Alexander Hamilton, Syria & the Imperial Presidency

"The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. . . . It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and Admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and the raising and regulating of fleets and armies, -- all of which by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature."

Alexander Hamilton

  (The Federalist Papers, 69, 1788.)

By Gary;

Syria is not some BS Democrat vs. Republican issue.  The debate for war cuts across party lines and comes down to Authoritarianism vs. Constitutional Federalism. 

Alexander Hamilton had it right.  No one man should be able to send a nation to war against another nation that has not even threatened to attack the U.S.  Congress has that power.

The rapid spread of news and ideas through a free Internet Media forced a vote in the British Parliament that defeated war.

The British defeat caused the war plans of the bipartisan Washington Elite to be thrown off balance, and forced Obama to seek Congressional approval.  The Elites are not used to the Internet Media that can point out the BS and lies of both government and their lap-dog establishment media.

In many ways it will be a phony debate.  Congress has pretended for a long time now that the CIA was not active in funding and arming the Syrian rebels.  We have already been at war using Islamic Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States as front men.

What the debate is really about is should the U.S. go in the deep end of the pool or stay in the shallow end and go on pretending we are not supporting the rebels.

Syrian Rebels.
The bipartisan Washington Elites have already been running an unconstitutional war in Syria through the CIA.  A vote by Congress only gives the Elites legal cover to expand their actions.

Warmongers line up to back Obama
The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen were not enough.  Now the Washington Elites want to go into Syria.


Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, former CIA director, called strongly Saturday for Congress to back the White House on Syria, declaring that military action against the regime is “necessary” to deter “Iran, North Korea and other would-be aggressors.”

“Failure of Congress to approve the president’s request would have serious ramifications not just in the Mideast but around the world,” Petraeus said in a four-sentence statement provided to Politico.

Nancy Pelosi  -  “It is in our national interest to respond to the Syrian government’s unspeakable use of chemical weapons."

John McCain  -  “I think it would be a very serious situation where we are now 535 commanders in chief. Look, the president of the United States is the only commander.”

Eric Cantor  -  “There are no easy solutions and a one-off military strike is not by itself an adequate strategy, but I am convinced that the risks of inaction outweigh the risks of a limited intervention."

Peter King  -  Presidents from both parties have not hesitated to take quick and effective military action when they believed it was essential to our national interest. And they did it without seeking prior approval from Congress.  These presidents acted pursuant to their constitutional and statutory powers as commander-in-chief. They knew that for America's security and credibility, we cannot have 535 commanders-in-chief.


Pat Buchanan Syria Is Dress Rehearsal For War With Iran

Thank you CIA for your support.

Obama regime had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011

The Death of the Republic

Secret Courts making secret rulings so the Secret Police can

piss on the Constitution and secretly spy on everyone.

The regime of Dear Leader Obama secretly won permission from a secret surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to secretly search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.

In addition, the secret court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

What had not been previously acknowledged is that the court in 2008 imposed an explicit ban — at the government’s request — on those kinds of searches, that officials in 2011 got the court to lift the bar and that the search authority has been used reports the Washington Post.

Together the permission to search and to keep data longer expanded the NSA’s authority in significant ways without public debate or any specific authority from Congress.

The administration’s assurances rely on legalistic definitions of the term “target” that can be at odds with ordinary English usage. The enlarged authority is part of a fundamental shift in the government’s approach to surveillance: collecting first, and protecting Americans’ privacy later.

“The government says, ‘We’re not targeting U.S. persons,’ ” said Gregory T. Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “But then they never say, ‘We turn around and deliberately search for Americans’ records in what we took from the wire.’ That, to me, is not so different from targeting Americans at the outset.”

The secret court decision allowed the NSA “to query the vast majority” of its e-mail and phone call databases using the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of Americans and legal residents without a warrant, according to Bates’s opinion.


Governments Should Be Afraid of their People

Australia elects its first Libertarian Senator

 

By Jim Fryar
Real World Libertarian

After a history making effort, the libertarian Liberal Democratic Party is welcoming our new provisional senator, David Leyonhjelm who scored the fifth senate spot in NSW. Who said we would be battling it out for the final place??????

