[Dog Gone]

He's 71 years old. I don't know when that photo at Post 13 was taken, but it wasn't anytime recently.

We've been kinda waiting for him to retire to the fruitcake farm where he can polish the buckles on his shoes and wax eloquent about how the Constitution doesn't authorize an Air Force.

[onyx]

LOL-LOL-LOL

[CWOJackson]

"...and wax eloquent about how the Constitution doesn't authorize an Air Force."

Why do I get the feeling you aren't totally joking.

[supercat]

We've been kinda waiting for him to retire to the fruitcake farm where he can polish the buckles on his shoes and wax eloquent about how the Constitution doesn't authorize an Air Force.

Is there any reason why the Constitution shouldn't be amended to authorize one?

I would expect pretty strongly that many Air Force construction projects have appropriations longer than two years. That would be constitutional for the Navy, but not for any other branch of the armed services.

How hard should it have been, before authorizing multi-year appropriations for airplanes and equipment, to pass a Constitutional Amendment specifically saying:

1. Congress shall have the power to create a branch of the military called the Air Force.
2. The Air Force, like the Navy, shall be exempt from the two-year restriction on appropriations.
3. The Air Force shall be forbidden from taking action against citizens of the U.S. except when such citizens have been declared by Congress to be in a state of open insurection.

Would there have been any difficulty passing such an amendment after World War II (the two-year appropriations issue wouldn't matter until the development of larger projects that came along later)? Is there any reason that shouldn't have been done, instead of simply ignoring the lack of authorization?

[deport]

A more recent photo of Dr. No

[jmc813]

We've been kinda waiting for him to retire to the fruitcake farm where he can polish the buckles on his shoes and wax eloquent about how the Constitution doesn't authorize an Air Force.

You do realize that Paul served in the Air Force, right?