Due to a necessary, possibly life saving, medical procedure two weeks ago, I now have first hand knowledge of pain so intense, so unbearable, so persistently those two stated impacts, that but for the immediate "crash team" intervention, I would have gone catatonic. The human body does seek surcease from torture by retreating to a state aptly called going into shock.
Not to be needlessly graphic, but when you have three muscular urologists, in turn, using all their arm strength to insert an over-sized plastic tube down/up your penis all the way to the bladder, a rational person passes quickly from "denial" to "bargaining". My first literal shout-out to my abusers was to disclose the nuclear launch codes for the President's "football". Then, I gave up the full names and social security numbers for the Dallas Grassy knoll shooters, followed by a full listing of all White House interns who had not had sex with Bill Clinton. Finally, offered my attending physicians a thirty minute interview with the military doctors who had conducted the alien autoptyies at Area 51.
OK, you get my point - a human being tortured will say anything to try to stop the unbearable pain, even the truthful answers to an interrogator's questions, should the abusesee believe that falsehoods will be seen as such by his abuser.
Now, I have not been water boarded since Frat Pledge Hell Week, but can say with confidence that the insertion of a too large object into a too small human cavity is much worse - at least underwater they can't hear you scream.
So, what is my larger point here - no pun intended? Obama/Holder have argued that the CIA operatives who subjected Islamist terrorists to water boarding committed crimes - due to the severity of the "harm/pain" inflicted upon their Gitmo prisoners. Patently, were the degree of physical pain be the determining factor of criminality, I would now be the Star Witness against three Philadelphia doctors. Of course, the physician's intent - to save my life - vitiates any criminal mens rea, making the President's assertion of criminality ludicrous on its face.
Identically, the CIA operatives' intent - to save the lives of innocent Americans - vitiates any criminal mens rea, also making the President's assertion of criminality ludicrous on its face. Now , one or two of the Elite Membership may conclude that I had consented to my mistreatment, thereby making a salient difference in these two transactions as to prosecution exposure. Well, guys and gals, as soon as I realized that the selected catheter tube was so mis-sized, I withdrew my prior implied consent at the top of my lungs, but to no avail as this procedure continued unabated for another forty-five minutes of pure agony. So, my real point here is my shout-out to this President: "Stop the Mendacity."
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Guns and Roses
This is difficult, as it should be I know. The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre constitutes evil of unfathomable depth - a place so dark, I don't want to fathom its reality. Particularly, I have no interest in examining the life of this crazed murderer so that we all can be made to feel guilty because society treated him poorly such that his self esteem was undermined. Instead, my focus is and will remain fixed on how we prevent these obvious Nut Jobs from getting their hands on firearms.
Now, please understand me, so my self esteem is not diminished. While I have never owned a gun myself, I do support the Second Amendment because individual freedom dictates that we the people have the right to effective self-defense against criminals who will always have easy access to illegal weapons. What our nation needs to address is not criminal violence, but this spreading terror of the lone wolf madman blazing his way into eternity.
One sensible societal response to this growing menace is to require a rigorous firearms training program for first time gun permit applicants which will include a psych evaluation for any single white male under the age of 30. Call it racist, call it racial profiling, I just don't care, and refuse to ignore the obvious pattern here. When Columbine, Aurora and now Newtown all involve young disaffected white males, I see a rational need for extra scrutiny for that category of individual who has engaged in the rage of mass murder. Just as the airport screeners for political correctness hassle everyone, including granny and little children, so the true terrorists are able to get on planes with explosive underpants, gun sales to young white Americans need not be banned, but for the children's sake ought to be limited to those individuals who are rational and not dead men walking.
Now, please understand me, so my self esteem is not diminished. While I have never owned a gun myself, I do support the Second Amendment because individual freedom dictates that we the people have the right to effective self-defense against criminals who will always have easy access to illegal weapons. What our nation needs to address is not criminal violence, but this spreading terror of the lone wolf madman blazing his way into eternity.
