Congress may try to rein in Dubya

[Edward Copeland]

TIME reports that members of both parties in Congress are considering a constitutional amendment to clarify a president's war powers.

http://edwardcopeland.blogspot.com/2006/02/congress-looking-at-constitutional.html

[Eric J in MN]

1. a statue to amend the resolution for war in Afghanistan

to say that it doesn't authorize anything in the US would make more sense.

A statute can pass in weeks. A constitutional amendment takes years.

[HereSince1628]

2. It would take years to get an amendment passed and ratified

Dumbya will be long gone by the time it is realized.

I am not saying it is an entirely bad idea. If the current constitutional crisis doesn't kill the republic having such thing could be good.

But we have an acute problem in the WH; it needs more immediate attention. We need action that Congress can complete now. Banning funding for continued war-making, for example, is well inside their power though I doubt it is inside their will.

[flordehinojos]

3. c-o-n-s-i-d-e-r-i-n-g? perhaps, in a few delusional brains.

c-o-n-s-i-d-e-r-i-n-g sounds like such a far and away distant kind of thing...something somewhat out of the reach of factual reality...some child play fantasy...something to pacify the massess with? c-o-n-s-i-d-e-r-i-n-g, a karl rovian play script? C-O-N-S-I-D-E-R-I-N-G? like, letters, one by one falling into the toilet of baseless platitudes.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Not without the blessing of the RNC. Congress and the Senate need

money for their campaigns.

When * loses appeal to the RNC, THEN you'll see some movement.

[Virginia Dare]

5. God, this is depressing..

pretty soon they're just going to trash the whole thing and say "do-over". These delusional, arrogant fools think they can do better than Madison and Jefferson?

[LiberalEsto]

6. Depends on how one defines "better"

Some people think "better" means a nation of serfs with no rights, ruled by despotic corporations. Prison camps. Torture. Spying. Endless war and a permanent draft. Women with no reproductive rights forced to become nothing but child-bearers.