Inherent Power of the President

This will be their bottom line argument and it scares the living daylights out of my political soul.

The spin, the trappings, the rhetoric are all about that. And when it comes to a blunt review, the Bush Administration will pull up the blunt constitutional stand they've been alluding to all along: The "inherent power of the President".

I agree with Senator Feinstein. We are in for a constitutional crisis.

Bush, and the legal sycophants in the administration, are trying to parlay his role as Commander in Chief into a position that is beyond Congressional review and Constitutional constraint.

Given the President's personal MO and the coterie of true believers he's accumulated in his byzantine operation, I don't see a stand down.

Hang on, it looks like a train wreck.

and what's scary is, the deciders are in place to rule in their favor.

We. Are. Screwed.

I haven't a clue, but it's going to be interesting. Taking back the House and/or the Senate would be a great start...:kick:

Did you read recently where the military are intimating they will not go along with an attack on Iran? Wouldn't it be ironic if it fell to the US military to honor their oath to protect and defend the Constitution?

would be standing WITH the Constitution.

march into the White House and throw Bush,Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, et al into irons and drag them off to Leavenworth.

There. There's your political solution.

The president has no inherent power. Read the tenth amendment. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." If the constitution doesn't give the president explicit power, then the power rests with the states or the people! No one ever seems to quote this amendment.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

in the U.S. Constitution . . .

and, in his oath of office, the president promises to "faithfully execute" the laws passed by Congress . . . altering them with "signing statements" is not faithful execution -- it's treason . . .