October 11, 2007Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb IranJohn Morgan, Senator Robert P. Casey is trying to explain his vote on the Lieberman/Kyl Amendment granting George W. Bush the authority to begin military combat operations against Iran. He sounds a lot like Hillary Clinton meaning our most esteemed representatives in Washington are completely susceptible to brainwashing and are utterly incapable of reading an actual text before voting. The overwhelming majority of blogospheric traffic about this is on the left, and it's generally dripping with hysterics. Meaning it's likely a mountain out of a molehill. Indeed, despite doing a good job of posting the scary text of the bill, he does so without a) providing a link b) providing a few more paragraphs of context... probably because it would blow the outrage right out the door. The words he (along with the rest of the liberal bloggers) neglected to post: "It is the sense of the Senate". Sense of the Senate (or House) aren't very "toothy" declarations of anything! But don't believe me. Believe C-SPAN. SENSE OF THE SENATE is legislative language which offers the opinion of the Senate, but does not make law. Bed wetting is so tacky once you're older than two or three. Iran Senate War on Terror Posted by AlexC at October 11, 2007 11:29 AM |
The text of the entire Amendment and a link are contained in an earlier article about the vote which my regular readers are familiar with.
Posted by: John Morgan at October 11, 2007 12:02 PMYou linked, but did you read?
Surely you would have noticed the Sense of the Senate text?
Isn't that rather important to the imminence of the invasion?
Posted by: AlexC at October 11, 2007 12:35 PM | What do you think? [2]