One sensible societal response to this growing menace is to require a rigorous firearms training program for first time gun permit applicants which will include a psych evaluation for any single white male under the age of 30. Call it racist, call it racial profiling, I just don't care, and refuse to ignore the obvious pattern here. When Columbine, Aurora and now Newtown all involve young disaffected white males, I see a rational need for extra scrutiny for that category of individual who has engaged in the rage of mass murder. Just as the airport screeners for political correctness hassle everyone, including granny and little children, so the true terrorists are able to get on planes with explosive underpants, gun sales to young white Americans need not be banned, but for the children's sake ought to be limited to those individuals who are rational and not dead men walking.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Sunday Sliders, Straight Down the Middle
With the Fiscal Cliff fast approaching, the political leadership is finally getting serious about making sure that the other party is blamed when this train wreck blows up; mixed metaphors used to reflect the surreal feel here. Accordingly, we turn to the real world for succor:
@In NYC, Mayor Bloomburg has proposed that all radio stations broadcasting Christmas Carols in the City do not play songs telling of Santa Claus delivering presents to children by coming down the dwelling's fireplace chimney, saying that boys and girls residing in chimney-less apartments are made to feel left out and inferior.
Susan Rice will be our next Secretary of State, as former Libyan Ambassador Stevens remains unavailable to fill this Cabinet post. Despite the murderers of our four American heroes remaining free to massacre innocents at will again, the political leadership in both parties remains obsessed with who edited Ms. Rice's Sunday Show's talking points, rather than America's obvious impotence in being unable to bring to Justice extremists when anti-video demonstrations get out of hand.
Accordingly, only three conclusions present themselves as believable: (1) the War for fiscal sanity is over, national solvency lost; (2) the War on Christmas is over, Christ lost; (3) The War on Terrorism is over, civilization lost.
Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all mankind!
@In NYC, Mayor Bloomburg has proposed that all radio stations broadcasting Christmas Carols in the City do not play songs telling of Santa Claus delivering presents to children by coming down the dwelling's fireplace chimney, saying that boys and girls residing in chimney-less apartments are made to feel left out and inferior.
Susan Rice will be our next Secretary of State, as former Libyan Ambassador Stevens remains unavailable to fill this Cabinet post. Despite the murderers of our four American heroes remaining free to massacre innocents at will again, the political leadership in both parties remains obsessed with who edited Ms. Rice's Sunday Show's talking points, rather than America's obvious impotence in being unable to bring to Justice extremists when anti-video demonstrations get out of hand.
Accordingly, only three conclusions present themselves as believable: (1) the War for fiscal sanity is over, national solvency lost; (2) the War on Christmas is over, Christ lost; (3) The War on Terrorism is over, civilization lost.
Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all mankind!
Friday, November 23, 2012
Why Susan Rice still doesn't Matter
... and Never will. Let me emphasize at the very outset that I believe that Ms. Rice is fully qualified to serve our great Nation as Secretary of State in the Second Obama Term. Why you ask? To answer this inquiry, we'll look at the qualifications of just one of her predecessors, her unrelated name sake, Condi Rice. (I'm not close to Condi, but use her nic name, as I can't spell Condelleiza - see!) Now, back to my comparison - as President Bush's National Security Advisor in 2001, Condi Rice was absolutely clueless about Osama Bin Laden and Al Quida's terrorist capabilities and intentions for a deadly assault on our country. Indeed, after the World Trade Center attack, Condi proclaimed that no one in the Administration, herself included, had envisioned the possibility of commercial airliners being used as weapons. Really? I guess that Professor Rice never heard of the WWII Pacific Theatre of combat in which hundreds of young Jap pilots, sincerely believing that committing suicide by flying their planes into our warships guaranteed them an eternity in Heaven, did so to great effect, but just one time each. Yet, despite this egregious admission of historic ignorance, Professor Rice went on to serve as a heralded Sec. of State in the Bush Second Term, credited with assembling the Coalition of the Willing to topple the Butcher of Bagdad.
So, what's my beef with Susan Rice, you again ask? Its the absence of beef that I find blame worthy. Where was the intellectual integrity and rigorous preparation for her appearance on all five Sunday News shows in which she spoke to the entire nation about a spontaneous demonstration that was followed-up by "opportunist extremists" attacking the Benghazi consulate and CIA Annex a mile distant. Of course, that narrative was false. Were Ms. Rice to have asked anyone these questions, President Obama included: who observed this demonstration at the consulate, asked to see the photographs thereof, asked to read the cables from the State Department officials in Benghazi describing the demonstration, she would have been informed that none of these items ever existed, because no demonstrators ever existed in Benghazi. Therefore, it's obvious that Ms. Rice merely towed the party line, which is the one essential qualification to be a valuable and heralded Secretary of State in any Administration.