 

It could have been even better had the Liberals had the sense to preference us ahead of The Palmer United Party, which would have won us a second seat in Tasmania, where our candidate came a whisker short.  The Libs will pay for this in a big way, as we are essentially classical liberals while PUP has a populist grab-bag of policies varying from left of the greens, to the far right of Abbott.

 

In most of the other states we had the third or fourth highest tally of votes at the end of the night.

While we bask in the kudos of the breakthrough, everyone and his dog are talking about us and seeking more information to the point where our website crashed from overuse.  The Liberal Dems are on the way.

 

David Leyonhjelm is to be elected a
Senator after his Liberal Democrats
Party drew the first box on the NSW
Senate ballot.
Read more: (smh.com.au)

Not all of the conversation is happy talk.  The normally sensible ABC election annalist, Antony Green and others are claiming that David's position of first on the ballot caused Liberals to get all confused and in a tizz, bringing about his election.  

 

While we probably benefited from this, it is a little rich to claim that the 8.9% who voted for him were Liberal Party members who cant read very well.  We were conspicuously in second place on the ballot in WA without that happening, so perhaps Antony thinks WA Liberals are much smarter than NSW ones.

 

Perhaps some of the warnings that were issued by the Liberals, that the Liberal Democrats at the head of the ballot were not the Liberal Party drew some attention to us and caused people to have a better look at us and they liked what they saw.



I had a good result in WA with nearly 3.5% but lost out to the Sports Party. We got a little bit of favorable press this time, which was better than the normal cloak of invisibility that gets thrown over us.

 

Overall we increased our vote in every state except Queensland where the Palmer billions crushed us along with all other small parties.

Overall though, we are in a great position to go on to win from here.  In most states we achieved a sufficient primary vote to win with in any other election than this one, which had two new well-funded parties who took most of the oxygen out of the campaign.

 

We now have a voice in federal parliament, which cannot be ignored and a healthy base of enthusiastic supporters who have tasted victory and want to pig out on it.  The sky’s the limit, or perhaps even higher. 

 

Of the two new parties, Katter's saved Labor from defeats in Queensland, while both his and Palmer's did preference deals that resulted in the election of Luddite Greens senators in both Qld and WA.  

This should be neither forgiven, nor forgotten.

 

Australian Senate
There is a total of 76 senators; 12 senators are elected from each state, regardless of population, and the two autonomous internal territories have two senators each.
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Unlike upper houses in most parliamentary systems, the Senate is vested with significant power, including the capacity to block legislation initiated by the government in the House of Representatives, making it a distinctive hybrid of British Westminster bicameralism and US-style bicameralism.

 

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Gun-loving Liberal Democrats pull

off greatest election fluke

It is a gun-loving fringe party with a similar name to the new government, but the Liberal Democrats made no apologies for pulling off one of the biggest electoral flukes in Australian history.

Having sneaked 8.5 per cent of the vote - the backing of a staggering 283,000 people - in New South Wales, the six-year-old Liberal Democrats are set to gain at least one Senate seat, veteran election analyst Antony Green said.

Top candidate David Leyonhjelm, who believes we should carry handguns and that marijuana should be legal, admitted many punters had confused his fledgling party with the Liberals but said he was happy to take their votes.

Mr Leyonhjelm plans to form a "loose but powerful" coalition with other fringe parties who performed well, which may include the Australian Sports Labor Party, Motor Enthusiasts Party and one of two likely Palmer United senators including former rugby league great Glenn Lazarus.

"It looks like there will be a small political party senator for each state, so control of the Senate will very likely be in the hands of these parties," he said.

"We are very strong supporters of these parties and we will work together to bring democracy to the Senate."

Read more: (news.com.au/national-news)

Sunday Comics



Flashback Cartoon . . . Remember when
George Bush "liberating" Iraq worked our so very well.

