Posted on 04/05/2007 12:38:01 PM PDT by flutters
Congressman Tom Lantos, who is a member of the delegation that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led to Syria, put the mission clearly when he said: "We have an alternative, Democratic foreign policy." Democrats can have any foreign policy they want - if and when they are elected to the White House.
Until Ms. Pelosi came along, it was understood by all that we had only one president at a time and - like him or not - he alone had the constitutional authority to speak for this country to foreign nations, especially in wartime.
All that Ms. Pelosi's trip can accomplish is to advertise American disunity to a terrorist-sponsoring nation in the Middle East while we are in a war there. That in turn can only embolden the Syrians to exploit the lack of unified resolve in Washington by stepping up their efforts to destabilize Iraq and the Middle East in general.
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I used to think that tweaks might be able to fix the system. But now, it may be too damaged for that and may need to be rebuilt from the ground up. Of course, no need to reinvent the wheel, just strip away all the ill advised amendments and extra Constitutional crap that’s been allowed to build up. The system as of 1800, plus Civil Rights (but, please note, minus overall UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE) would be just right. There should be qualifications for voting, but ones that are merit and objective criteria based not aribtrary. Dummies and government dependents not allowed no matter what race, sex or creed. Etc.
The two party system is not in the Constitution. Consider it a rise of factions, which is what the founders tried hard to avoid.
Yes.
It’s a brewing Constitutional crisis. The “pure socialist democracy” envisaged by the Gramscian Left cannot allow anything more than a ceremonial Executive Branch. The PM / Speaker of the House will be the Caesar.
You ARE the Right(correct)Whale.
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I think the NY Times headline would more likely have read:
TREASON
Newt Shreds Constitution in Traitorous Trip
Well, Newt made a similar mistake. He thought he could use the Speaker’s chair to make policy. He’s a bright guy, but he should have do it the way that Sam Rayburn did, which was to keep a low profile and exercise power behind the scenes, and above all, LISTEN to people.
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