“...by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”
Someone help me out here...aren’t we a republic?
We were until 1860.
The Republic died with the fraudulent passage of the 17th amendment.
We were. It’s almost gone, now.
Remember Ben Frranklin’s admonishment, after the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787? “We have given you a Republic, m’am, if you can keep it.”
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=11128
—But he figures he can safely assume a majority of you know nothing about it, and his party controlled media will not tell you anything concerning it at this inopportune moment. Hence, another classic example of what I have called Calculated Deception.—
Yeah, Dan Rather found out the hard way that the internet has changed that formula. :-)
Just because the President of the United States - as a result of his foreign-raised childhood - has absolutely NO idea about America, who are you to point this out? Oh, go back to clinging to your guns and Bible.
Sheesh, just because we are a Constitutional Republic, and NOT a democracy, doesn't mean you know more than the faux former editor of the Harvard Law Review! Why Barack Obama is as American as the neighborhood mosque.
Leave it to Obama to shove so much wrong into a portion of one sentence. It wasn’t a strong majority by any stretch and EVERY bill is passed by a democratically elected Congress!