Get Specter a Pocket-Constitution;

According to AP (by way of Fox News Channel), Arlen Specter (R-INO) is challenging the President’s decision-making powers;

“I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider,” Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Congress’ war powers amid an increasingly harsh debate over Iraq war policy. “The decider is a shared and joint responsibility,” Specter said.

I would suggest to Mr. Specter that he read Section 2 of Article II of the Constitution, whereas;

The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices….

And when he gets done reading it, he can pass it on to Russ Feingold;

“The Constitution makes Congress a coequal branch of government. It’s time we start acting like it,” said Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., who is chairing a hearing Tuesday on Congress’ war powers and forwarding legislation to eventually prohibit funding for the deployment of troops to Iraq.

It doesn’t say a word in Constitution about Congress having war powers (Article I), short of cutting off funding. So if thats what he wants to do, do it already. Show your true colors – shit or get off the pot.

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