LOOSE CANONS
Leon Panetta: Clueless or Brazen?
If not for Sen. Jeff Sessions, who would protect our Constitution from assault by Obama, Panetta & Co.?
President Obama and his congressional cohorts have never paid much attention to our Constitution. Nancy Pelosi laughed off the idea of considering it when Obamacare was debated.
Much the same is true whether Obama is implementing Obamacare or brushing aside other constitutional limits on his powers. Remember the "concession" he made on requiring religious institutions to pay for contraception? He just amended the regulations to require the insurance companies to pay for it, without anyone paying them back. That, my friends, is what we call a "Fifth Amendment taking" for which the government -- by seizing something belonging to a private citizen -- is responsible to pay the damaged party, even if it is an insurance company.
Such constitutional abuses are commonplace these days, but last Thursday the Obama regime took a far more sweeping and dark turn in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was testifying on possible military action against Syria. Under questioning by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), Panetta said some things that need to be set out clearly before I analyze or characterize them.
The issue is Congress's power to declare war.
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