Daschle: Congress Denied Bush War Powers in U.S.

Washington Post ^ | December 23, 2005 | Barton Gellman

[M Kehoe]

If you take away his telephone directories, little tommy D couldn't reach the microphone to give his little rant.

5.56mm

[concretebob]

Had it not been for those brave souls on Flight 93, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion, or much of anything else.
I wonder how they would have reacted if that 767 had made it to the Capitol Building?

[concretebob]

Well, I have to get ready to make the trek to DC and Walter Reed..
I'm just about PO'd enough to make this Christams Freep of the code pink a$$holes on Georgia Ave an event to remember.

Everyone have FoxNews on tonite..9 PM..I ain't promising anything, but the word is Hannity will be there..
Might be worth a DVD or TVO or DVR..

Ya'll have a Merry Christmas, God's Blessings on everyone..especially JimRob and our brave soldiers everywhere

AAR will be up on Saturday, if I'm not in jail.

[cwb]

Amazing, isn't it. Little Tommy is telling us that just days after we suffered the worst attack on American soil that he didn't want to give the President the power to monitor enemies within this country. This despite the fact that the 9/11 attack was carried out by terrorists within this country, using our own resources.

Yet, even with this admission I don't recall ANY objection by these same liberals when the president started shutting down US-based Islamic charities, which obviously required some kind of domestic surveillance to gather evidence of their collaboration with our enemies. These people are the biggest, most dangerous frauds I've ever seen.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Tom Dashle, rewriting history. 'Nuff said.

[BigSkyFreeper]

No, he has been kicked out of South Dakota furthering his humiliation.

Yeah, South Dakota disowned their "favorite son", he's an embarrassment to the good people of that state.

[Phsstpok]

the Bush administration made no public claim of new authority until news accounts disclosed the secret NSA operation

THAT'S BECAUSE IT WAS A SECRET!

It's also because it wasn't new. The authority the Bush administration exercised is based on Article 2 of the Constitution and has been exercised by almost every President since the country began. It has been exercised in exactly this way by most presidents since World War 2, FDR included.

Congress cannot limit the inherent powers of the Presidency in carrying out his Constitutional duties, even if they tried, and that logic was explicitly rejected during the debates on FISA at the time it was enacted.

[BigSkyFreeper]

the Bush administration made no public claim of new authority until news accounts disclosed the secret NSA operation

The media doesn't even bother to read their own articles.

[snowman1]

He's a lying POS that sold his own state out to the Kennedy's and the Kerry's so they told him to take a hike, and live off of his wife's LOBBYING MONEY.

[stratman1969]

Supersize that too, Tommy.

[Bean Counter]

And here all this time I figured Puff Boy was busy running Tom Daschle Pontiac somewhere back home....

[Parmy]

Why are we having to hear from this Marist?