Congress authorized this fight. After that, it is up to the President to carry it out.
If Congress disagrees with how the President is doing such, they can always rescind that power.
But what was the last vote on the war? Something like 400 to 3? They all talk big but they won't vote to back their talk.
Which makes them a bunch of slimy-assed weasels.
SCOTUS delivered an object lesson in enumerated powers back during the Clinton Administration. They said that the line item veto was unconstitutional because Congress could not cede its powers to the executive without a Constitutional Amendment.The real battle line is somewhere in the middle of those two postions of yours.So if the Legislative is not allowed to cede its own powers, it definitely has no powers to infringe on the enumerated powers of the executive.
Congress authorized this fight ... If Congress disagrees with how the President is doing such, they can always rescind that power.
But what was the last vote on the war? Something like 400 to 3? They all talk big but they won't vote to back their talk.
That lopsided vote was on immediate pullout of Iraq - not on surveillance that has one leg on domestic soil.
Which makes them a bunch of slimy-assed weasels.
I concur with your assessment of Congress, but golly, you argue like a girl.