Posted on 05/03/2011 3:33:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you don't have the courage to face off with David Gregory, how in the world can you face down Vladimir Putin?
Nothing you say or cite has anything to do with this conversation.
Whether the King had more authority than the President in 1789 is irrelevant. That Congress has considerable authority with respect to war making is not in dispute. I will try, one more time, to acquaint you with some basic facts about our constitutional order.
All branches of government are bound by the law, but all of them have to determine for themselves what the law requires. The Constitution is the supreme law and the President cannot be bound by a statute that, in his view, conflicts with the Constitution. Just as courts decide what the Constitution means for purposes of determining their own rules of decision and Congress decides what the Constitution means for purposes of determining what laws it can properly pass, the President determines what the Constitution means for purposes of performing the executive function. He decides what laws he can properly execute and what laws he cannot properly execute because they are unconstitutional.
Every President claims this prerogative. There is nothing controversial about it and it doesn’t amount to executive supremacy. The executive isn’t supreme, but neither is the judiciary and nor is the legislature. That is what separation of powers means.
Where, as with the War Powers Act, the judiciary will never weigh in on a question of constitutionality, the President’s responsibility to interpret the Constitution for himself is at it’s clearest. He isn’t going to get any advice from the Court, so he’s on his own. Congress and the President have to settle matters between themselves, and in this case they did so long ago.
Presidents have repeatedly concluded that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional and Congress has repeatedly failed to vindicate it. As a result the question is now closed. The War Powers Act is unconstitutional. Nothing in our constitutional law is more settled and citing the Federalist Papers for general pronouncements about war powers under the Constitution is just silly.
I gather you don’t like this. You would like to see a revolution in constitutional law that made the War Powers Act relevant again. Fine, but it isn’t going to happen. Come back from Never Never Land and deal with present realities.
I didn’t know Chris Matthews had an account here. Tell us more...
While I will not divulge sensitive specifics in this open forum, I would ask you to remember that, as Governor of Alaska, Palin was CIC of Alaska's Air National Guard, part of whose strategic tasking was (is) protecting American airspace from incursions by "roaming" russian military aircraft.
During Palin's tenure there were attempts (2) by The Rodina to test her mettle as Alaska's Commander in Chief, and it almost cost Vladidmir two Mig-29's and a high-altitude surveillance craft (similar to our AWACS). Putin never tried again while Sarah was at the helm.
I believe the specifics of some if not all of this will become public knowledge during the coming election, but that's not my call to make.
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You must live in that alternate universe where Joe Miller didn't lose that race to a WRITE IN candidate.
Sarah Palin is so unpopular in her own home state, her hand-picked candidate couldn't beat the likes of Lisa Murkowski.
You don't need Chris Matthews to spin that. Res ipsa loquitur
I don’t understand this obsession with some kind of rule about pinging to someone one is insulting.
I prefer to insult people like you behind your back.
I have zero respect for you and your ilk. You come on all Sarah Palin threads, simply to insult and dismiss her.
What do you want? Is it attention? If so, you get far too much of that. I wish we had an ignore button on Free Republic so that I wouldn’t have to see your puerile comments.
And you won't see one, because Governor Palin isn't "afraid" to sit down with anybody. Neither does she enjoy the luxury of time to waste on people who have repeatedly proven themselves to be partisan lie-bot agents provocateur of this felonious Quisling Administration.
Capisce, douche-bag?
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And, apparently Palin is too feckless to counter those "assaults". You're proving my point, and you don't even know it.
"Governor of Alaska, Palin was CIC of Alaska's Air National Guard, part of whose strategic tasking was (is) protecting American airspace from incursions by "roaming" russian military aircraft."
Look, you might find some other rube to believe this, but this idiotic story has absolutely no credibility with me. Why? Because as a former military legal officer, I fully understand the principle of "national command authority" as defined by the Goldwater-Nichols act and as it specifically relates to our national air sovereignty. The ONLY organization that is legally tasked to ensure that sovereignty is United States Northern Command(NORTHCOM), and it's subservient commands, NORAD and First Air Force(1 AF-AFNORTH)
State Governors, to include our "hero" Sarah Palin, are NOT included in that national command authority, in ANY way, at any time, ever. They do not have ANY command authority (or influence) in the operations that ensure our national air sovereignty, EVER. ALL command authority comes from one place, and one place ONLY, the Unified Combatant Command - NORTHCOM in this particular instance, and they - per the Goldwater-Nichols Act, ONLY take direction from the President of the United States through the Secretary of Defense. Period.
