Daschle: Congress won't 'rubber-stamp' Bush

CNN ^ | 3/3/02

[hchutch]

IIRC, Article I of the Constitution limits that option to one degree or another. It's easier, and just as legitimate to tell them that "as you saw on CNN, we began an operation against several state sponsors of terrorism..."

I don't see where the Constitution mandated that congress had to be told operational details, much less methods and sources of intelligence matters.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Daschle serving in his role

This is the kind of 'bipartisan cooperation' we should be interested in!

[hchutch]

I would hold the same position, especially if the GOP Senate was leaking as badly as the Dems were in the mid-80s. Look at the circumstances that prompted Pat Leahy's resignation as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Torricelli also blabbed when he was on the House Intelligence Committee. A reasonable and prudent general, as well as civilian officals would pretty much decide to hold back information from Senators who are suspected of leaking info that could put the lives of troops at risk.

If war plans appear on the front page of the Washington Post, it puts lives of the troops at stake for no good reason. If Senators were better at keeping their lips sealed, then I might feel differently, but there are an awful lot of leaks out there.

[okiedust]

Well, I would want to have a president who wasn't initiating action without consulting the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a day or two after having to admit lying to his family, friends, Congress, Cabinet, and the Country, about being caught with has pants around his ankles, with someone young enough to be his daughter, who was a blabbermouth idiot. Yes. I would under those circumstances require a little more oversight, but still not operational details. The point is, Daschle has no quarrel with the war, or its current prosecution. He cannot point to anything that he finds amiss, and he has been briefed whether he will admit it or not about many things. He is not the democratic president serving jointly with President Bush, he is the majority leader of the Senate. He is not entitled to know as much as the president, and that is what he wants, not because it is good for the country, but because it is good for him and his party.

regards

[jwalsh07]

Don't be a Pepper, he knows not what of he speaks. Here is the relevant section from the War Powers Act passed by Congress relative to the POTUS reporting on the war. Note that it never mentions "operational consultations".

Sec. 4. (c)

Whenever United States Armed Forces are introduced into hostilities or into any situation described in subsection (a) of this section, the President shall, so long as such armed forces continue to be engaged in such hostilities or situation, report to the Congress periodically on the status of such hostilities or situation as well as on the scope and duration of such hostilities or situation, but in no event shall he report to the Congress less often than once every six months.

1. The hostilties have not been engaged for 6 months.

2. Cabinet members have testified to Congress 15 times in that time, about once per week.

3. Daschle met with the President one day before he went public with his "questions" and yet never asked the Presdient those "questions" face to face. A marxist weasel, not an unusually rare species.

[VRWC_minion]

Oh I dont't know if I agree with you. That president did manage to update congress and get a BJ at the same time.

[okiedust]

Well, OK. If we have a genius level, multi-tasker, it may be OK. In that case, all I would really need to know is what his SAT scores were, and if they were high, then everything would be alright. I have to give you that point, as I have given you several others. I can be convinced by a good argument, because I am a moderate.

regards

[uglybiker]

Daschle: Congress won't 'rubber-stamp' Bush

It's a shame Daschle's Dad didn't use a rubber...

[hchutch]

Thanks for coming up with that.

Little Tommy Dasshole needs to go to his room.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

"Lott -- who last week issued a blistering condemnation of Daschle's earlier comments -- said Sunday he was not questioning Daschle's patriotism. "

He should be questioning Daschle's patriotism, his love for America, his desire to see America survive and prosper, his desire to see Americans protected and safe as opposed to being at risk.

Lott should NOT back down from questioning Daschle, Hillary, and the entire Demonratic anti-American cabal! If he doesn't call them unpatriotic traitors, who will? (besides FR members????)

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Dashole is against the terrorist effort. If we don't respond they will destroy America. Why shouldn't we question Dashole's patriotism?

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Why does that matter now?