Comments on: Obama, Levin wrong on war powers

By: 4limitedgov

4limitedgov — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:28:33 +0000

To my knowledge, Mark Levin has NEVER said the president can send our military to war on his word ALONE. No one in their right mind would agree with that. I believe what Mark said was that a president, in time of emergency, when we’ve been attacked, can declare war, but must then get Congressional approval.

I think both the author and the ONE commenter are being disingenuous, and to call Mark a NEO-CON is inexcusable.

You people had better start finding some common ground to stand on, and stop looking for perfection. Obama and his commie friends are just delighted when they see infighting, as that is just the kind of division they can put a wedge into. If Obama and his cohorts aren’t stopped VERY soon, this country will be toast, and you won’t even be able to argue constitutionality, because the Constitution will be DEAD, along with your first Amendment rights, and a lot of Americans.

Get your sh*t together.

By: 4limitedgov

4limitedgov — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:28:33 +0000

I think both the author and the ONE commenter are being disingenuous, and to call Mark a NEO-CON is inexcusable.

Get your sh*t together.

By: algernon

algernon — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:07:16 +0000

Out of curiosity and sheer boredom I glanced Levin's website and his recommended reading list. I think what he lists as must reads reveals where he is coming from on the war powers issue and many other constitutional issues as well. Here are the highlights: Rumsfeld, Bill Benett about the War on Terror, Gingrich, all of Hannity's books, Rove, Palin, Coulter, Bolton, a book on Cheney, Tom DeLay, and Rush Limbaugh. To be fair he has Goldwater and Hayek on his list too but they are at the end. Now don't get me wrong, if you want to understand the derailing of conservatism or the decline of the Old Right Jeffersonian types in the conservative movement and the rise of a new crop of conservative reformulation this is a great list. Unfortunately as we've seen, Levin represents not a recommitment to liberty after the Bush years but a reaffirmation of the liberty-killing foreign policy and tendencies of neoconservatives.