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Posted on 12/10/2011 1:46:40 PM PST by rabscuttle385
He is correct, now when will he revoke TARP.
Finally a senator with some common sense. This war should never have been started.
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Congress gave themsleves an unconstitutional “out” when they passed the War Powers Act in 1973. They did so to limit the Presdient’s ability to commit troops for more than 60 days without their approval. The fact is that Congress already had that ability; its called the “power of the purse”. They can end ANY conflict by withdrawing the funding, but because they don’t want to deal with the political fallout of defunding “the troops”, Congress takes the easy way out. Its all about “checks and balances” and Congress’ “check” was their control of the money. Period!
Yep. No more nation-building!
Go in and kill the terrorists and leave. Period.
DeMint just voted for Iran to take over Iraq.
But I've seen many on FR lately. I guess you can brag about your cowardice if no one knows who you are, eh?
Not talking about DeMint......just the punks and cowards who roam FR these days.....
Good for DeMint.
And I salute Rand Paul for taking this stand.
Libertarians that follow the Paulite version of “foreign policy”. Not conservative, no, but a number of them are on FR.
Therefore, we [Free Republic] wholeheartedly support the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strikes on known terrorist states and organizations that are believed to present a clear threat to our freedom or national security.
Statement by the founder of Free Republic
"We fight them [Islamofacists] over there so we don't have to fight them over here" sounds like a winning strategy to me.
...starts and ends wars all the time (see: Libya) without even the pretension of seeking legal authority. Sen. DeMint's support was for something much different and more significant: He voted to end the Iraq War by demanding that the president no longer be able to legally wage it.
Now that we’ve withdrawn almost everyone we have there...what a brave stand!
I know, I like DeMint, but excuse me while I stifle a yawn.
The only cowards here are the ones who refuse to stand up against illegal, immoral wars of aggression.
The traitors are the ones who think that the U.S. government ought to act as a "global policeman," a role not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, yet are unwilling to pay for it, in blood or in treasure, and would prefer to send others to die and make others - even the unborn - to pay. Even worse, these traitors leave the back door wide open for foreign invaders, all the while lying to the men and women whom they send to die in strange lands that they are "defending" their families, friends, and communities, when in reality they are being dispatched as mercenaries to serve foreign powers and foreign interests.
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The best phrase I've heard describing them is 'liberal tightwads,' but 'cowards' also suits them well.
Refusing to protect this country from its enemies and from danger is the only cowardice here.....
Enjoy your hippie flower fest. :)
Your Senator and his colleague from Kentucky (you know which one I speak of, and it isn’t Mitch McConnell) are real patriots and statesmen.
It’s a darn shame that neither DeMint nor the Paul from Kentucky are running in 2012, but, irrespective of which flip-flopping, soulless statist pig (Gingrich/Romney or Obama) wins, I will sleep soundly knowing that there are actual patriots and statesmen in the Senate actively working to drain the Federal swamp.
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