POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Biden’s Originalism

Via The Blaze comes the story of how Joe Biden, citing among other authorities the Federalist Papers, argued that only Congress had the power to authorize war, and that for the Executive to do so unilaterally was monarchical. He was able to make this assertion in light of his reading of the clear intention of the Framers, even though their language is probably like more than a hundred years old!!!

And I quite agree with him.

At one time, Obama seems to have agreed with him as well, though times have apparently changed now that FLOTUS can once again be proud to be an American.

Mind you, that doesn't mean that I'm against bombing the crap out of Gaddafi's war materiel. We've seen what sanctions do, when our allies turn a blind eye to backdoor profiteering. On the other hand, Obama sat around for a couple of weeks issuing toothless platitudes when he could have been discussing matters with his Cabinet and Congress, before his higglety-pigglety decision to take action. Instead, Ad Hoc Man waited till the last minute, called an emergency session of his advisers, dropped off a quick note to the legislative types, gave the green light to the military, and flew to Rio to let his melatonin resonate, and perhaps do a little cliff diving for Wide World of Sports.

UPDATE: Gabriel Malor on same.

So this is yet another end run around Congress, which is what he's been doing since well before the GOP took back the House. Only this is far worse than merely avoiding Congress on Yucca Mountain, offshore drilling, net neutrality, card check, and cap and trade. The President has committed the United States to war and placed Service Members in danger without constitutionally-required authority to do so.

Waging war in violation of the U.S. Constitution sounds like a High Crime to me. So I'd like someone to explain to me why we shouldn't be talking about impeachment right now.

And it seems that we dodged a bullet. Two US airmen ejected from an F-15 over Libya. Fortunately, both were recovered, it seems.

They're saying mechanical malfunction, but we'll probably see a couple of Libyan army types dancing on the wreckage with their rifles in an hour or two.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

Website - More Posts