregard for the US Constitution in his relentless pursuit of an Imperial Presidency, the Democrats in both houses of our Parliament of Whores seem blissfully unaware of it's division of war-making powers. A couple of the leading lights in the Senate are considering an attempt to usurp Presidential authority and go ahead and run the war from Capitol Hill. Where is Andrew Jackson to slap them with a glove and call them out for a duel?

Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), who chairs the Armed Services Committee, said Democratic senators would probably seek to capitalize on wavering Republicans to limit the "wide-open authorization" Congress gave Bush in 2002.

"We will be looking at a modification of that authorization in order to limit the mission of American troops to a support mission instead of a combat mission, and that is very different from cutting off funds," said Levin, D-Mich.

Absolutely Carl, you only want to cut off funds for any missions that might lead to victory, but you want to make sure you fund the defeat. Remarkably calculating and extremely cold-blooded as you leave enough troops there to manage the defeat and any lives lost only prove your position that it was a lost cause.

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