NOW, CAN CONGRESS REALLY DO NOTHING ABOUT IRAQ?

From the Huffington Post courtesy of AlterNet Democratic Senator and new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Joe Biden on why he thinks Congressional control over military budgets doesn't amount to much:

"You can't go in like a Tinkertoy and play around and say you can't spend the money on this piece and this piece," Mr. Biden said on the NBC News program "Meet the Press." "He'll be able to keep the troops there forever, constitutionally, if he wants to."

Click here for more, including a link to the Washington Post, from which the quote comes.

As big of a dick as Biden is, he's got a point: the White House has already shown repeatedly that it is completely willing to do whatever it wants in spite of Congressional oversight, although I don't know if that's what Biden meant when he said "constitutionally." At any rate, If money is pulled from the Iraq war budget, the Oval Office will simply drain it from some other budget, whether it's legal or not to do so. However, I can personally think of one Constitutional option for getting Bush out of Iraq if Congress is willing to do it. Impeach 'em, Bush and Cheney both. At this point, there are mountains of evidence for numerous high crimes performed by the executive branch, and they're losing their supporters, and by that I mean bigtime, wealthy, powerful establishment supporters, hand over fist. It's not a "slam dunk," I know, but, if successful, it'll get us out of this damned war, if anything.

Are the Democrats really serious about ending the occupation? I guess we'll see.

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