A brief thought about current events.<\/p>\n
There is a prevalent argument that we should consider.<\/p>\n
It is very disingenuous for the Democrats in the Congress to keep harping about George Bush being the cause of all the maladies that are currently befalling us.\u00a0 It is particularly discouraging to those of us that value freedom to be painted with the brush, “Bush did it” and, by that implication, “you were pro-Bush.”\u00a0 Most “keepers of the republic” were appalled by much of what Bush did and are close to terrified by what Obama is doing.\u00a0 But both of them were (are) just administrating the laws that Congress passes.<\/p>\n
First of all, I was there when we went into the Iraqi war, where were you?\u00a0 George Bush told the Congress that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction.”\u00a0 He then showed them the evidence that he had.\u00a0 After their review of the evidence, Congress voted<\/strong> to attack Saddam, with Hillary and most of the Democrats supporting the resolution.\u00a0 Apparently Congress was just as apprehensive as the President … and just as culpable for what followed.<\/p>\n As a matter of fact, under the Constitution, only Congress can declare war.\u00a0 And the Congress has the purse-strings.\u00a0 With no appropriation, there is no money;\u00a0 with no money, no war (or as we euphemistically now call it “police action” or some other banality.)<\/p>\n Theoretically, for instance, a vote in the Congress of\u00a0 218 to 217 in the House and\u00a0 50 to 50 in the Senate, with the Vice President breaking the tie, could commit our entire nation to nuclear war.\u00a0 That result, obviously supported by only half the populace, could easily kill half or more of us.\u00a0 Majority rule is not always “just” nor is it necessarily correct.<\/p>\n We must re-study our Constitution so that we know who is to do what.\u00a0 We must understand that no President makes law, he or she only suggests and affirms or denies.\u00a0 The Congress is responsible for all laws, participation in war, participation in commerce\u00a0 and spending.<\/p>\n Our forefathers, to a man, feared pure democracy.\u00a0 We owe it to our posterity to understand why.\u00a0 We owe it to ourselves to understand why we have a democratic republic with all its checks and balances and how the tenents of the greatest government ever conceived are being inexorably eroded away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A brief thought about current events. There is a prevalent argument that we should consider. It is very disingenuous for the Democrats in the Congress to keep harping about George Bush being the cause of all the maladies that are … Continue reading