Comments on: Biden: We'll Change 2002 War Authorization

Biden Proposes To Repeal The Vote To Authorize The President To Go Into Iraq

[ressigmann]

to skyk
In a Republic the will of the people does not reign supreme. Our founding fathers choose this system so that if those in leadership felt the country needed to go into a different than what the people thought then that was the way to go.
"ELECTED Representatives sat down, debated the issue and voted on how to proceed" The constitution gives the President the right to veto what the "elected" representatives vote for.
"that's an issue of DEMOCRACY and FASCISM" both of these are non-issues in a Republic. Also President Bush is not a Fascist if he was you could expect to be arrested within the next few hours, since you will not be you might review the defining factors of fascism.
Just so you know the writers of the Constitution were social, moral, and religeous conservatives not old time liberals.

[briwas101]

In response to "The_Mirror" there is nothing wrong with using polls as a guage of public interest. It is unfortunate that "polls" has become a negative word. But that is what we get when we have a president who is proud of not reading the newspaper. I have been waiting 5 years for the public to awaken and realize how evil Bush is. The public isn't there yet, but atleast people are starting to pay attention. The key is to keep reminding people of the chain of events that led us to this point, and show how NONE of it was in our best interest. Unfortunately the Democrats have been cowards and they have been afraid of appearing to "not support the troops". Public opinion finally reached the point where even cowardly democrats started to feel like they could criticize the war. Don't be surprised if most Dems are still hesitant to attack the war with force, but there will be SOME Dems who realize that the party will be hurt if it DOESN'T attack Bush and his stupid war. If we can wait 5 years for dems to fight back, surely we can wait a few more months as the public turns increasingly against the war. Bush's surge will not produce the results that are needed to turn around the public's opinion. When the public realizes that the surge results in maybe one or two less soldiers killed per month, they will realize that in order to achieve the results they want, they would have to add about 200,000 more troops.

[skyk-2009]

What is this? Has the Reich Hate Machine competely broken. By now there should be at least 15 vile and hate filled message's about how Biden didn't look right or about how he was a "Lib" and can't be believed. Are they all in Fascism 101 getting a crash lesson in defeating the Will of the People while making it look like they are protecting us from Bin Laden? The Terror Threat Leavel should have jumped 2 levels by now as well.

[skyk-2009]

With senators and reps in congress- "the will of the people" is limited to those who put them office to begin with-so it only makes sense conservative vote conservative and libs vote liberal. Just because the majority of congress is made up of Liberal Democrats does not mean conservative should lay down and surrender the power afforded them by their constituents. Not every party is is fueled by the polls.
Posted by The_Mirror at 03:24 PM : Feb 18, 2007

Excuse me? Who asked anyone to lay down and surrender anything? You fascist have been spewing your hate so long you can't tell when you are confronted with the WILL of the People. How it's supposed to work Sparky... the way those ugly old liberals drew it up, was the ELECTED Representatives sat down, debated the issue and voted on how to proceed. That has ALL been short Circuited by our Southern Fascist Leader. HE took it upon himself to go ahead with the increase FULLY knowing what the election was about and fully knowing what the American People voted for. That's not a "Liberal" or "Conservative" issue, that's an issue of DEMOCRACY and FASCISM. One way compromise and the Will of the People is expressed. The other one indiviual's opinion is the ONLY one and there is no debate nor any will of the people. IF the Congress is allowed to act then we will know the "Will of the People".

[skyk-2009]

Vote all these "SURRENDER MONKEYS" out in 08
Posted by b48151 at 03:34 PM : Feb 18, 2007

"Surrender Monkeys"? Because the People of this nation say we need to follow NEW leaders and find a better and different way of doing something they are "Surrender Monkeys"? Where is your Nazi Youth Camp? EVEN for a Fascist Group that's pretty stupid...concidering the FACT that Sir Lies-A-Lot has yet to win ANYTHING? But then what's new? You Fascist have always loved your party more than our country now haven't you? ROFLMAO

[skyk-2009]

The People of this nation went to the polls and gave the President a message. Instead of listening to what the people said, he INCREASED the number of American's in Harms way. He simply told the American People they didn't matter, their democracy didn't matter, over 200 years of history didn't matter, he was superior to all of us and he would do it HIS way. Either we enforce the Will of the People through our elected Representatives OR we stop pretending. It's kinda rediculous to ask our kids to die giving OTHER people Democracy while we have a Dictator isn't it?

[the_mirror]

With senators and reps in congress- "the will of the people" is limited to those who put them office to begin with-so it only makes sense conservative vote conservative and libs vote liberal. Just because the majority of congress is made up of Liberal Democrats does not mean conservative should lay down and surrender the power afforded them by their constituents. Not every party is is fueled by the polls.

[ramos937]

Very simple...Senator Biden should introduce his legislation...the Democrats would support it....the House should have a veto proof majority...Question is the Senate...Those Republican senators up for relection in 2008 and voting again the Biden legislation would have to face an angry electorate.

[Razzl]

Shame on Republicans in the Senate for failing to honor the will of the public and protect the country from Bushes' massive abuse of power. I hope the 2008 election sees the extinction of the Republican Party in national politics. The party that Ulysses Grant turned into a tool of patronage and power-mongering for the wealthy classes has proven itself over and over of being incapable of exercising even the slightest degree of responsibility toward the best interests of the nation as a whole.