In previous blog Posts, I have postulated that any former President, except Jimmy Carter, would have fired, as soon as informed of the names of his subordinates, those Administration officials responsible for the DOJ criminal gun running to Mexico's drug cartels. Similarly, what President allows his subordinates to put out a false narrative of a non-existent demonstration, when our Intelligence Community spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year to know the actual facts on the ground? That level of incompetence would be a firing offense for the Director of the CIA on Day One had the President actually have been so misinformed. He wasn't.
Accordingly, all the machinations of the Republicans on Fox News whining about who in the White House changed the CIA talking points by deleting the references to terrorists and substituting "extremists" are as clueless as Condi Rice. Forget the semantics, there are three unforgivable scandals here, none of which involve wordsmithing: (1) allowing our Ambassador to go into a terrorist controlled area unprotected on the deadliest terrorist day of each year - 9/11; (2) not sending military forces to his rescue for over seventeen hours; and (3) to this very day, months later, having brought not one terrorist, nor even a single street demonstrator, to justice for these heinous murders. I find Susan Rice to be uniquely qualified to be a major figurine in such an accomplished Administration.
So, what's my beef with Susan Rice, you again ask? Its the absence of beef that I find blame worthy. Where was the intellectual integrity and rigorous preparation for her appearance on all five Sunday News shows in which she spoke to the entire nation about a spontaneous demonstration that was followed-up by "opportunist extremists" attacking the Benghazi consulate and CIA Annex a mile distant. Of course, that narrative was false. Were Ms. Rice to have asked anyone these questions, President Obama included: who observed this demonstration at the consulate, asked to see the photographs thereof, asked to read the cables from the State Department officials in Benghazi describing the demonstration, she would have been informed that none of these items ever existed, because no demonstrators ever existed in Benghazi. Therefore, it's obvious that Ms. Rice merely towed the party line, which is the one essential qualification to be a valuable and heralded Secretary of State in any Administration.
In previous blog Posts, I have postulated that any former President, except Jimmy Carter, would have fired, as soon as informed of the names of his subordinates, those Administration officials responsible for the DOJ criminal gun running to Mexico's drug cartels. Similarly, what President allows his subordinates to put out a false narrative of a non-existent demonstration, when our Intelligence Community spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year to know the actual facts on the ground? That level of incompetence would be a firing offense for the Director of the CIA on Day One had the President actually have been so misinformed. He wasn't.
Accordingly, all the machinations of the Republicans on Fox News whining about who in the White House changed the CIA talking points by deleting the references to terrorists and substituting "extremists" are as clueless as Condi Rice. Forget the semantics, there are three unforgivable scandals here, none of which involve wordsmithing: (1) allowing our Ambassador to go into a terrorist controlled area unprotected on the deadliest terrorist day of each year - 9/11; (2) not sending military forces to his rescue for over seventeen hours; and (3) to this very day, months later, having brought not one terrorist, nor even a single street demonstrator, to justice for these heinous murders. I find Susan Rice to be uniquely qualified to be a major figurine in such an accomplished Administration.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Why Bill Plante Still Matters
The current national political discourse reminds me, not of Watergate, but of the Ronald Reagan Era Iran-Contra debacle. When, in the early days of President Reagan's second term, Attorney General Ed Meese took the podium in the White House Press Room, he announced to the utter disbelief of the assembled media reps that, without the knowledge or approval of the President, an obscure retired Marine, Oliver North, working for the National Security Council in the White House basement, had himself acquired and sold large quantities of anti-aircraft missiles to America's sworn enemy, Iran. Then, again by himself, Colonel North took the millions in his illegal gun running profits and gave it to armed rebels fighting a communist government in Central America.
When the Attorney General concluded his defense of President Reagan by emphasizing the "rogue" nature of this National Security Council operation over three continents involving tens of millions worth of military assets, dozens of Air Force cargo planes and cakes with keys, the WH Press Room erupted in outrage. One of the most angry Patriots demanding accountability from the President was the CBS Chief White House Correspondent, Bill Plante, who literally shouted at Meese: "If the President didn't know, then WHY DIDN'T HE? In 1980's America, the nation's media, indeed the entire national political establishment, unequivocally rejected the Sargeant Schultze: "I know Nothing" stance of Meese.