DNA Evidence Frees Black Man Convicted Of Bear Attack

American "parents" abandon their own children to Socialist Big Government

American Parents Become Pathetic Losers

Incapable of preparing food for their own children, moronic

mouth-breathing "parents" turn over the job to government.

"Free" breakfast and lunch provided by schools.  Big Socialist Government has taken over the job of the parent to feed their own children.  These so-called "adults" can't even manage to put cereal and milk in a fucking bowl and hand it to their kid.

"It's one less weight and one less burden for parents," said Joshua Rivera, whose son is a second-grader at the Maurice J. Tobin School in Boston's Roxbury section.

Oh the HORROR.  Oh the BURDEN of pealing a banana and giving it to a child.

Boston, the nation's oldest school system has joined a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that has spread to 10 states and the District of Columbia that offers students two free meals every school day to every student, whether or not their families can afford them.

Known as Community Eligibility Option, the program is part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 that authorized $4.5 billion in new program funding reports the Associated Press.

Everyone is sucking on the public teat.

Besides easing hunger, school officials said, the program helps erase a stigma that plagued some students from poor families.

Boston joins schools in Michigan, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in a program that will be available across the country starting in the 2014-2015 school year.

Efrain Toledano, principal of the Tobin School, said he expects the program will cut down on potential disruptions at the K-8 school by easing hunger pangs that could be linked to classroom misbehavior.  (Look at the Bullshit flow.)

An Atlanta Public Schools spokeswoman said students at 58 of the city's 100 public schools started getting free breakfast and lunch this year under the program. A spokeswoman for District of Columbia Public Schools said 76 out of 111 district schools are part of the program, which started there in the last school year.

Detroit Public Schools joined the federal program during the 2011-12 school year, and a spokeswoman said 52,000 breakfasts and 60,000 lunches were served daily to students in the last school year.

In western Michigan, an administrator with Grand Rapids Public Schools said the district has been serving free breakfast and lunch for its 17,000 students since the 2012-2013 school year started.

A Bi-Partisan Society of Retards.
We now live is a society of so-called "adults" who have neither the pride, intelligence nor the ability to spread peanut butter on bread and send it to school for their child to eat. 
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Big Socialistic Government is taking over the role of the parent.  Now with more free time, these "parents" can play with their shiny new Obamaphones or go shopping for that new crack pipe they have always wanted.
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Remember, every dollar spent on this fucking stupid program was approved by the Democrat Senate and the "Conservative" GOP House.  Socialism is bi-partisan.  

The Gay Attack on Freedom of Speech

A Gay Attack on the 1st Amendment

Homosexuals have moved from wanting equality to

crushing freedom of thought, religion and association.

First let me say that I could care less what the Hell private individuals do in their own lives.  It is none of my business.  In fact I have many friends and clients who are Gay.  Live and let live is my motto.

But there is a concerted Leftist/Gay attack going on against those who dare to hold different opinions.  And that Thought Police type Bullshit must be opposed.


Story #1
Christian Airman who refused Lesbian Commander’s order to say he supported Gay marriage now may face possible Court-Martial


Update on Breitbart's earlier report on Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk, a Christian serving in the Air Force whose unit is now commanded by a lesbian: according to Monk’s complaint filed with his superiors, he was relieved of duty for refusing his commander’s order to say he supports gay marriage.

Now the Air Force has taken the first steps to criminally investigate Monk for talking to the media about his situation. Despite the fact that earlier this year the Obama-Hagel Pentagon said they would never court-martial a service member for their Christian faith, they have taken the first steps to possibly court-martial Monk reports Breitbart News.

On Aug. 27, an Air Force investigator met with Monk and his attorney, Mike Berry from Liberty Institute. Berry expected it to be a routine meeting to take a statement from his client, but during the meeting the investigator said that he would read Monk his Miranda rights.

Monk was advised that he is being investigated for committing a crime by the U.S. military for making a false official statement, that he has the right to remain silent, and that he has the right to an attorney. The Air Force then assigned military defense counsel to him and is deciding whether to formally charge him with a crime, at which point Monk would either have to admit guilt and accept further punishment or face a court martial.

