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To: tejek who wrote (186035)	4/5/2004 3:20:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574386

Yes, you are being too literal......the 'declaration of war' did not emanate from Congress but from the WH. Then you don't mean the formal term "declaration of war" but rather a declaration (pronouncement, declarative statement) that we are at war. Even looked at this way I'm not sure you are right but I'm not sure your wrong either so I'm not going to argue that you are wrong. Forget the GOP......the Dems were bludgeoned into going to war. If you voted against the war, you were unAmerican and unpatriotic. So they had no choice but to cave when confronted with insults and accusations? A real rubber stamp legislature is one where when the legislators don't do what the executive (or party, or religious leadership or whatever) want they get kicked out (with no vote or wait for the end of their term), ignored (their vote against the executive's plan is not recorded or is recorded as a vote for the executive), arrested, tortured, and/or killed. A rubber stamp legislature can not do anything but "rubber stamp" what the executive proposes. If they choose to vote or not to vote on something because they think that it will hurt their election chances that doesn't make them members of a rubber stamp legislature. As for a majority.....its substantive in the House and slim in the Senate. Not that substantive in the House. Its not enough to stop a filibuster. Tim