Originally posted by Sikboy
Is there a better way for congress to stop the abrigation of the ABM Treaty? Isn't this what deomocracy is about? These members of the US congress represent those in the United States who think that Treaty Abrigation is a bad move. Should they not be allowed to make a case that the president is over-stepping his bounds by not getting congressional approval for this action?
-Sikboy
Where does the constitution say the president does not have this authority?
If congress has a beef with it then they should argue it in congress which was tried and failed.
``I am troubled that many in Congress appear willing to cede our constitutional responsibility on this matter to the executive branch,'' said Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis. He tried unsuccessfully Monday to bring a resolution to the Senate floor stating that the president cannot withdraw from the treaty without Senate approval.
Kucinich last week tried to get the House to vote on a similar resolution, but House Republicans unanimously rejected a motion to bring the issue to a vote. GOP lawmakers generally support the administration's decision to withdraw from the treaty, which prohibited the United States and the Soviet Union from building major missile defenses and has been an impediment to the administration's plans to move ahead with a missile defense system. Where in the constitution does it give congress authority to end treaties? Nowhere? Where does it say they have the authority to stop a president from ending a treaty? I'll read it again tonight just to make sure...
Then there's wonderful statements like this....
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, ......``The Constitution of the United States is being demolished and we need to challenge that in court,'' it is? maybe they have a point with the american that the justice department handed over to the military, but here? I think not... Why use such inflamitory language? Would it be to damage the rating of a 77% aproved president? I think so.....
Hell they should hire Weazel as a speech writer!
Fatty,
Yeah you're right, but I'm the product of a liberal education system so what do you expect?
Eagler,
I think you are 100% correct..... The democrats in congress don't collectively add up to the worth of the dump I took last night after eating chili......................
Weazel,
Yeah that seems steep to me too, but I have seen keyboards well over $100 before. That ergonomic BS. They probably have to buy the ergonomic ones so that all the P.O.S. government employees won't yell C.P.S. and get worker's comp. .....
( Before I piss anybody off here let me say that this is all pointed at congress and not any democrat citizen that I know or associate with....)