Monk is being investigated and might be formally charged for violating Article 107 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), which makes it a crime to make a false official statement. But Monk’s explaining his situation to the media is not an official statement.

More than that, another element of this alleged crime is that Monk must be making a statement he knows is false or that he reasonably should know is false. All Monk is saying is that he believes he’s being punished because of his traditional Christian beliefs.

Monk explained in a statement to Breitbart News, “I immediately got the sense that this was a retaliation against me for coming forward with my religious discrimination complaint.”

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Story #2
San Antonio passes ordinance banning anyone who opposes homosexuality from receiving a city contract.


San Antonio’s leaders on Thursday approved anti-bias protections for gay and transgender residents, over the disapproval of top Texas Republicans and religious conservatives who packed a City Council hearing and occasionally shamed supporters for comparing the issue to the civil rights movement.

The 8-3 City Council vote in favor of the ordinance was a victory for gay rights advocates and for Democratic Mayor Julian Castro, a top surrogate of President Barack Obama. Castro has called the ordinance overdue in the nation’s seventh-largest city, where there is a stronger current of traditionalism and conservatism than other major Texas cities that already have similar gay rights protections reports the Associated Press.

Opponents say the ordinance – which takes effect immediately – would stifle religious expression and does not have the support of most of the city’s residents.

 

“The problem I have is that you criminalize us if we speak our faith,” said Marc Longoria, 42, a pastor at My Father’s House Church. “We are Christians all the time. We don’t have an on and off switch.”

 

One side of the room would erupt in cheers or give a standing ovation depending on the remarks toward the 11-member council. Some turned around to address their opponents in the audience directly.

 

“My parents and my grandparents rode the back of the bus,” said Sylvia Villarreal, who urged the council to vote no. “And I say shame on them for comparing this to civil rights.”

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Story #3
Boy Scouts, Little League, Future Farmers must take Transvestites or lose tax-exempt status


The People's Republic of California - An insane California bill that would strip tax-exempt status from the Boy Scouts of America and other “discriminatory” nonprofit youth-serving groups if they refused to accept transvestites, gays or lesbians.

Many of these private clubs are faith based and connected to churches. Liberal fascists want to tell private organizations who is allowed to be members.

The first-of-its-kind bill, SB 323, passed the California Senate and sailed through Assembly committees to a floor vote, possibly this week.

The bill, introduced by nutcase State Sen. Ricardo Lara, names the Boy Scouts, Little League, Future Farmers of America and 19 other organizations as examples of groups that could be stripped of their tax-exempt status if found to discriminate based on gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, race, religion or religious affiliation reports the Washington Times.

The measure also threatens tax-exempt status for public and private schools found to sponsor discriminatory youth groups. One critic said it could even threaten an exemption status held by a church.

“Traditional values regarding heterosexuality are being branded as the legal equivalent of racism, and so there’s the quite genuine fear that the tax code really is the battleground against the traditional churches,” said Alan Reinach, executive director of Church State Council, which opposes SB 323.

“It’s not about ‘live and let live.’ If the churches do not conform to the values of homosexuality, then we will lose our standing in society,” he said.
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Scott Walter at the Philanthropy Daily blog called the bill “totalitarian” and said it misunderstood a basic premise: that tax-exempt status is given to legitimate service organizations, not just those that are government-preferred or popular.

Government Satellites to Control Your Car's Speed

 

1984 Comes to Your Car

New technology allows Big Brother to control the speed of
your car.  Stop thinking and obey your Masters. 

 

All European Union cars could be fitted with devices that stop them going over 70 mph.

Under the proposals new cars would be fitted with cameras that could read road speed limit signs and automatically apply the brakes when this is exceeded.

Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, is said to be opposed to the plans, which could also mean existing cars are sent to garages to be fitted with the speed limiters, preventing them from going over 70 mph reports the UK Telegraph.
 

Big Brother is Watching You.
Your every move is watched and recorded.
Enemies of the state will be dealt with later.

