tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post2912510027362144982..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Community Organizer in Chief & Sidekick Muttley Doing FineRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-76792738765837919192009-11-24T13:12:35.707-05:002009-11-24T13:12:35.707-05:00@Kn@ppster,
Great rebuttal, a bi-partisan indictme...@Kn@ppster,<br />Great rebuttal, a bi-partisan indictment of everything that's gone on since the War Powers Resolution of 1973, no, the Korean...whatever-it-was.<br /><br />Past the sophistries, though, there is the existential fact of people planning protest against these and the other decadent mental gymnastics that have corrupted our government.smitty1ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559464300318848169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-42156414282331354732009-11-24T10:38:41.848-05:002009-11-24T10:38:41.848-05:00"the plan to bring the alleged 9/11 terrorist..."the plan to bring the <b>alleged</b> 9/11 terrorist conspirators to trial in New York City."<br /><br />There. Fixed that for ya.<br /><br />"He irresponsibly misinterprets the Law of War for political purposes"<br /><br />The "Law of War" is irrelevant. Congress hasn't declared war since 1941, that war ended long ago, and none of the alleged conspirators are German or Japanese in any case.<br /><br />In the instant case, Congress has not only not declared war, but has voted "no" when offered declarations of war for its consideration, and has included "this is NOT a declaration of war" language in its "authorizations to use force."<br /><br />Furthermore, the timeframes of prospective casus belli <em>for</em> a declaration of war precede Barack Obama's time in the US Senate, let alone his time in the White House, and it was a <b>Republican</b> House majority and (within one seat in either direction at any given time) Senate plurality/majority which chose to refrain from declaring, nay, <em>refuse in the face of proffered legislation to declare</em>, war.<br /><br />In other words, from a legal standpoint, the US is plainly, simply and indisputably <em>not at war</em>, period -- and it's not at war because Republicans demanded that it not be at war.<br /><br />Why should Barack Obama break the law now in order to give Republicans what they could have had for the asking then, but refused to take even when it was shoved at them?Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-45460682136297118052009-11-24T09:46:19.663-05:002009-11-24T09:46:19.663-05:00This is some of the best dictionizing I've see...This is some of the best dictionizing I've seen in a while. Asshattery, un-b0rking, tubey-webs, bogosity (possibly a real word?). A true tour de force, Smitty, Congrats.alwaysfireduphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13092678654095662939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-54331656058787741572009-11-24T08:27:29.925-05:002009-11-24T08:27:29.925-05:00"Un-borking our country"?
I thought we ..."Un-borking our country"?<br /><br />I thought we *wanted* to Bork the country. It's what Reagan would have wanted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com