george lemieux airs ignorance of constitution
shocked that a “US senator” orates stupidly, and outside the “law” he swore to support?
[...] “What we’ve seen over the past 42 days is, to me, a real dereliction of duty by this administration,” [Republican U.S. Sen. George] LeMieux said in an interview Thursday night. “The president comes down twice for photo ops and then goes back home to go golfing in Chicago.
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“The president is not the legislator in chief, he’s the commander in chief and this is an American problem. It’s not a British Petroleum problem. He needs to be down here getting the best minds, working with them every day on the ground. I expect to see the president three, four times a week in the gulf until this problem is solved.”
referring to a goonited state_ president as “commander in chief” of something other than the military is a foolish and dangerous affectation, reinforcing the modern delusion that he’s emperor of something beyond the GS crime gang (which superior writer robert higgs recently labeled “the liars, thieves, and murderers who style themselves the Government of the United States of America”). “CiC” swilling occupies the same twaddle variant as “running the country”, “leader of the free world”, etc.
constitution is clear enough:
Section. 2. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;
atop this normal error of wankfester lemieux lies, as usual, the tenth amendment. whence comes the assumption that commu-swami schlobama, or the commu-congress, is to have fuckall to do with BP’s disaster? testament to how low the “law and order” pukes in occupied central north america have sunk that the question doesn’t even get asked beyond the fringe — forget answered. “send the king! it’s federal!”
core gem of the rot quoted above: “It’s not a British Petroleum problem.”