[Pukin Dog]

You are way, way wrong. During war time, Congressional authority is limited to defunding war. They have no other authority after giving a President authorization for hostile activities. Congress can ask whatever they want, but the Administration can refuse to answer. If Congress wants to defund the effort in Iraq, they can reap the whirlwind.

[muawiyah]

Look, Congress can change the rules at any time and it can independently call up the militia.

Think of the Constitutional process in terms of an invasion by a rogue division of Mounties marching on Detroit City.

Assume the President, taking delivery of his new limousine, has been taken captive.

You read the Constitution in that light and it all makes a lot of sense, particularly all the parts about Congress.

Again, the context is the Constitution, not the War Powers Act, and not the spineless weasels we've had as Congresscritters for the last 189 years.