The Current Crisis: Dems to the Rescue

The American Spectator, February 22, 2007 – R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. wrote,

WASHINGTON -- Wherever they are I hope the authors of our Constitution are pondering the spectacle now bedazzling Capitol Hill. In the admirable governing document that the Founding Fathers fashioned they made the president "Commander in Chief" of our military. Yet, according the novel reading of the newly elected Democratic majority, the Founding Fathers denied the president the instrumentalities to be commander-in-chief. For over two centuries, through wars large and small, American presidents have been equipping armies, deciding strategy, and sending those armies into battle. Now, however, along come the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, the Hon. Harry Reid, and the incomparable Hon. John P. Murtha with their exegesis of the Constitution. Continued...