tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433760869284224231.post6642755456323612594..comments2023-09-25T06:29:55.346-07:00Comments on 2010 ILC at Columbia: Work, Work, Work...Madeline Kronenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809038721402994691noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433760869284224231.post-71351338859283438972010-07-02T10:11:56.367-07:002010-07-02T10:11:56.367-07:00Winston,
I suppose that any day that you don'...Winston,<br /><br />I suppose that any day that you don't lock yourself out can be called a good day.<br /><br />Your course is limited to a short time when you could easily spend a lifetime on the subject so there will be volumes of interesting sub-subjects that will not be discussed.<br /><br />Even though there were protections put into the Constitution, what do we do when a President does things above and beyond what the Constitution allows? Of course, the systems of checks and balances is supposed to protect us but what do you do when the Supreme Court is packed with Ideologues supportive of that President and what do you do when the President's party controls both houses of Congress?<br /><br />The system we have in place, Winston, at least for the most part, is a good system but it's the abuses of that system that can bring our house down upon us.<br /><br />What do we do when a President essentially starts a war without benefit of a declaration from Congress? We've had no such declaration of war since December 8th, 1941 yet we've gone into Korea, Lebanon, Haiti (numerous times), Granada, Panama, the Balkans, Somalia, the Gulf, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the list goes on.<br /><br />We've had Presidents who have used the IRS and the FBI to spy on American citizens whose names are on their "hit list".<br /><br />We've had Presidents who have defied Congress by trading with countries that we're sanctioning (Iran) to illegally bypass the Boland Amendment to supply arms to Nicaragua.<br /><br />What do we do in such instances? Do we go through the disgrace of an impeachment? And how do we do this if the President has the support of his party that's controlling Congress?Don Gosneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110247579694408858noreply@blogger.com