Biden Attempts To Make Up For Congress’ Forfeit Of Power
Joe Biden may have a problem giving compliments, but he’s alright as far as I’m concerned.
There have been so many congressmen who have said the same thing, and it usually goes a little bit like this: ‘I voted to give the president the authority to go to war with Iraq, but my vote was misled by false claims of weapons of mass destruction, and I do not support the way this war has been conducted.’ I’ve always felt that this was just passing off the consequences of the war to the president. Congress cannot step back and pretend they didn’t help get us into this mess because they were the ones who forfeited their constitutional power.
Sen. Biden (who will be running for the Democratic presidential nomination in ‘08) is at least making an effort to repeal this vote rather than wine about it. He wants to replace this mandate with “a much narrower mission statement for our troops in Iraq.”
It’s definitely a long shot. Especially since if it did pass, the president would certainly veto it. Even so, it is refreshing to see a congressman make the effort to regain some of the power Congress blindly gave away to authorize this war.
Loosely related and very funny link:
Iraq War, congress, biden, 2008 election
March 30th, 2007 at 5:16 am
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