Thirty years later, first in the "Fast and Furious" DOJ gun running criminal conspiracy, and now with the Benghazi/Petraesis/Allen scandals, where is Bill Plante and the national clammer that our President know what his subordinates are doing when hundreds, if not thousands, of Mexican innocents, a American Ambassador and three American heroes are dead.
When the CIA Director is sleeping around, the General Officer running the Afghan war is spending more time e-mailing a woman not his wife than he is in the trenches, keeping these matters from the President - because neither rose to the level of a national security risk, is OK. WHAT? - the top national security official makes himself liable to blackmail by Iran, China, Russia, even France, and the media accepts Holder's nonsense that we didn't tell Obama because Pretraesis' dalliance was merely a personal indiscretion? That is a national disgrace. Now, I know that Bill Plante still is not dead. Therefore, I expect he and every American Patriot to demand better. The traditional America of accountability following responsibility must be preserved in the 21st Century.
When the Attorney General concluded his defense of President Reagan by emphasizing the "rogue" nature of this National Security Council operation over three continents involving tens of millions worth of military assets, dozens of Air Force cargo planes and cakes with keys, the WH Press Room erupted in outrage. One of the most angry Patriots demanding accountability from the President was the CBS Chief White House Correspondent, Bill Plante, who literally shouted at Meese: "If the President didn't know, then WHY DIDN'T HE? In 1980's America, the nation's media, indeed the entire national political establishment, unequivocally rejected the Sargeant Schultze: "I know Nothing" stance of Meese.
Thirty years later, first in the "Fast and Furious" DOJ gun running criminal conspiracy, and now with the Benghazi/Petraesis/Allen scandals, where is Bill Plante and the national clammer that our President know what his subordinates are doing when hundreds, if not thousands, of Mexican innocents, a American Ambassador and three American heroes are dead.
When the CIA Director is sleeping around, the General Officer running the Afghan war is spending more time e-mailing a woman not his wife than he is in the trenches, keeping these matters from the President - because neither rose to the level of a national security risk, is OK. WHAT? - the top national security official makes himself liable to blackmail by Iran, China, Russia, even France, and the media accepts Holder's nonsense that we didn't tell Obama because Pretraesis' dalliance was merely a personal indiscretion? That is a national disgrace. Now, I know that Bill Plante still is not dead. Therefore, I expect he and every American Patriot to demand better. The traditional America of accountability following responsibility must be preserved in the 21st Century.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Why Winston Churchill still Matters
As Does Ms. Charlene Lamb
Wow, This was definitely the Week that Was - we got to see all levels of government at work and play. First, Superstorm Sandy pummels the northeast Big Time. Governor Chris Christy, the "Insultinator", who other than John Sununu, gave us the best rips on President Obama's lack of leadership skills, this week kissed up to the President so big time that not only did he get a brown nose, his freikin head now looks like a over-sized Milk Dud. Go figure!
In NYC, Mayor Nanny-State, who sees the role of government to be to limit the public's right to drink soda in one large cup (while allowing consumers to purchase simultaneously a six pack or more of almost as large soda containers, so not real reduction in calorie intake, just additional expense and difficulty in carrying multiple cups) decided to ignore the well being of millions of New Yorkers - in jeopardy of starving and freezing to death in the dark - so he could watch some tens of thousands of runners jog around the City while police and utility assets catered to their needs. Go figure!
So you ask, where does Ms. Charlene Lamb fit into this morass of politicians acting stupidly? Squarely at the Apex of arrogant refusal to be honest, candid and truthful, regrettably.
As an Elite Member, you are knowledgeable big time, as well as being fully aware of my disdain for this Chief Executive, who will not hold subordinates accountable for their egregious mis-judgments that literally cause the deaths of innocents. So, when Ms. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomat Security, told us all in sworn testimony before the Congress that the security assets in Benghazi were sufficient despite the murderous attack by dozens of terrorists armed with heavy weapons, including multiple mortars, she should have been shown the door immediately. Can you imagine the reactions of the American diplomats across the world upon hearing that a cerifiably insane woman is still in charge of guarding their very lives in the aftermath of Benghazi?
