Imperial Prez rebuttal by David Brin

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2007/05/from-sublime-to-ridiculous-to-just_12.html

Below is an excerpt from Contrary Brin posting...the whole post is delicious...this is sublime...it is attributable to Russ Daggett via Brin...

...According to Bush, Congress doesn't have the power to condition its war funding on a directive to redeploy troops from Iraq. This is just a continuation of his practice of appending signing statements to legislation making it clear that he reserves the right to ignore any laws he doesn't like.
Lately, many Administration apologists have been yapping that Congress has no business involving itself in matters like oversight or Foreign Policy at all!

In fact, and as a reminder, Article I of the US Constitution makes it pretty clear that Congress is the branch of government that sets war policy. Among the powers of Congress:To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;To provide and maintain a Navy;To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;And if that is not clear enough, it also gives Congress the power,To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Our Weekend

Our weekend was fine...We had a nice time at Meg and Mickey's...Saturday was spent at the big box store collecting plants for Meg and Mick's new raised garden area...on Sunday went to Emerald Downs for some horse racing...something that Mick had planned as a mothers day thing for Megs...seems a lot of people had the same idea...I broke even bet wise...spent all my money on food and beer...was fun...got home to Yakima at 9 last night...couch potato tired...surfed the TV...stopping mainly when naked people showed up on the screen...when the clinches were over I would continue surfing...was not into dialogue or plot...am blaming such behavior on my maleness...but not apologizing for it...you know...the surfing thing...ended up at CSPAN watching...well not really watching...just a semiconscious fade in fade out kind of viewing...on the life of Einstein...probably was interesting and educational...certainly was soothing...