The new measures have been announced by the European Commission’s Mobility and Transport Department as a measure to reduce the 30,000 people who die on the roads in Europe every year.

A Government source told the Mail on Sunday McLoughlin had instructed officials to block the move because they ‘violated’ motorists’ freedom. They said: “This has Big Brother written all over it and is exactly the sort of thing that gets people's backs up about Brussels.

“The Commission wanted his views ahead of plans to publish the proposals this autumn. He made it very clear what those views were.”

The source claimed one of the reasons he was against the Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) scheme is that the UK has a better road safety record than other European countries – with 1,754 people dying in road accidents last year compared to 3,657 in Germany.

The scheme would work either using satellites, which would communicate limits to cars automatically, or using cameras to read road signs. Drivers can be given a warning of the speed limit, or their speed could be controlled automatically under the new measures.

A spokesman for the European Commission said: “There is a currently consultation focusing on speed-limiting technology already fitted to HGVs and buses.

“Taking account of the results, the Commission will publish in the autumn a document by its technical experts which will no doubt refer to ISA among many other things.”

 

 Can the Government Hack Into Your Car?

"The peculiar circumstances of journalist Michael Hastings' death in Los Angeles have unleashed a wave of conspiracy theories.
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Now there's another theory to contribute to the paranoia: According to a prominent security analyst, technology exists that could've allowed someone to hack his car. Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post that what is known about the single-vehicle crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack."

 

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Australia - Satellites may control your car

Will enemies of the state "accidentally" ram into

walls with their car?

The transport authorities’ obsession with the speeding has taken a step further. The Victorian Government will soon begin testing a device that can electronically slow a car using satellite technology.

The project is dubbed AISAI, Australasian Intelligent Speed Adaptation Initiative, and will be the first of its kind in Australia.

The first guinea pigs will be Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon, a former Victorian coroner plus other Victorian Government ministers and an estimated 45 other participants.

According to the Herald Sun, all state and territory governments as well as New Zealand have been in talks to introduce the system for some time. Depending on results, the project will move to NSW and Western Australia later reports Car Advice News.

The system will cost anywhere between $700 and $2000 per vehicle to install and it is expected to find its way into government fleet cars first.

So how does it work? It’s not that different to your every satellite navigation – only that it interfaces with your car’s electronic systems. It knows where you are and it has a database of all speed limits on Australia roads.

Firstly it works out how fast you’re going by taking an average reading of your changing position divided by time -it then runs the speed past the database to see if you’re breaking the speed limit – then begins the pain.

There are three levels of operation:

• Level one will simply give you an annoying audible warning when you go over the speed limit,
• Level two starts to cut power to the engine to slow you down by force – but can be overridden or ignored,
• Level three is like level two only that the system now overrules you, and won’t allow the car to speed regardless of what colourful words you will use against it.

Queensland transport, which despite a massive surge in speed cameras failed miserably in reducing the state’s road toll last year, has already come out and said the system can reduce serious accidents by an enormous 20 per cent.

But wait, it gets better. The Herald Sun also quoted in its original report that an unnamed Victorian government website has gone even one step further, suggesting that almost 60 per cent of road fatalities can be cut if the system was fitted to all cars.

Previously we would say that the state governments are looking for the cheap way out to fix the road toll epidemic, but this is no cheap option. With the estimated cost of $700-$2000, the money would be far better spent introducing mandatory advanced driver training classes to improve driving skills and reiterating the road rules.

“You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Native Born Terrorists” are the target of Fed controlled SWAT teams

You can hope for a better tomorrow, but from here the future looks really fucked.

“What’s happening here is we’re building a domestic military wearing the exact same combat gear that we had in Iraq . . ."

former Marine Corps Colonel Peter Martino

In full view of an apathetic public that often drools on itself while playing with their shiny new phones, the Feds are funding and organizing an American version of the Imperial Roman Praetorian Guard. 

This new Federally directed "Terrorist Police" will be, like the now Federalized National Guard, called into service when the Feds need more boots on the ground in local cities. 

