[lbo-talk] Congress could force withdrawal from Iraq

[Shane Mage]

Michael Pollack wrote:
>...Joint Resolutions require either Presidential signatures or 
>2/3rds majorities, and neither is available.  That fact seems to 
>confirm that it is true that Congress can't do anything alone -- 
>unless the majority for doing so is huge.

This is true, but there is a very simple way around the veto.  Acts by
individual Houses of Congress are not subject to presidential veto, so
instead of a Joint Resolution the House and the Senate could each
adopt identical Resolutions of Disavowal.  Since such resolutions,
joint or separate, have no force of law, both houses, by adopting
identical resolutions, would achieve exactly the same moral and
political effects (if any) as they would with a joint resolution.

Shane Mage

"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is 
and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out 
in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30