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November 06, 2007
Bipartisan Effort To Strengthen War Powers Act
Did you know a bipartisan group of six congressman have introduced a bill strengthening the 1973 War Powers Act? Neither did I. While this is perhaps the most important issue there is if you care about boring old things like democracy, it's gotten embarrassingly little attention online and almost none in the regular media. The best, in fact, is an impressively honest column by George Will.
If you want to know more, I've stuck additional details about the bill over here.
Posted at November 6, 2007 02:57 PM | TrackBack1-202-225-0100 DEMAND IMPEACHMENT.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at November 6, 2007 05:34 PMOh yeah, DRINK WHISKEY--it'll do you a hell of a lot more good than what George Wills and a redefinition of the War Powers Act will.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at November 6, 2007 05:40 PMA couple of diaries about it over at Daily Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/6/103622/014
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/4/215045/463
The comments are probably more interesting than the diaries, if more effort to get through.
There was a similarly named bill in 2001 introduced by RoPey. Was it proposing something similar? (Even if so the devil's in the detail, of course.)
Posted by: me at November 7, 2007 04:12 AMHm.
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/11/4/215045/463/15#c15
It is an early draft, I guess.
I just emailed my congressman to ask him to look into supporting and/or cosponsoring this bill.
Posted by: Dayv at November 7, 2007 12:01 PMJames I 26-27 (NIV)
26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
