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by TarheelDem
Also in orange.
President Bush has given Congress a conundrum: how to exert oversight on a President who has publicly declared that he does not have to listen to Congress on matters of national security. Congress can cut off funding he says, but he as the "unitary executive" can reprogram funds from other places because it his responsibility and he knows best how to protect the American people -- and Congress doesn't. So what does the power of the purse actually mean? Does not the President control the Department of the Treasury, and cannot he instruct them to keep on writing checks for whatever he wants them to as long as it falls under the banner of national security? The other side of this dilemma is the fact that cutting funds for troops already deployed into a war zone puts the lives of those troops in danger, and the President will use that fact to argue that the Congress is not only against the troops but is actually harming the people they are trying to protect from his insanity. So what is to be done? My proposal: De-fund the deciders, not the troops. But how? Read more... (1075 words in story) by TarheelDem
(Cross-posted at Booman Tribute and Daily Kos)
Robert Scheer at Liberal Oasis says about the increasing calls for impeachment:
Two weeks ago, LiberalOasis criticized Dems for failing to developing a party policy for Iraq that makes clear how their foreign policy goals dramatically differ from the Republicans.
Sadly, it's not just those in the Beltway that don't have a unified view. Grassroots liberals appear to have the same problem. Everyone has an opinion about what can (or can't) be done in Iraq, and it's not coalescing into a singular vision. This is a debilitating problem and it won't be solved quickly. And if a push for impeachment, or any other tactic, is to have any prayer of reframing the debate and changing public opinion, the problem must be solved. Read more... (2720 words in story) |
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