If you're referring to my post about EO's, you read too much into my statement and your assumptions are your own. An EO that allows assassination of an American citizen is a de facto legislative act. Problem is that EO's are never challenged, as they should be.
The Executive branch's power under Obongo is absolutely out of control. He's more like Hugo Chavez than anything I can think of.
No, it was an entirely different post and the writing style was much shriller, it was either one of Javelin's or Scott's but the thread's very long and I wanted to finish the post before it got buried even deeper. The post about Congress having the power to wage war to which I referred was pretty close to the way I paraphrased it, and was talking about the power to conduct war generally, not about the EOs or findings.
The entire findings process really comes from an era where there was not an extant state of global war as a backdrop, so it is not well-matched to the entire GWOT concept. Thus, the way this really functions is kind of a patchwork of overlapping turf issues between State, DOD, CIA, and the NCA on the one hand who approach it as a warfare issue, and a faction that approaches it from a domestic legal perspective on the other, such as the AG, Main DOJ, and FBI Counterintelligence/Counterterrorism. Really the abuse of power is to some accidental extent kept in check by the incredible Byzantine inefficiency of our Executive organization.
I'm certainly no fan of Obummer and his power grabs, but he just isn't as gregarious as Chavez, he is more like the personality of a Wilson combined with the capability of a Carter, plus the intelligence (cough), low cunning, and connections of a Kennedy.
