I think we can do better than this. And my hope is that not to defeat the bill, but to make the bill better.
The intention is not to take down the bill. The intention is to make the bill better.
I agree completely with the authors of this that we should be doing something.
We are not going to defeat terrorism by having war in 60 some odd countries and dropping drones on everybody.
The power to initiate war was Congress'.
I will not vote for something that does not limit the President's power but simply gives a rubber stamp.
We are talking about worldwide war. And I think this authorization will not limit that in any way.
The initiation of war is congressional duty, not the President's at all.
In fact, most of the Founding Fathers would disagree with you on saying that Article II gives the President the authorit...
Madison wrote that the executive branch is the branch most prone to war. Therefore, the Constitution with steady care gr...
I guess my question is, do we create more terrorists than we kill when we go in and kill a handful of people in a remote...