Former Republican Rep. Chastises Representatives Subservient to Bush

[swag]

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The Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight is currently holding a hearing, "War Powers for the 21st Century: The Congressional Perspective." Mickey Edwards a former Republican Representative from the Oklahoma and Co-Chair of The War Powers Committee at The Constitution Project, gives testimony.

[ProfessorPlum]

1. I wish I could recommend this 20 times.

Excellently put, and so missing in the views of today's GOP.

[marias23]

2. Too late,Too late,Too late,Too damn late!

3,987 dead American soldiers, tens of thousands maimed for life and 100,000s of innocent dead and maimed Iraqis. Too damm late!

[pacalo]

3. Five years, $7 trillion, hundreds of thousands dead lives too late.

But I did appreciate hearing a Republican with apparently wiser, saner experience in Congress give a constitutional lesson about Congress's role.

"Party loyalty doesn't trump the Constitution."

Welcome to DU, marias23. :toast:

[dave123williams]

4. It's about Goddamned time somebody said that to them.

Their unblinking partisan loyalty to Bush, placed before loyalty to Country, is going to BUGGER this country for years to come.

That guy's right; a capitulating congress is about the worst thing imaginable.

[midnight]

5. Americans were rounded up and sent to war.... But why????

Follow the contracts and the story will be told...

[Sam Ervin jret]

6. Thank you Mr. Edwards.

It is never too late.

Congress needs to be made ashamed of its self and I mean both parties.

We may have just seen the "have you no shame moment" of the Bushian/congressional attempt to negate or surrender the responsibility of powers under the Constitution.

We had that tea party and that Revolution to be rid of one King George. Maybe it's tea time.

One never knows what small act will cause the chain of events that cause a revolution. Even a revolution of ideas.

[politicaholic]

7. AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Why can't we get impeachment!!!

Why can't it be introduced again, and again, and again, and again, until it sticks!

[sloquick]

8. Polite comparec to what's deserved.

[sloquick]

9. Polite compared to what's deserved.

[MasonJar]

10. Good for him for telling it like it should be, not like it is. Maybe a

Republican coming out with that important reminder about country and Constitution over President and party will affect a few GOPers. It is hardly likely to change many of their "moranic" mentalities.