Joe Scarborough: “I hear all these arguments, but they are arguments on policy, they are not arguments on Constitution; they are not…”

“I hear all these arguments, but they are arguments on policy, they are not arguments on Constitution; they are not arguments on law, they are not arguments on the procedure that James Madison and our Founding Fathers gave to us over 220 years ago on how we were going to run a war, how we were going to send troops across the world. James Madison wrote in the early 18th century that the Founders intentionally vested the instruments of war-making capability in the hands of the legislative branch because they knew, the Founders recognized, that the executive branch would be the most prone to war and be the most prone to sending troops across the world. Look what has happened now. We have more troops in more places across the world than at any time in the history of this Republic. We are giving them less to work with. They have been well-founded. Somebody said this was about us being wimps or about protecting lives or waving the flag or supporting the troops. Those arguments are all red herrings.”