Our executive branch - a clear and present danger
of COURSE the govs are opposing this...
not only is it unprecedented, not only does it give a dangerous amount of power to a president who has unconstitutionally amassed too much already, it would be setting the stage for bush's final big act, probably on the calendar either before the fall elections or before his presidential term expires - declaring martial law following another terrorist attack on u.s. soil... and, par for the course, it was drafted in secret and slipped in to a piece of currently pending legislation...
this kind of thing gives me the creeps... at least the governors recognize the threat... the ludicrous part is that the bush administration keeps telling us we should be afraid of the TERRORISTS... HA...! Submit To Propeller
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The nation's governors, protesting what they call an unprecedented shift in authority from the states to the federal government, will urge Congress today to block legislation that would allow the president to take control of National Guard forces in the event of a natural disaster or a threat to homeland security.
In a sharply worded letter that will be transmitted to Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress this morning, the governors ask that a House-Senate conference committee remove a provision included in the House-passed version of the National Defense Authorization Act giving the president such authority.
not only is it unprecedented, not only does it give a dangerous amount of power to a president who has unconstitutionally amassed too much already, it would be setting the stage for bush's final big act, probably on the calendar either before the fall elections or before his presidential term expires - declaring martial law following another terrorist attack on u.s. soil... and, par for the course, it was drafted in secret and slipped in to a piece of currently pending legislation...
"This provision was drafted without consultation or input from governors and represents an unprecedented shift in authority from governors as commanders and chief of the Guard to the federal government," the governors state in the letter.
As of yesterday, 51 governors, including some from U.S. territories, had signed the letter, a sign of broad bipartisan support that underscores the depth of opposition among state executives to encroachments by Washington on their powers.
The governors discovered the provision two weeks ago, and the effort to have it removed from the defense bill began at last week's National Governors Association summer meeting in Charleston, S.C.
this kind of thing gives me the creeps... at least the governors recognize the threat... the ludicrous part is that the bush administration keeps telling us we should be afraid of the TERRORISTS... HA...! Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
8/14/2006
