81 - Cons Try To Con Us About Con Law: Bush/Cheney Claim About Unfettered Presidential War Powers Is Totally Bogus

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🗓️ 15 February 2007

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today we're going to discuss the phony claim by George Bush and Dick Cheney that Bush has unfettered power to wage war in Iraq -- and one assumes elsewhere -- as he sees fit. Congressional oversight? Surely you jest.In law school you usually take at least a beginning course in constitutional law. The subject is often referred to as con law. The situation with Bush and Cheney thus can be

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 81 of Blast the Right.
0:23.6	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:26.9	Today we're going to discuss some phony claims by George Bush and Dick Cheney about Bush's
0:36.1	allegedly unfettered power to wage war in Iraq and one assumes elsewhere as he sees fit.
0:44.1	Congressional oversight?
0:45.8	Surely you just.
0:47.9	You'll hear my first ever interview of a right-winger, a fairly prominent commentator.
0:53.4	On this topic, it's a friendly conversation.
0:56.8	Intrigued?
0:57.8	Oh, let's get right into it.
1:00.6	My sources are, and they're all dot coms, unless I say otherwise, an editorial observer
1:05.8	column by Adam Cohn in The New York Times, Tom Payne, Find Law, The Nation, The Washington
1:12.1	Times, The Lichfield Group, The website of the Senate Judiciary Committee, The website
1:17.1	of Representative Dennis Kucinich, VOA News, PrairieWeather.tipad, wamu.org, and Fox News,
1:25.8	CBSN, CNN.
1:28.2	In law school, you usually take at least a beginning course in constitutional law.
1:33.1	The subject is often referred to as con law.
1:36.3	The situation with Bush and Cheney thus can be described as cons trying to con us about
1:42.1	con law.
1:43.7	Dick Cheney recently told us all he feels we need to know about the constitutional issues
1:48.7	involved here.
1:49.7	You cannot run a war by committee, you know, the Constitution is very clear that the
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