George Rebane
On hubris and nemesis in the Deep State – an interview (here) with Victor Davis Hanson sheds some new light on the goings on in the unelected state within a state. (H/T to correspondent)
Consulting Congress required? The Constitution is very specific on the matters of national security that require the President to consult with Congress before acting. And the Constitution purposefully gives the President sole power to decide what constitutes an imminent threat to our national security. The War Powers Act (actually a Resolution) of 1973 was enacted only to check the President’s power to unilaterally commit the US to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress (e.g. the Vietnam War). None of this is material to the opportunistic assassination of another high level terrorist leader in the course of conducting longstanding regional security operations. The Democrats are demogauging their hopefully ignorant constituents.
Listening to Tucker Carlson quoting polls taken of all Americans on matters of economics, foreign policy, ecology, …, and anything requiring numeracy is a misleading and futile effort, because the population as a whole is not read on such topics. That is why our Founders feared a pure democracy and instead gave us a republic, ‘if we can keep it’. Anti-Americans of all stripes always advocate doing away with our republican Constitution and substituting a pure democracy as the shortcut to an overarching tyranny of the elites. Tucker should know better.
[6jan20 update] Obama’s blatant treachery (without congressional approval for those so concerned) was secretly releasing and delivering to the mullahs pallets of Iranian cash sequestered by the US since that country declared itself a sworn enemy of America and acted accordingly for decades. That money went directly to support the rogue country’s killing of Americans across the globe, and funding its world threatening nuclear weapons program. And we have yet to discover who all in the free world took Iranian bribes to support the horrible nuclear agreement under which the mullahs have continued their nuclearization unopposed and unobserved.
The Union demonstrates once again its open-door editorial policy to let profoundly ignorant local ideologues embellish their op-ed pages. Today a Nevada City worthy gets to vent in a particularly long diatribe titled ‘The billionaire’s (sic) lament’. Here we learn that it has been our billionaires who have prevented “working/nonworking class families (to) be able to live sustainable lives.” It is they who have squirreled all that money, taken from the poor, in their mattresses instead of investing it to build companies, provide needed goods/services, and create jobs for the rest of us. Happy days lie ahead when the likes of Bernie and Pocahontas put in place their new asset and income taxes to finally launch what “is a ‘class battle for power,’ one between the wealthy old rich males (super rich 1%) with their minions (rich 19%) against all of you, no matter who you are.”
The nation’s progressive pinheads have now fastened on “imminent threat” as a demonstrated prerequisite for killing Soleimani, the murderous mastermind of Islamist ragheads everywhere. Congressional Democrats and their lamestream lackeys grudgingly admit to Soleimani’s decades of dastardly deeds, but now see ‘imminence’ as a useful distraction to refocus their ongoing TDS. From the 6jan20 WSJ, “If the threat to Americans from Soleimani was real, it doesn’t matter under international law whether the threat was “imminent.” The traditional law of war couldn’t be clearer on this point. If Soleimani was an enemy combatant waging war on the U.S., then the U.S. has every right to target him. If he was directing attacks on the U.S., as not even Chuck Todd doubts he was, then he can be legally targeted.” (here)
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