Well, ignorance of that particular "fly in the ointment" seems to have been aided and abetted by Senator Bob Corker. (May his name forever live in infamy, unless he comes to his senses pretty soon.)
If the president "has unilaterally written a bill for Congress" that is astonishingly "hazy" in its details, then I think the paramount duty of the Senate right now is to clarify these "hazy" details sufficiently as to what they logically entail, for the benefit of the people; also thereby declaring the principles upon which they acted — voted — as individual senators, in the process.
One-third of the senatorial body is up for reelection next year. Whether they are Dem or GOP or whatever, they need to expose their little political feeties to the fire of constitutional truth. Those who do not survive this "trial by fire" should be retired from their senatorial duties as soon as possible....
JMHO FWIW.
Thank you ever so much for writing, dear brother in Christ!
It would be nice if I could say about Corker, “He’s just plain stupid.”, but I can’t. I think he knew what he was doing. It was the TPP, TAA, TPA thing all over again...all confusion all the time as people researched everywhere trying to sort it out.
Corker’s bill requires the Congress to approve a plan that wasn’t yet written. And if they don’t approve it, then the President vetoes what doesn’t go forward, and they have to override it with a super-majority so that it really doesn’t go forward. So, what goes forward is something they didn’t write, didn’t originate in Congress, and didn’t get approved, but has been vetoed meaning it a non-approval goes forward. (Follow all that? It gives me a headache.)
My brain says, ‘then don’t vote in the first place’, and it won’t go forward, And then my high school civics class reminds me that a treaty requires 2/3 Senate approval.
The hopeful news in all this is that the alternative media is giving them fits, so that now they have to make the issue so murky that even a Ranger wearing NVGs couldn’t find his way around in it.
The bad news is that that is exactly what they are doing.