Hey, at least the Commander-in-Chief is consistent: he didn't fire anyone in his Administration after learning of the death of Brian Terry in the Fast & Furious scandal; hell, he didn't have the Army stop paying Major Hasan his full six figure salary after he murdered 14 fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood; so, it appears that Ms. Lamb's four bumps in the road of the Arab Spring, while not optimal, were not a big deal for her continued career of government service. Hell fire, I defy any Elite Member to name a single governmental official that this President has fired in his four years of executive government leadership.
Well, this Tuesday, November 6th, we the American people can prove Winston Churhill right by confirming that Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others, by voting to fire the current occuppant of 1600 Pennslyvania Avenue, and replace him with new tenants for the next four years. As citizens, we have a moral obligation to finally hold someone in the Obama Administration accountable for the last four years, and if not Charlene Lamb, then it should be Barry himself. Just vote.
Wow, This was definitely the Week that Was - we got to see all levels of government at work and play. First, Superstorm Sandy pummels the northeast Big Time. Governor Chris Christy, the "Insultinator", who other than John Sununu, gave us the best rips on President Obama's lack of leadership skills, this week kissed up to the President so big time that not only did he get a brown nose, his freikin head now looks like a over-sized Milk Dud. Go figure!
In NYC, Mayor Nanny-State, who sees the role of government to be to limit the public's right to drink soda in one large cup (while allowing consumers to purchase simultaneously a six pack or more of almost as large soda containers, so not real reduction in calorie intake, just additional expense and difficulty in carrying multiple cups) decided to ignore the well being of millions of New Yorkers - in jeopardy of starving and freezing to death in the dark - so he could watch some tens of thousands of runners jog around the City while police and utility assets catered to their needs. Go figure!
So you ask, where does Ms. Charlene Lamb fit into this morass of politicians acting stupidly? Squarely at the Apex of arrogant refusal to be honest, candid and truthful, regrettably.
As an Elite Member, you are knowledgeable big time, as well as being fully aware of my disdain for this Chief Executive, who will not hold subordinates accountable for their egregious mis-judgments that literally cause the deaths of innocents. So, when Ms. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomat Security, told us all in sworn testimony before the Congress that the security assets in Benghazi were sufficient despite the murderous attack by dozens of terrorists armed with heavy weapons, including multiple mortars, she should have been shown the door immediately. Can you imagine the reactions of the American diplomats across the world upon hearing that a cerifiably insane woman is still in charge of guarding their very lives in the aftermath of Benghazi?
Hey, at least the Commander-in-Chief is consistent: he didn't fire anyone in his Administration after learning of the death of Brian Terry in the Fast & Furious scandal; hell, he didn't have the Army stop paying Major Hasan his full six figure salary after he murdered 14 fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood; so, it appears that Ms. Lamb's four bumps in the road of the Arab Spring, while not optimal, were not a big deal for her continued career of government service. Hell fire, I defy any Elite Member to name a single governmental official that this President has fired in his four years of executive government leadership.
Well, this Tuesday, November 6th, we the American people can prove Winston Churhill right by confirming that Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others, by voting to fire the current occuppant of 1600 Pennslyvania Avenue, and replace him with new tenants for the next four years. As citizens, we have a moral obligation to finally hold someone in the Obama Administration accountable for the last four years, and if not Charlene Lamb, then it should be Barry himself. Just vote.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Redlining the Constitution
In the first Debate, both President Obama and Governor Romney stated that the first obligation of the United States President, as Commander-in-Chief, is the preservation of the nation's security from foreign attacks. Well, yes and an emphatic no - the Constitution does indeed appoint the nation's President as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, but reserves to the Congress the exclusive authority to unleash the "dogs of war". Only the Congress can authorize the President to don his CinC hat and direct the Army, Navy and Air Force in foreign combat that could lead to victory over the nation's enemy, or our destruction, should the President fail in the exercise of these most difficult executive responsibilities. Art. 1; Section 8.
This is not some arcane proposition relevant only to the "Dead Scholars Society", but absolutely timely to the conduct of the upcoming second debate on Foreign Policy, the election on November 6th, and the conduct of the 48th President in his first months in office, commencing January 2013. Everyone agrees that Iran - with its goal of the destruction of Israel, and the United States as well, in seeking to destroy the "Great Satan" so that the eternal reign of Allah world-wide can finally be established - constitutes an existential threat to our national security, should they give nuclear bombs to terrorists in suitcases, or even bigger packages. Accordingly, how the two candidates articulate their policy approaches to this national security challenge facing America should be topics one. two and three for this second debate.
