The Bush Administration Is Right.
And right after saying I’m bored with politics, I read this.
Bush officials: Congress irrelevant on Iraq
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Mar 5, 2008 12:06:57 ESTThe Bush administration says the 2002 congressional authorization to go to war in Iraq gives it the authority to conduct combat operations in Iraq and negotiate far-reaching agreements with the current Iraqi government without consulting Congress.
The assertion, jointly made Tuesday by U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Mary Beth Long, drew an incredulous reaction from Democrats on a Joint House committee during a hearing on future U.S. commitments to Iraq.
The Bush Administration is correct: Congress is irrelevant on Iraq, because Congress has chosen to be irrelevant on Iraq. The sad fact is Congress abdicated its war-making authority a LONG TIME AGO, preferring to dump, de facto, the decision into the President’s lap (as in Operation Desert Storm, the other Bush war). Congress has one role in this war, which it fulfills perfectly: pony up
For that matter, Congress is irrelevant to the Attorney General scandal and the politicization/corruption of the Department of Justice: Congress has again made itself so, because they won’t enforce subpoenas or enforce inherent contempt. That doesn’t even begin to touch on the damage done by taking impeachment “off the table”. When you neuter your sole instrument of enforcing compliance, you are by definition irrelevant.
Unfortunately, Congress is NOT irrelevant in the case of telecom immunity. In that case, they are what is known as active collaborators. Another word for that is “shameful”. Another phrase is that “violating your oath of office”.
The Bush Administration, pigs that they are, are correct about this Congress, pigs that they are.
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