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Platapus · 12-02-14, 06:30 PM

I do like the end of the Iraq and AF authorizations, and I do believe that President Obama has violated the War Powers Act*

But does Rand Paul really understand what a declaration of war entails? I suspect that he doesn't.

Here is just a taste http://www.oup.com/us/static/compani...ess%204-10.pdf And that only applies to the federal budget process.

Do these politicians even understand their own laws? Of course this has no chance of passing and is just a political grandstand ploy so that Rand can get some undeserved publicity.

*every president since 1974 has made statements that the War Powers Act of 1974 is unconstitutional. It is one of the political games of Chicken. Congress really does not want to press it to the SCotUS.

12-02-14, 06:30 PM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,384 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I do like the end of the Iraq and AF authorizations, and I do believe that President Obama has violated the War Powers Act* But does Rand Paul really understand what a declaration of war entails? I suspect that he doesn't. Here is just a taste http://www.oup.com/us/static/compani...ess%204-10.pdf And that only applies to the federal budget process. Do these politicians even understand their own laws? Of course this has no chance of passing and is just a political grandstand ploy so that Rand can get some undeserved publicity. every president since 1974 has made statements that the War Powers Act of 1974 is unconstitutional. It is one of the political games of Chicken. Congress really does not want to press it to the SCotUS. __________________ abusus non tollit usum -* A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.