[Rummyfan]

...for the first time in American history, a president will simply impose a treaty on the country without even the pretense of seeking and obtaining the advice and consent of the Congress.

So much for living in a representative republic. And I make no distinction - Boehner and McConnell are just as guilty of treason as Obama and Kerry are.

[Jacquerie]

<>So much for living in a representative republic.<>

?

The American people are thoroughly represented up and down and sideways across DC in congress and the presidency. Yet we are on the cusp of a police state. How can that be?

It doesn't make sense until one realizes our governing institutions no longer serve their designed purposes. Does congress actually legislate or does it enable the executive to make arbitrary regs/law? Does it conduct oversight of the agencies it created? Does congress serve to secure our inalienable rights? Does congress or Obama determine spending? Finally, the senate has voted to give Obama the treaty power.

Institutions designed for free government have been corrupted into forms that do the opposite; they serve to enable and condone tyranny.