Editorial - Rob Simmons & the Constitution

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From the Manchester Journal-Inquirer:

Simmons and the Constitution
09/26/2006

Courtney said a new, Democratic Congress could force the president to change his foreign policy, at least somewhat.

Simmons scoffed at the idea. This is not France, he seemed to imply. Even a vote of "no confidence," in the form of losing Republican majorities in the Congress, cannot change the fact that the president has two years left in his term of office, and he is commander in chief.

To Simmons that apparently means absolute presidential power.

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Simmons was condescending to Courtney the other night. He was "the voice of experience" in Washington. He acted like the cocky insider. He also said, for the first time on record, that he initially thought the war on Iraq was ill-advised. Well, his constitutional obligation in that case was to vote against it. Instead he voted yes. He voted party over Constitution.

It is Simmons who does not understand our system. And he is the one who failed in his duty - to check executive power in matters of peace and war.

http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17246894&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=565859&rfi=6


Joe Courtney (2nd district against Rob Simmons)
http://www.joecourtney.com/contribute.php