OT: Webb to Condi: Ahem...

[rox63]

Despite his blind spot about Vietnam and his rocky history with JK, this Webb guy is really starting to impress me. :)

Webb to Secretary Rice: Ahem

By Paul Kiel - January 30, 2007, 4:16 PM

A couple weeks ago, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) asked Secretary Condoleeza Rice if the administration thought President Bush had the power to take military action against Iran without permission from Congress.

She deferred an answer, saying, "I'm really loathe to get into questions of the president's authorities without a rather more clear understanding of what we are actually talking about. So let me answer you, in fact, in writing. I think that would be the best thing to do."

Well, it's been two weeks, and Sen. Webb is still waiting. So he's asked again, in a letter sent to Rice yesterday. To help speed a response, he even suggested the range of answers she might provide: "This is, basically, a 'yes' or 'no' question regarding an urgent matter affecting our nation’s foreign policy."

-snip-

Read the rest (including his letter) here:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002441.php

[beachmom]

1. Yep -- she blew him off. Webb is right to press this.

See my new Iran thread. It's getting really bad right now, and I hope to God we don't have war with Iran.