Alito’s Shocking Revelation (DC Yawns)

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When Biden questioned Alito on the extent of executive power, the gist of his question was this:

If the men and women in Congress, as representatives of the people, had passed a resolution that the United States MUST NOT invade Country X, could the President lawfully and constitutionally order an attack on Country X?

For any sane person, the answer would be "Absolutely Not!"

Shockingly, Alito asserted that he did not know whether or not the President had such authority: that he would have to wait until he was presented with a specific case to figure it out.

Perhaps Alito actually knows better and is just bending over backwards not to contradict King Bush, but if we take him at his word, his insane assertion that our simplest and most absolute tenets are "open questions" makes him so dangerous that even the most reactionary members would reject him out of hand if his statements ever penetrated their thick skulls.

Today Alito proved himself to be a menace to the sole moral principle on which this country was founded – the principle of consent of the governed. Alito has literally said that he doesn’t know if we are a fascist dictatorship or not. Either that or he’s just lying about what he wants us to be.

It was puzzling that Biden failed to express shock or point out the insanity of Alito's response, but if we proclaim our horror with the force of numbers, we can do more to send this insane man packing than anything that could be said in the hearings.

It’s time to contact members of Congress and the media; to get on the blogs and make it impossible for them to "gloss over" the dangerous insanity of his position.