To date, this political discussion over the last two years has been dominated by a disregard for the Constitutional limitations on Presidential power. Even our most staunch ally, Israel, with an identical commitment to the Rule of Law, demands that President Obama announce himself what bomb building stage Iran needs to achieve in order for the United States to unleash hell on Iran, and bomb that nation's territory. Senator Schummer of New York, who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, recently stated that upon his re-election, President Obama will be far more likely to attack Iran than would be a President Romney. Absolutely incredible - can anyone envision a sitting Senator announcing to our nation's deadly enemy that a future President will not fight to stop their bomb making, and doing so for no purpose other than partisan advantage in the upcoming election. Giving an enemy assurance of safety may not exactly constitute treason, as in giving "Aid and Comfort" to that enemy, but telling the Iranians that a President Romney will allow them to get a nuclear weapon should disqualify him for holding high office when he faces the electorate at his next election.
Senator Schummer's announcement that the decision to attack Iran's bomb making facilities is a act or power given solely to the nation's Chief Executive - without the concurrence of the people United States, acting through their elected Congress - is even more outrageous, indeed it is an impeachable offense for a Senator to abdicate this most crucial of Congressional powers. A nation of 300 million citizens can not Constitutionally be put on a path to possibly total destruction by going to War on the judgment of just one man, or some day, one woman. Exercising the Power of National Life or Death is the ultimate governmental responsibility, and for that very reason, our Constitution authorizes that decision is to be made only by all of us together through our elected representatives - obviously, when we all will literally have our skin the the game, we all get to decide whether to risk burning that skin to a cinder. Should America continue as a nation of laws, and not the rule of (a single) man, we must all demand that the Congress just do it job, whoever is elected our next President.
This is not some arcane proposition relevant only to the "Dead Scholars Society", but absolutely timely to the conduct of the upcoming second debate on Foreign Policy, the election on November 6th, and the conduct of the 48th President in his first months in office, commencing January 2013. Everyone agrees that Iran - with its goal of the destruction of Israel, and the United States as well, in seeking to destroy the "Great Satan" so that the eternal reign of Allah world-wide can finally be established - constitutes an existential threat to our national security, should they give nuclear bombs to terrorists in suitcases, or even bigger packages. Accordingly, how the two candidates articulate their policy approaches to this national security challenge facing America should be topics one. two and three for this second debate.
To date, this political discussion over the last two years has been dominated by a disregard for the Constitutional limitations on Presidential power. Even our most staunch ally, Israel, with an identical commitment to the Rule of Law, demands that President Obama announce himself what bomb building stage Iran needs to achieve in order for the United States to unleash hell on Iran, and bomb that nation's territory. Senator Schummer of New York, who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution, recently stated that upon his re-election, President Obama will be far more likely to attack Iran than would be a President Romney. Absolutely incredible - can anyone envision a sitting Senator announcing to our nation's deadly enemy that a future President will not fight to stop their bomb making, and doing so for no purpose other than partisan advantage in the upcoming election. Giving an enemy assurance of safety may not exactly constitute treason, as in giving "Aid and Comfort" to that enemy, but telling the Iranians that a President Romney will allow them to get a nuclear weapon should disqualify him for holding high office when he faces the electorate at his next election.
Senator Schummer's announcement that the decision to attack Iran's bomb making facilities is a act or power given solely to the nation's Chief Executive - without the concurrence of the people United States, acting through their elected Congress - is even more outrageous, indeed it is an impeachable offense for a Senator to abdicate this most crucial of Congressional powers. A nation of 300 million citizens can not Constitutionally be put on a path to possibly total destruction by going to War on the judgment of just one man, or some day, one woman. Exercising the Power of National Life or Death is the ultimate governmental responsibility, and for that very reason, our Constitution authorizes that decision is to be made only by all of us together through our elected representatives - obviously, when we all will literally have our skin the the game, we all get to decide whether to risk burning that skin to a cinder. Should America continue as a nation of laws, and not the rule of (a single) man, we must all demand that the Congress just do it job, whoever is elected our next President.
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