A SWAT training exercise mounted by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, and the FBI portrayed “native born” Americans carrying out a terrorist attack on Port Everglades, part of the accelerating demonization of American citizens as domestic extremists.

The drill was based around “sovereign citizens” attempting to steal a shipment of ammunition traveling through the facility by seizing hostages and planting bombs as part of their wider agenda to overthrow the government.

 

“These weren’t foreign-born America-hating terrorists. These were native-born America-hating terrorists. And they were making things difficult for the good guys,” barks a dramatic Florida Sun Sentinel report.

 

The whole spectacle was basically an opportunity for the Fort Lauderdale Police SWAT team to show off its arsenal of militarized gear, including “Two Bears — massive armored vehicles with turrets for automatic weapons fire — a beefed up front-end loader that lifted an overturned car like a toy and Hummers packed with serious firepower.”

 

The exercise ended with the seven terrorists – being played by FBI agents – “neutralized” and all the hostages rescued.

Last month, former Marine Corps Colonel Peter Martino, who was stationed in Fallujah and trained Iraqi soldiers, warned that the Department of Homeland Security is working with law enforcement to build a “domestic army,” because the Federal government is “afraid of its own citizens.”

 

Speaking in relation to a decision on whether the Concord City Council would accept a $260,000 Homeland Security grant on behalf of the Central New Hampshire Special Operations Unit to purchase a BearCat armored vehicle, Martino cautioned, “What’s happening here is we’re building a domestic military,” adding that police are now “wearing the exact same combat gear that we had in Iraq, only it was a different color,” reports Infowars News.

 

Characterization of politically motivated Americans as domestic extremists has become a familiar practice for the DHS.

 

Police State Too Much? Send in a Marine!

Peter Martino is a citizen of the State of New Hampshire. Martino is a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve who has been mobilized three times. During his military career, he commanded an infantry platoon, company, and battalion. He was also the senior U.S. adviser to an Iraqi Army brigade.

 

 

 

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The Bi-Partisan Police State
Military equipment does not buy itself.  Nor do 1984 Big Brother spying programs on the American people happen by by magic.  Both the Democrats and Republicans work together to eagerly pass laws and fully fund the massive growth of an unconstitutional and centrally controlled Police State. 

The GOP-Democrat Alliance to protect Obama on Syria

 

  

 The GOP-Democrat Alliance

The U.S. is the only democracy on earth

without an opposition party.

 

While there are some differences between the political "factions" that rule America, it is also true that both sides traditionally close ranks to protect the Elites of Washington from the prying eyes of those pesky voters back home.

Now it is leaking out that the House GOP Leadership may prevent a floor vote on Syria if it looks like Obama would be defeated.

“I just don’t believe that if defeat is certain, the House leadership will want to see a president utterly humiliated on the House floor in a public vote,” one top aide to the Republican leadership told the National Review.

Should the full Senate vote to approve an attack on Syria — as still appears somewhat likely — the battle would shift to the House.

“An attempt would be made to let the whole thing go away. I don’t think it would be done to give the GOP any extra leverage in debt-ceiling or budget negotiations — Obama isn’t the grateful type — but simply because the weakness it would demonstrate wouldn’t be good for the country,” the aide told the National Review.

Good for the country my ass.  The GOP wants to protect Obama's ass and the future ass of any GOP President to wage war.

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Dems & GOP Arm Syrian Rebels.
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We have long been conducting and unconstitutional war to overthrow the government of Syria.  The Democrat and GOP leadership is doing everything possible to protect their CIA run "Secret War" in Syria from full public view.  But detailed information about CIA directed arms shipment can be seen in media all over the world. 
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See our past stories.
THE FEDERALIST - "U.S. - Britain are arming the Islamist Syrian Rebels."
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THE FEDERALIST - "CIA smuggling arms to Syria."
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THE FEDERALIST - "WAR - Democrats & GOP push for a new war in Syria."
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THE FEDERALIST - "CIA trained Syrian rebels 'on way to battlefield'."