Progressive Furious with Obama

Progressive - Our founders would be appalled that a President of the United States could launch the country into an armed conflict half a world away without a formal declaration of war by Congress, much less barely any discussion of it by the House or by the Senate. Article 1, Section 8, of our Constitution is unambiguous: Only Congress has the authority “to declare war.”

James Madison warned that allowing the President to take the country into war would be “too much of a temptation for one man.” At this point in the warping of our system of checks and balances, a President can wage war almost whenever he feels like it — or at least whenever he can cobble together some “broad coalition,” as Obama put it, or a “coalition of the willing,” as his predecessor put it. Read full column here: News New Mexico

Progressive Furious with Obama