Nancy Pelosi Must Resign
For negotiating with a foreign government against the expressed wishes of the President.
Sphere: Related Content
Friday, April 06, 2007
Sphere: Related Content
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Blog stats
This amount of arrogance, the sheer impardonable pretension, is bound to be popular.
This I Believe
Remove his chains, placing upon a man no undue burden, and prepare to marvel at his industry and the good works of his gratitude.
Redistribute *This*
Citizen Without A License
Recent Works of Gratitude
-
▼
2007
(203)
-
▼
April
(44)
- Habitual Liars
- The Happy Chains of Individualism
- A Million Stand Up
- Stealing IMAO's Game
- The Magic of Diversity
- Obama to win by Affirmative Action?
- Who is Legislating Morality Now?
- Condi to Waxman: Nunya
- Support Democracy In Iraq
- Gross Receipts Tax Losing Support in Illinois
- Harry Reid Must Resign
- The Silver Bullet Syndrome
- Muslims Should Pray Only to Convert VaTech Victims
- Avoiding the Next School Massacre
- One Fiftieth Free
- A Tale of Two Names
- The Liberal Error
- The Police Cannot Protect You
- Islam's Sycophants
- He should be dead now.
- Michele Malkin: Political Ho
- Remember
- Governor Corzine, Get Well Soon
- The Latest Thing
- Hey Pelosi and Reid
- Doublestandardspeak
- Don't be Stupid
- The Balloon that Would Not Pop
- The Passive-Aggressive Party
- Embedded Reporters Considered Harmful
- Embryonic Stem Cell Research
- King Tolerance Abdicates
- He is Alive!
- Nancy Pelosi Must Resign
- The Darkest Hour
- The Goracle of Jon Cary
- Here There Be Monsters
- Libertarian SoCons
- Shall Not Be Infringed
- When Torture is Good
- Why Elections Matter
- Return them, or die.
- I am John Doe
- Supreme Court finds itself Unconstitutional
-
▼
April
(44)
Blogs I Troll
Note: This is my blog for politics and philosophy. It has very little to do with Socrates the Greek philosopher. It is not associated with Socrates Academy, a public charter school in North Carolina.
Blogroll Me
Sarah Palin is Awesome
I Laugh At
Stop the Obamunist Party
Only You can Prevent National Disasters
The Academy
Making sense the old fashioned way
Blog stats
2 comments:
And what of Darrell Issa, Joe Pitts, Robert Aderholt, and Frank Wolf? Republican congressmen all who also have been in Syria in recent days. Consistency would require these four Republicans resign as well.
The Logan Act forbids correspondence with foreign governments "without authority of the United States." One could argue that the Speaker of the House (third in line of succession) possesses that authority by right of her status.
One could also argue that several thousands of American businessmen violate this law on a daily basis as part of international commerce.
A law that has been in existence for 200 years, is routinely broken, and has never been successfully prosecuted does not seem to be a strong thread upon which to hang a Constitutional crisis.
It is not clear that the other Congressmen (who should not have gone to Syria, either) did any negotiation with Assad.
Only the President has the authority to negotiate with foreign powers. The Speaker does not.
"One could argue..."? Then do so. Give it a whirl. I could use a chuckle.
The age of a law is not germane, but the Logan act was amended in 1994, and the Speaker was well aware of its provisions.
Post a Comment