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3. They are prescribing the wrong cure for the disease
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 09:18 AM
Dec 2018

A president (in his right mind, anyway) needs to be able to handle our foreign policy to a large degree. It's not a 100 person body that meets with foreign leaders at summit meetings, it's the president.

We don't have the wrong policy, we have the wrong president. Congress doesn't have to make a change in the functions of the legislative and executive branches, which would come dangerously close to altering the separation of powers as laid out in the Constitution. Congress DOES have the power to alter the identity of the president: impeachment, trial and removal from office.

If they are not willing, as the legislative branch is empowered to do, to remove an incompetent president from office (and, since he is a Republican, they aren't), then at least the Republicans in Congress should shut up. They are blowing hot air out their asses. They say Trump is either misusing (or not using) the foreign policy powers given to him by the Constitution? I agree. But that means we need another president, not another version of the Constitution.

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