A posters input on the article: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pamela Parsons Heath · Top Commenter https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-115 I'm not sure about treason, but sedition, seditious conspiracy, and 18 U.S. Code § 2388 - Activities affecting armed forces during war (GWoT, remember? We're still fighting it.) are definitely applicable. Cotton should immediately be censured, tried under the applicable charges and if found guilty, impeached and serve the maximum time allowed by law.
Sounds like its more than just Republicans..... Republicans also have a new argument to make in asserting their role in the diplomatic process: Vice President Joe Biden similarly insisted -- in a letter to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell -- on congressional approval for the Moscow Treaty on strategic nuclear weapons with Russia in 2002, when he was head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The new letter is the latest piece of an effort by Senators in both parties to ensure that Congress will have some say if and when a deal is signed. Senators Bob Corker, Lindsey Graham, Tim Kaine and the embattled Bob Menendez have a bill pending that would mandate a Congressional review of the Iran deal, but Republicans and Democrats have been bickering over how to proceed in the face of a threatened presidential veto. Still, Senators from both parties are united in an insistence that, at some point, the administration will need their buy-in for any nuclear deal with Iran to succeed. There’s no sign yet that Obama believes this -- or, if he does, that he plans to engage Congress in any meaningful way.
There's a considerable difference between sending a letter to the Secretary of State and sending an open letter to the leaders of a foreign country.
Did you even read what I wrote? How can I be too dependent on government when I specifically said I wish they hadn't done anything for the last six years? You're a moron or a troll....or both.
O'Reilly must be your twin brother , Clubber . . . show me where in the post i quoted you saying the above.
it means, if you would be much better off if government had done nothing, too much of your life is dependent on what government does, or does not do.
"Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard University law professor and former top legal official in the George W. Bush administration, offered the lawmakers their own lesson early Monday morning. "Writing for the blog Lawfare, Goldsmith noted that the senators mistakenly say in their message that the Senate "must ratify" any treaty. In fact, he points out, the Senate's role is to give the president its consent for a treaty -- and to recognize that ratifying it is the president's choice. "This is a technical point that does not detract from the letter’s message that any administration deal with Iran might not last beyond this presidency," Goldsmith wrote. "But in a letter purporting to teach a constitutional lesson, the error is embarrassing." Lol.
We are well aware of the things we don't want to pay for. Some of these things happen because some politician, or politicians, had their palms crossed by corporate interests. As one example, nearly all our expensive, murderous, and counter productive wars would fall into this category; we routinely use lofty, altruistic justifications for war. But in truth, virtually all wars have dual motives, one nearly always being corporate profits and maintaining American corporate hegemony abroad. Beside endless wars, we have no difficulty thinking of many other federally funded activities we'd rather not contribute to. (To fix our government, we'd have to change the way we fund political campaigns, and the "rules". That would require fixing our obsolescent Constitution!, an unlikely event.) That said, the bulk of government activities go on day to day without our taking notice of them, and it is quite likely that we are entirely unaware of many. But we would sorely miss the outcomes of these government programs and activities if they weren't there. Quite of few of these activities pay dividends over time, although their immediate impact isn't evident. I'll mention only one example: The internet!; federal funds played an important role in its development. There are endless other examples that could be named however. So government is a mixed bag. Be careful what you wish for. You might find yourself in Malawi. https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=13903