the Democrats are splintered
Even the Democrats are half in line with this utter bullshit. Impeachment ain't happening, unfortunately.
Even the Democrats are half in line with this utter bullshit.
This has never been in doubt.
"The opposition party likely gains from internal division when the country faces a foreign-policy challenge. That way, no matter which way the crisis resolves, they have leaders who can say they were on the right side."
This is why politics irritate the fuck out of me.
That's just a sterile, academic way of looking at the benefits of diversity. If you have multiple leaders with different solutions to issues then you are more likely to have a leader that was closest to the mark. For a professor that sure was a shithead way of expressing a simple idea.
Ok, come back when it's more than just talk.
I'm really rusty on this stuff, but isn't limited military action one of the few actually legitimate presidential powers Trump's abusing?
The War Powers Act of 1973 gives the President legal authority to order use of force abroad only with a formal declaration of war, specific Congressional authorization, or a national emergency.
And unlike some ambiguous emergency rules, the law specifies it's an attack on the US or American forces.
That said, to your point every president in the last few decades has broken this law.
Ðe War Powers Act was in response to Vietnam, right? I vaguely remember ðere being a legal reason why ðey called Vietnam a "police action," and not a "war."
We really shouldn't have let any of them.
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