The Obama problem . . . . . he's talking about going to war without approval of congress.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

The lack of effectiveness of his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, almost makes war with SOMEBODY a certainty! Just ask Bill!

And our congress sits on their hands and their constitutional power and does and says nothing!

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In stunning testimony before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey both indicated that international permission rather than congressional approval provided the legal basis for any military action taken by the United States.

In fact, Defense Secretary Panetta actually stated that the military and executive branch would decide when military intervention was necessary based on NATO or UN resolutions, and then come before Congress and inform them of their decision, much like they did in Libya.

To say that Senator Sessions was stunned at their testimony would be an understatement. Reminding them that military use authorization rested with Congress, and that all legal authority to authorize military action rested with Congress, Senator Sessions again asked them if they believed that international law trumped constitutional authority in the defense of the United States. Like the good little politician that he is, Panetta weaseled and waffled around his answer, but in the end, could not hide his progressive, globalist beliefs that the international community dictated the use or non-use of American armed military forces and that Congress had no say in the matter.

This really shouldn't surprise anyone. The globalists have been taking over ever since the early 1900s. First we had the League of Nations, a disjointed and toothless organization. However, after WWII, the United Nations replaced it, learned from its predecessor's mistakes, and organized a more formidable organization that was intent on global control.

And true UN sycophant that he is, Obama has been defying Congress, side-stepping Congress and congressional authority, and has misused his position as Commander-in-Chief to authorize military action in countries we had no business being in, all at the direction of the United Nations and international community. For a president that campaigned so heavily against the Iraq war in 2008, wailing about the travesty of our troops being over there, he sure has been quick to call out the troops for any little skirmish for which his handlers tell him they are needed.

Absolute power corrupts... absolutely.

However, I have much larger concerns than the executive branch. We have three branches of government, and in fact, the executive branch is the weakest of those three. Next to the executive, we have the judicial branch, and we already know that the judicial branch has been corrupted. Instead of ruling strictly on the basis of the Constitution, our judges now take international law into consideration in their rulings. These men and women sit in our courts all over this country, trained and educated at the progressive schools which have graduated the likes of Obama, the Clintons, and the Bushes, globalists all.

No, what concerns me is our Congress. Where are they in all this? It appears that they have become a castrated lot, with their tongues cut out. They hold all the power. They have the ability to correct this. Why aren't they doing anything? Don't you wish we had a Congress such as the one in Honduras in 2009 which acted legally and swiftly, in concert with their Supreme Court, to depose a president who was attempting to circumvent the law and making pathways to establish himself as a dictator for life? (I know, they later capitulated to international pressure, but for one brief moment, they were a shining example of possibility.)

When the president appoints czars with no congressional oversight, where is the Congress? When our military is used for international actions without the consent of Congress, where are their voices? When onerous rules and regulations are implemented by agencies without the backing of law, why don't we hear their protests in defense of the American people whom they are supposed to represent?

Their silence is deafening.

I fear for our country. No longer are we one people. The politicians have successfully divided us along racial, ethnic, financial, economic, religious, and political lines. They have created an atmosphere where we are so busy fighting one another that we can't focus on the descent into totalitarianism that our country is suffering.

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PWS

Some might ask, what can the congress really do? Is there a constitutional remedy for an administration gone "rogue"? Absolutely! Read Amendment XXV. It gives power to, "or such other body as Congress may by law provide" declare that the president is no longer able to discharge the powers and duties of his office".

It is only the lack of gonads that this constitutional protection has not been applied to the Obama administration and the liberal progressive democrat machine.

Just as the democrat machine has overwhelmed the nation with a "trick" president and a cadre' of cazars running hither and yon taking control of any and all areas of commerce, life's processes, and the fracturing of the process of law, they have buried the Constitution and all of it's liberty and Freedoms.

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