(02-15-2019, 08:57 AM)robkelk Wrote: I'm rather hoping that the Republican Senators mean what they say in opposing this... and are willing to follow through with it.
Why? Because under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, only Congress has the power to apportion monies for the Armed Forces. Such a blatant disregard for the Constitution's measures on the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches is IMHO grounds for impeachment.
That presumes that republicans are willing, which I would find surprising.
Notice the silence of all those people and pundits “concerned” with the Constitution back in the Obama presidency.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg