NP? worth reading

[Terrance]

 Byrd said, 

 "We must not allow any president to unleash the dogs of war at his
own discretion and for an unlimited period of time."
[NYT, Oct. 10. 2002]



Byrd lost the argument, as Congress ­ less than a
month before elections ­ gave Bush the powers he
demanded. Bush carried the day after tilting the
public debate with misleading arguments repudiated
even by his own intelligence services. . .

the resolution,  passed 296-to-133 in the house

passed 77-23 in the Senate 

this claim about how Bush tilted the debate and how representatives were
frightened into voting with the president because of approaching
elections is false.  Bush is the President. He doesn't vote in the
Congress. He doesn't debate in the congress. Sure, he has influence, but
we have a separation of powers. Byrd, with his very relevant copy of the
constitution in hand reminded the congress of this fact. 

It was Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Democrat from S.D., who
tilted the debate and got the thing passed with little Democratic
opposition in the Senate. And it was the democrats who also tilted the
debate and got it passed in the house. Byrd does look like a champ and
not just because his vote was the only one that anyone asked to vote on
that monstrous resolution could possibly have cast, but because next to
Al Gore and and Tom Daschle and the rest of those liars and phonies he
has convictions, he believes in what he is doing and in the government
he is a part of--the people he serves.