All assets, to include ALL national guard assets, assigned to NORTHCOM/First Air Force and engaged in air sovereignty missions are at the SOLE command of NORTHCOM. When are governors consulted in this command process? NEVER. But hey, don't take my word for it, just read the Goldwater-Nichols Act. Russians have been violating American air space for DECADES. And after a 15-year or so respite from these incursions, they started up again. How did we respond? Well, listen to what Adm. James A. Winnefeld, Jr., head of the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), said in an interview
Your story is ridiculously absurd. Sarah Palin has NEVER "faced down" Vladimir Putin, or any Russian leader. Some of the crap you people come up with is really breathtaking.
I wouldn't expect anything less from a mindless coward.
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard.
Question: What is the ONLY National Guard unit on permanent active duty?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard
Question: Who is the Commander in Chief of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor is routinely briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor has a higher classified security rating than any candidate for the Democrat Party?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin
You really don't know quite as much as you'd like everyone here to believe you do, do you?
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Honestly, do you have a reading comprehension problem? Do you not understand the concept of combatant control?
Governors do not wield ANY operational command authority of national guard assets that are engaged in sovereign security missions. EVER. Irrespective of where those sovereign security assets are domiciled, the governor has NOTHING to do with their deployment in national missions. Nothing.
No matter how much you want to make it so, governors are NOT the "commander-in-chief" of ANY asset that is tasked to a national sovereignty mission.
As for the rest of your diatribe, you forgot to put those statements in the past-tense. Sarah Palin no longer possesses any security clearance. She lost it the day she quit. She no longer receives any national security briefings. Those stopped the day she quit.
"What U.S. governor has a higher classified security rating than any candidate for the Democrat Party?"
Sarah Palin NEVER had a higher classified security rating than any of the 2008 candidates for the Democrat Party, nor would she have enjoyed a higher rating than any of the current Republican candidates that hold federal office. Why? Because Governors do not have operational control, nor do they have any federal oversight responsibility, so they are never privy to operational secrets except for the ones that happen within their state. Of course, every governor receives DHS and other counter-terrorism briefs, but there's nothing special about the state of Alaska.
Again, some of the crap you people come up with is AMAZING.
Blow it out your wrinkled aft tube, squid. You're not fooling anyone.
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The 49th Missile Defense Battalion is on permanent active duty as a component of the 100th Missile Defense Brigade with HQ in Colorado.
Palin never was its commander. No matter how much you wish that this were not true, it is. She had no more control or influence over the operation of this unit than any civilian did.
"Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks. It’s on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units."
"As governor of Alaska, Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism. Her exposure to classified material may rival even Baden's."
"She's also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security's counter terrorism plans."
"Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to the entire country's defense. Given Alaska's proximity to Russia, she may have security clearances we don't even know about."
"According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to keeping secrets."
"She can be entrusted with our national security, because she already is."
So jam it, squid.
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"Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks. It’s on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units."
"As governor of Alaska, Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism. Her exposure to classified material may rival even Baden's."
"She's also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security's counter terrorism plans."
"Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to the entire country's defense. Given Alaska's proximity to Russia, she may have security clearances we don't even know about."
"According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to keeping secrets."
"She can be entrusted with our national security, because she already is."
So jam it, squid.
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Where has that been noted? What is the source? Is it fact (if yes cite source) or convenient speculation?
Whatever they believe or don't believe is really none of my concern. But, the cock-n-bull story that you fabricated about Sarah Palin "facing down Vladimir Putin", has been THOROUGHLY discredited.
That's all I care about.
Sarah Palin was the governor of the least populated state in the Union, and she only could manage to do the job for less than 30-months before she bowed to political pressure. I don't need to say anything else, because that says it all.
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