Posted on 07/25/2015 6:29:59 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
By lying and withholding information about the agreement, he gives aid and comfort to America’s enemy. The president “must certainly be punishable for giving false information to the Senate.” One can imagine hearing such counsel from a contemporary United States senator on the receiving end of President Obama’s “full disclosure” of the nuclear deal with Iran. But the admonition actually came from James Iredell, a champion of the Constitution’s ratification, who was later appointed to the Supreme Court by President George Washington. Iredell was addressing the obligations the new Constitution imposed on the president in the arena of international affairs. Notwithstanding the chief executive’s broad powers to “regulate all intercourse with foreign powers,” it would be the president’s “duty to impart to the Senate every material intelligence he receives.” Indeed, among the most egregious offenses a president could commit would be fraudulently inducing senators “to enter into measures injurious to their country, and which they would not have consented to had the true state of things been disclosed to them.”
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This lying Congress?
The one that launched the IRS after its own voters?
The one that passes SECRET bills without reading them?
This Congress will set up concentration camps
to Exterminate Americans before it holds the
unvetted, undocumented, Indonesian-without a SS#,
accountable.
The chances that Congress will hold him accountable for anything is about the same as Nancy Pelosi saying she is going conservative or Hitlery giving a speech without lying once.
So far they haven’t, and they won’t.
When a country’s president is its own enemy you got really serious problems
“The Constitution forbids providing aid and comfort to America’s enemies. And the Framers’ notion that a president would be punishable for deceiving Congress regarding the conduct of foreign affairs meant that lawmakers would be obliged to use their constitutional powers to protect the United States — not merely shriek on cable television as if they were powerless spectators. Well?”
McCarthy is so consistently good, right and cogent.
But does anyone (besides me) listen to him?
His background bespeaks oodles of knowledge and experience, and he deserves to be heeded, but it seems more often than not that that he is derisively treated like a “voice crying out in the wilderness”.
Alas, America. You were warned.
This lying Congress?
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Don’t forget to vote GOP in 2016. With control of both houses they will be able to stop the liberal agenda. /sarc
"Concentration camps" are so 20th century, Diogenesis. You need to use the proper term. Re-patriotization Education Day Spa (REDS). We can talk more about it when we are sent there. Let's meet under the Diversity Pavilion or the Social Justice Canteen.
This is the BOHICA congress with Boehner and McConnell fighting over who can bend over fastest!
The only consequence possible for Obama, IMHO, is if he is tried as a private citizen once he leaves office. I’d love to see ALL of Obama Inc, including Hillary, handcuffed and thrown in prison.
Powerless spectators. What is this, the Roman Colosseum, where the action in the arena was almost entirely at the whim of Caesar, and the throng only looked upon the carnage as it happened?
Do we have to depend on the Praetorian Guard for EVERYTHING?
They are not necessarily politically reliable. Consider the fate of Caligula.
McChuckles and Bonehead will sit back and grunt and fart unless someone else takes the reigns from those two turds.
Don’t hold your breath.
Why? What HASN’T Barky lied about? It’s a much shorter list.
Plain and simple, you can tell Barky is lying whenever his lips are moving.
It sickens me to feel this way about the POTUS!
Mark
Dream on, NR. Congress is complicit in the deal.
This president continues to prove his ineptness and incompetence, motivated by totalitarian ambitions, and Congress continues to waffle and dither.
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