Sarge's Blog

This is one American that has just about had enough of our self-serving, self-grandising, self-interested Congress -- BOTH houses.  How many times are 575 ALLEDGEDLY representatives of the people going to waste time on legislation that, if the President is smart enough, will be shot down by the US Supreme Court as a violation of the separation of powers?  I'm talking about the House and Senate bills that would call for a redeployment of our armed forces from Iraq.

The Constitution of the United States is VERY specific on this issue .... the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief of all US armed forces.  Nowhere is the US Congress given any part of the military chain-of-command -- it goes from the grunt on the ground, to his/her commander, to the CinC of the individual services, to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the SecDef, to the President.  No entity or agency outside of that chain has ANY authority to direct troop movements and dispoitions.

Congress' role in the "checks & balances" part of government is to control the purse; if the President wishes to embark on an adventure the Congress does not (or no longer) approves of, it cuts off funding.  That's it; that is THEIR role to ensure that no part of government has absolute control of the nation's armed forces.  They don't get to direct movement or disposition, but they DO get to cut off funding for such actions.

Are they doing that?  No.  What are they doing?  Trying to ursurp powers that the Constitution places squarely and solely with the Executive Branch of government in the person of the President of the United States.  While our borders remain wide-open, while illegal immigrants drain state coffers for welfare, medical, and infrastructure, while the homeless (which includes a LARGE number of military veterans) shuffle from underpass to culvert, while the VA avoids treament of our vets or provides substandard care in less-than-sanitary facilities, while the armed forces separates wounded vets under the callous "personality disorder" excuse to avoid providing treatment, while the FDA is understaffed/underfunded and our food supply poses a real and present danger to the citizenry of this nation, our (so-called) representatives open their mouths and discharge from those haughty orifices what the lower-middle-class and poverty-level citizenry usually associate with sewers and septic tanks.  While oil companies continue to record higher and higher PROFIT margins (that's NET income, folks), while special interest groups BUY the attention of OUR representatives, while billions of dollars worth of Congressional I.O.U.'s sit in the Social Security TRUST FUND, the 575 morons sitting in the Legislative Branch of our federal government in Washington, DC spend hundreds of thousands of manhours and unlimited resources doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR US.

And I've just about had my fill of it .......