Senate May Limit Bush Insurrection Power

Source: United Press International

WASHINGTON April 25 (UPI) -- The Democratic-controlled Senate Tuesday opposed what it calls a White House power grab.

The Democrats also received support from a key Republican senator. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., Wednesday said he would be open to revising a controversial law that gave the U.S. president more power over states and the National Guard in times of emergency.

On Tuesday, the governor of North Carolina told the Senate Judiciary Committee all U.S. governors oppose the Insurrection Act Rider that was included in the fiscal year 2007 defense authorization bill.

Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the law, which gives the president the power to take command of the National Guard "in any situation in which he determined" a state government incapable of maintaining public order.



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Warner may be a conservative Republican, but he's not crazy about all these young Americans dying in Bush's Fool War.

Whether of not, it is a plan for certain disaster across the United States. It tosses any hope for "homeland" security right out the window. The response to future disasters will be...no response. They have degraded the National Guard and now they want total control of them. Perhaps, however, that is part of the plan. No organized militias. But there is Blackwater.

And Blackwater dissolves if you don't pay its fees.

...so I doubt its fees would go unpaid. I shudder to think -- they are already in service here in the US, with plans for expansion.

Hekate

Please. These guys are dangerous, as I am quite sure you know.

...Blackwater to fill in for the National Guard in case of disaster. Sorry I can't remember if it was Oregon or Washington (or gods forbid my own California), but both items were reported here at DU.

Gives me the shudders, I can tell you.

Hekate

Yup, I watch "Jericho". Scary guys. Wild cards.

However, it also then absolves the pResident of responsibility when the next Katrina hits.

But don't we think the states can do a better job than Bush anyway?

I would have expected something like the Peace and Harmony Act. I'm really glad they're doing something about this.

What the Bush mob is currently trying to do is alter it for their own purposes.

I don't automatically think people are bad (or good) because of a party label.

Their actions determine that.

In my mind, I am a moderate - but then I think in 1970s terms, too.

Maybe if they are old enough, they will too.

This is something.

Joe

The last thing we need is for Bush to send the National Guard into our cities to enforce federal martial law.

was written into law as a rider on the defense authorization act.

the scary part. One president sees healthy public dissent while another sees insurrection.

in the long run it seems to be about scrapping the constitution isf you think about it......
insurrections due to global warming natural disasters and a president who isn't allowed to step in with powers that have been granted to the president.

be carfull what you ask for.

the American Revolution was about? But then who defines tyrant. :crazy:

as he jumped on to the stage ?

...break a leg.....

of freedom deserve it not for themselves.

"You can't govern by polls".
He wasn't a very popular Commander in Chief during his presidency ....especially in the south. Polls taken in the south chose to leave the union when he was elected president.

btw
The media also questioned his suspending of Habeas Corpus come to think of it.



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Impeach on the Beach folks - Beware!!!!!

Altho, I think if * tried to order our soldiers against ordinary amerikans, he might get the shock of his life when they went after him instead of us.

As far as Blackwater goes,....it's anyone's guess where their loyalties lie.