From Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution:

“He {the President} shall have toshiba 1800 battery,toshiba 4000 battery power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur…”

But we the people are more at fault than any political party or any of our representatives in the Congress. When it comes to organizing to assert our combined voices we find that we have no workable understanding of our role (and duty) in a republic such as ours and that if we did understand our role we wouldn’t be able to exercise it because we are out of condition–our skills as self-governing persons have atrophied. Obama has agitated us to move again, flex our minds, learn, and there is hope that we can achieve some growth as citizens now.

Why did we permit the Supreme Court to replace the electoral college? Was Bush’s selection as the 43rd president constitutional?

Billy: “I want to stay up late.”

Mother: “No.”

Billy: “But Jason’s Mom lets him stay up late every night.”

Mother: “Just because Jason’s Mom lets him stay up late doesn’t mean I have to.”

Dana Perino as nothing but a cypher – she’s like a robot regurgitating what she’s been told. She has no independent thoughts of her own, and doesn’t even know what the words she spouts mean. One day it’ll be discovered that, like Bush in the debates 4 years ago, she’s got a device in her ear and someone else is telling her what to say. Just to look at her, one can tell she has no mind, no soul and no will of her own. A typical Bushie.

I agree. I think she looks tired and brow beaten.

What I don’t understand is why Congress is not calling Bush on the carpet for this?? To do absolutely nothing at all is even worse than trying and failing. At least you could say you tried. But it would be on record who blocked the appropriate action that needs to be taken.

At least Senator Kennedy pointed out that is the way it has always been done.

Some want to wait until we bomb Iran. Too late–we’ll be in WWIII. Or is it IV or V? We’ll all be dead or trying to find clean water and food by then.

Bush has outmanuveured Congress (Dems), and they’ve let him get away with it. Democrats refuse to assert their power and confront his abuses. For whatever reason. They just won’t do it.

When one branch does what it wants and the other branches do nothing, that’s passive agreement. Our problem is this Congress. Or more precisely, the individual Dems that are in office. We trusted these politicians, we put them into power, and we can’t seem to get them to do what we put them into office to do.

Joe Biden talks a good game, but Joe Biden (and just about every other career Democrat in Washington) has been duped by the Bush Administration or been in league with the Bush Administration at every single turn. They wring their hands, but that’s all they do. Democrats refuse to confront this situation with Bush. They ALL need to be replaced.

There is probably not a farthing’s worth of difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, policy-wise. To date, Obama’s as non-populist, right-of-center as Hillary Clinton. Her only left-wing efforts are on abortion. Everything else with her has been just talk. She talks a good game on gay rights, but let’s not forget that Bill Clinton signed DOMA, and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was a chicken-hearted caving in to Repubs. In Obama’s favor is that he’s not the lying Hillary. We can hope that once in the White House, he would veer left, but we hoped Bill Clinton would, too.

The only exit strategy for getting out of Iraq is GETTING OUT OF IRAQ. You just do it. You put one boot in front of the other and you walk. Short of that, we will be there forever, drawn in to a wider war with Iran, which I expect Bush will be starting any day now. I think that’s what Hillary Clinton knows and is waiting for, to make that her case to superdelegates – “I’ll have a former President guiding me through a war, while Obama would be doing it on his own.”

All of these politicians are just waiting for this election to be over, so they can go back to business as usual: NOT having to answer to their constituents until the next campaign cycle begins anew and they can spin and stonewall their way through it again.

In the end, it will fall to us, the people, to get active in our democracy, active in the Democratic Party, clear the DLC out, replace those in office, and make the policies we want for ourselves. They get away with it because they think we won’t do it. Are they correct?

–Kibitzer

From Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution:

“He {the President} shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur…”

No, sir, it does not. I checked. First Amendment.

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

This is the one that this President ignores the most. It is the Congress, not the President, who decides the rules under which our military forces willoperate. His role as Commander-in-Chief is to command the troops in accordance with the rules established by Congress. He does not have the constitutional authority to override Congress. He might think he does, thanks to allegedly-carbon-based-life-forms such as John Yoo, but he most certainly does not.